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Awards - community improvement, help homeless, help homeless men
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About Us
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The Doe Fund and RWA have been recognized with the following honors, which are testament to its proven success thus far:
- On September 23, 2008, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research announced George McDonald as the recipient of its prestigious William E. Simon Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The award honors him for creating the innovative Ready, Willing & Able program, which has "changed the way the problem of homelessness is understood, going far beyond the provision of shelter to help people become productive, law-abiding members of society." The Manhattan Institute is renowned for its research and influence in American public policy that encourages individual responsibility.
- On April 10th, 2008, The Doe Fund's Founder and President George T. McDonald accepted the "2008 Innovator of Special Merit Award" for The Doe Fund's "political will, partnerships, and innovation in ending chronic homelessness" from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. This marks the third Presidential administration that has recognized our efforts to address the root causes of homelessness; The Doe Fund has been formally recognized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) multiple times, receiving the Community Service Excellence award from Secretary Jack Kemp in 1992, the Outstanding Community Partnership award from Secretary Henry Cisneros in 1994, and the first ever Best Practices award in 1999.
- In October 2004, George T. McDonald was selected as a winner of the New York Post "Liberty Medal" for his work on behalf of the New York City community.
- The Doe Fund's Peter Jay Sharp Center for Opportunity, which opened in December 2003, was named this year by The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce one of nine winners of the "Building Brooklyn Awards."
- In 1999, we received the first-ever "Best Practices" award from the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which celebrated the most notable and innovative work from organizations addressing the issues of homelessness, affordable housing, and economic opportunity. The Department received more than 3,000 nominations for Best Practices awards from around the country. RWA was one of 100 individuals and organizations selected to receive the honor.
- In March of 1994, at the National Housing and Community Development Conference, The Doe Fund was one of the three organizations nationwide to receive the "Outstanding Community Partnership Award" from Henry Cisneros and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- In 1992, Jack Kemp, then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services, awarded The Doe Fund the first annual "Community Service Excellence Award" on behalf of the Federal Interagency Council on the Homeless.
Beyond public recognition, however, The Doe Fund finds its greatest honors in the personal triumphs of the homeless men we help. More than 3,600 formerly homeless men have "graduated" from RWA over the years to return (substance-free and self-sufficient) to the workforce, their communities, and their families.
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