Throughout her distinguished career, Michalle has led some of the region’s most respected nonprofit organizations, including Ronald McDonald House Northern Nevada, SafeQuest Solano, Child Haven, and the Sierra Association of Foster Families. Her experience spans strategic leadership, fundraising, community partnerships, and advocacy, all centered on improving the lives of children and families.

As Serving Our Kids continues to grow, Michalle’s leadership comes at an exciting time. With our expansion to provide more than 6,000 weekend meal bags each week to food-insecure children across the Las Vegas Valley, she will help guide the organization into its next chapter of service and impact.

“I am deeply honored to join Serving Our Kids Foundation and to work alongside a team so passionately dedicated to making a meaningful difference in the lives of children and families,” Michalle said. “I look forward to expanding our reach so that every food-insecure child throughout the Las Vegas Valley has something to eat on the weekends.”

Board Chairman Gregory Hogan shared his confidence in the Foundation’s future, “Michalle’s breadth of experience, her passion for mission-driven work, and her remarkable record of results make her the ideal leader to take Serving Our Kids Foundation into its next chapter.”

Please join us in welcoming Michalle Hoehn to the Serving Our Kids family. We are excited for the future and confident that, under her leadership, we will continue to expand our reach and strengthen our community partnerships.

At Serving Our Kids, we believe the strongest partnerships are built by people who don’t just tell the story, they become part of it.

This summer, we were proud to welcome KTNV Channel 13 as one of our newest community partners. Their team rolled up their sleeves during a Day of Service, packing an incredible 3,000 weekend meal bags for local children facing food insecurity. In just a few hours, they helped ensure thousands of students will have nutritious meals to take home over the weekend.

But their impact didn’t stop there.

Following their volunteer event, Channel 13 shared our mission with viewers across Southern Nevada through a featured news story, helping raise awareness about childhood hunger and inspiring others to get involved. By combining volunteerism with the power of local media, KTNV is helping us reach more families, more volunteers, and more supporters who can make a difference.

As Executive Director Michalle Hoehn shared during the interview, “We’re fighting childhood food insecurity in our county, and we depend on partners like Channel 13 to get us there.”

The partnership was equally meaningful to the KTNV team.

Following the event, Vice President & General Manager John Cook shared, “We are so proud to partner with Serving Our Kids and help spread the word about your great work.”

We extend our heartfelt thanks to the entire KTNV Channel 13 team for donating their time, sharing their talents, and using their platform to shine a light on the issue of childhood hunger. We are excited to build on this partnership and continue working together to ensure more children throughout Southern Nevada have the food they need to learn, grow, and succeed.

Welcome to the Serving Our Kids family, Channel 13!

The campaign began with Diazo’s pledge to match your donations, dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000, and double their impact. But so many of our SOK Crusaders responded that Diazo increased their matching pledge to $15,000, with a new goal of raising $30,000 to help feed food-insecure elementary and middle school children in Clark County.

“We didn’t want to simply write a check,” said Laura Long, Diazo’s Founder and CEO.
“We wanted to create momentum and make an immediate, measurable impact on the children who need it most.”

Thanks to you, we received $16,653 in donations during the campaign. Diazo’s matching contribution brought the grand total to $33,306. That’s an incredible result. But what does this mean for the children SOK serves?

Your $16,653 Donations +

Diazo’s $16,653 Match =

$33,306 In Total Donations.

$33,306 = 12,336 Meal Bags

For The Children We Serve

Diazo provides comprehensive investment, retirement and multi-generational wealth planning services. And they’re committed to strengthening the Southern Nevada community through purposeful leadership, philanthropy and strategic partnership.

Diazo has been a long-time SOK supporter. They have provided invaluable financial donations, donated furniture for our offices, and sponsored key fundraising events. Their team volunteers to create weekend meal bags and deliver them to our local schools.

“Serving Our Kids is deeply grateful to the Diazo team for everything they do to help us fight child hunger in our community,” said SOK CEO Laurie Tanakaya. “Their generosity and commitment gives me great confidence that we will eventually win this fight.”