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Inviting one and all to the Annual NCH Awards Dinner and Auction – celebrating achievements in advocacy for our unhoused neighbors and raising funds to keep doing the work!

Over the last year, we have made significant progress in mobilizing people with lived experience to combat the costly practice of jailing, fining, and arresting people who are forced to experience unsheltered homelessness due to the lack of shelter.

Come celebrate our awardee advocates and organizations who have made significant contributions to lifting up the first hand experience of those who have been unhoused:

Western Regional Advocacy Project
Dana Woolfolk, former
Jeff Olivet, former Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
The Honorable Cori Bush, Former U.S. Representative (MO)
Sponsor awardees: The Oak Foundation, Melville Charitable Trust, Progressive Insurance Foundation, NFL Foundation, Newrez

Many nonprofits are experiencing federal funding cutbacks and uncertainty due to changes that strain resources targeted at combating homelessness. The Executive Order signed a week ago will have further disastrous affects for our neighbors forced to sleep outdoors. Our role as the nation’s first homeless advocacy organization is more important than ever.

Please help support our critical work at the upcoming NCH Awards Dinner, which will take place at the Woodmore Country Club, just outside the Capitol beltway, on August 8, 2025, from 5:30 to 8 PM. Our guest MC will be the Honorable Terrence McAuliffe, former Governor of Virginia. Come to hear national recording artist, Shelton Cornelius Price, and enjoy the opportunity to connect, celebrate, and learn more about the vital work NCH and our partners do to address homelessness nationwide.

If you cannot attend, we encourage you to sponsor the event or contribute to helping a member of our speaker’s bureau or someone experiencing homelessness in your community attend. Tickets can be purchased by following this link: https://bit.ly/NCHawards.

Your involvement, in any capacity, will help amplify our mission and make a tangible impact on the lives of countless individuals. We look forward to seeing you there!

A special thanks to our generous sponsors:

During a time when our nation needs it most, Executive Chef Cardie Mortimer wants to help us find unity in the kitchen. The culinary therapy cookbook, Keep on Cookin’ contains 280 pages full of recipes and stories about life, love, and laughter. “Keep on Cookin’ was written intentionally to bring families and friends back to the heart of the home, the kitchen.” – Executive Chef Cardie Mortimer.

Executive Chef Cardie Mortimer graduated from the New Orleans Culinary Institute in 1978 and has received numerous teaching and culinary certifications of the past 42 years. In New Jersey alone, he has served as a popular instructor at King’s Cooking Studios in Short Hills, Adult School of Montclair, the Adult school of Continuing Education in West Caldwell, and was the 1995 Master Teaching Professional at Chef’s Lab in Montclair.

Over the years, Chef Cardie has acted as an advisor, sous chef, and Executive Chef in many northern New Jersey restaurants and in Birmingham, Alabama, and Savannah GA. He was also a guest chef in two Emeril Lagasse restaurants in Las Vegas. Some of the world-class chefs Cardie has worked alongside include Robert Irvine, Neil Dohery (Cisco Foods), Emeril Lagasse, Paul Prudehomme, Sean Roe, Dana D’Anzi Tuohy, and Kevin Belton (New Orleans School of Cooking).

Celebrity chef Maria Liberati describes Cardie as a chef that cooks with soul. Outside of the kitchen, Chef Cardie believes giving back is another great way for us to come together. His relationship with an unhoused man named Charlie inspired him to gift all proceeds from Keep on Cookin’ to support the National Coalition for the Homeless, and other organizations working to end homelessness.