The Washington Club honored GMC with a Community Service Award at their annual Have a Heart Luncehon on Valentine’s Day. We are grateful to Arden Batch of the Club and as an active member of Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown for nominating us.

Turnabout is fair play in these sorts of events, and GMC surprised Arden with our own community service award for her work with a homeless individual, Keith. As much as we try to connect with people, sometimes it takes a different approach. Arden reached out to Keith and connected him with a core service agency, eventually getting him into housing. She wins our community service award.

GMC’s consulting psychiatrist, Ron Koshes, gave the keynote speech entitled “The History of Homelessness.” We also debuted the informational video about GMC that Nelson Cuellar, a local filmmaker, made for us.

We are grateful to all of our friends who took time out of their busy day to join us. It was a great event. You can see more pictures of the event in our Have a Heart album on Facebook.

Will you be our valentine?

This year, The Washington Club will be honoring GMC with The Washington Club Community Service Award for our work in the community. Join us at the historic Patterson House on Valentine’s Day for their Have a Heart Luncheon.

The Have a Heart Luncheon will be held on February 14, 2012 starting with a reception at 11:30am and a lunch at noon. It will take place in The Patterson House, located at 15 Dupont Circle NW.

To RSVP for the event, fill out this registration form or register online here. For more details, check out our Have a Heart Luncheon event page.