VA Mortgage Center.com Honored at NCHV Annual Conference
VA Mortgage Center.com was recently named a “Corporate Partner of the Year” for 2008 at the National Coalition for Homeless Veteran’s (NCHV) annual conference and membership meeting, held in Washington, D.C. in late June. We have been honored to work with Cheryl and the folks at the NCHV in supporting their programs through our employee donation program.
If you haven’t heard of their organization before – please visit their site. There are many charities that help support military families and Veteran’s causes, but the NCHV stands out as one of the best. That’s why we choose to work with them.
Our company was represented at the conference by our Director of Community Involvement and Charitable Partnerships. Here is his personal recap of the experience in D.C.:
I recently got to visit Washington, D.C. to accept an award from the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans on behalf of our company, VA Mortgage Center.com. The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans has done wonders this year in fighting the homeless epidemic amongst our nation’s Veterans and will continue to make great strides to help these individuals who served our country proudly.
There was a guest speaker at the dinner named Urban Miyares. He is a Vietnam Veteran who was blinded and multi-disabled who overcame disabilities to begin many businesses and founder of the Disabled Business Persons Association. He spoke about helping the homeless veterans become self-sufficient by using their natural entrepreneurial abilities. He warned of letting these individuals take on everyday business activities too soon. As he has seen many of these people fall into the trap of survival mode and not thinking of the future as their future is now.
There were also many other awards given that evening including an award to Mark Johnston, the Deputy Assistant Director of the HUD. He was recognized for his contributions to helping bring about an increase of Housing Choice Vouchers to a total of 20,000. There was even an appearance by Rep. Al Green. It was on that day that the bill he sponsored, H.R. 4161, passed through the House Financial Services Committee. The Bill, named the Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act, proposes that a pilot program be set up through the HUD to provide assistance to private NPOs to expand support for low-income veteran families.
I was honored to have been selected to attend and invite you to educate yourself about the great programs the NCHV help run.
