The Honor Card "Moving On” raised $403,000 last year for ten homeless agencies across the state.
The annual fundraiser features paintings by William Mangum on cards sold across North Carolina, with all of the proceeds going to provide services for the homeless. With a donation of $5 or more, a person receives an Honor Card that he or she inscribes to someone they wish to “honor.” The program has raised more than $3 million since 1988.
Greensboro Urban Ministry raised the most of all the agencies in 2009 with $229,000. Elsewhere in the Triad, Crisis Control Ministry in Winston-Salem raised $48,000 and Allied Churches of Alamance County in Burlington raised $20,000. The remaining amount was donations to Urban Ministries of Wake County in Raleigh, Greenville Community Shelters in Greenville, Urban Ministries of Durham, Exodus Homes in Hickory, ABCCM Shelter Ministry in Asheville, The Hospitality House in Boone and Fayetteville Urban Ministry.
For more information about the Honor Card, call the William Mangum Fine Art Gallery at (336) 379-9200 or go to www.thehonorcard.org.