Holiday Honor Card "Everybody Needs Somebody"
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Homelessness is a challenge for nearly every community. The homeless need emergency care, affordable housing, health care, education and spiritual encouragement. The Honor Card program is an annual campaign to raise awareness and funds to meet the needs of the homeless.
In 1989 artist William Mangum was asked to lend his artistic and publishing assistance to Greensboro Urban Ministry’s struggling fundraiser, The Honor Card program. He created an image called Not Forgotten. It was warmly embraced and sold 5,000 cards, raising a record setting $52,000 for various outreach programs.
During the Holiday Season, Honor Cards are available for a minimum donation of $5 each. Individuals who purchase Honor Cards send them to friends and family, indicating that they have been honored by a donation to a local outreach agency.
This year's card is titled, Everybody Needs Somebody.
Personally touched by the needs of the homeless, Bill has been an advocate, donating his artistic skills and publishing gifts to make The Honor Card program one of the most well run and leveraged charitable programs in the country. Within each beautiful painting is the subtle image and story. As the Honor Card program reaches its 22nd anniversary, over $3,000,000 has been raised to support homeless agencies in cities across North Carolina.
See Bill Mangum and The Honor Card Featured on NBC News.
Order cards online, or email Deanna Kleiss or call 919-682-0538 ext. 135.
Read the article in The Herald Sun.
