Metro Area Continuum of Care for the Homeless
MACCH Annual Recognition Event
Beginning in 2015, MACCH annually recognizes our members and partners who are dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness locally. During this prestigious event, MACCH presents awards commemorating the hard work and dedication of staff, agencies, and volunteers striving to prevent and end homelessness and celebrates our collective, continuum-wide successes.
2017 Recognition Event award recipients are as follows:
- Inspiring Practices: Douglas County Housing Authority
- Volunteer of the Year: Ron Hernandez, Moving Veterans Forward
Brandy Gustoff, Omaha Home for Boys
- Community Partner of the Year: Gary Hankins, Community Alliance
- Servant Leadership: Mike Saklar, Siena/Francis House (retired)
View our 2017 Recognition Event photo album!
2016 Award Recipients:
- Inspiring Practices: MACCH Homeless Review Team (HRT)
- Volunteer of the Year: Dan Brabec, Stephen Center
- Community Partner of the Year: Together, Inc.
- Servant Leadership: Jeannette Winkler, The Salvation Army
2015 Award Recipients:
- Inspiring Practices: SOAR Project, Community Alliance
- Volunteer of the Year: Dave Harvey, Heartland Family Service
- Community Partner of the Year: Project Everlast, Nebraska Children and Families Foundation
- Lifetime Achievement: Del Bomberger, Stephen Center
MACCH News Releases
"MACCH to conduct annual Point-In-Time count of homeless" (Jan. 11, 2019)
MACCH and our Partners in the News
"Lincoln sees homeless population reduced by half since 2012" AP (May 14, 2018)
"Editorial: A local, federal effort to provide more help for homeless" Omaha World Herald (January 19, 2018)
"Several Omaha area agencies aiding homeless get an increase in HUD grant money" Omaha World Herald (January 15, 2018)
"Memorial remembers homeless people who died in Bluffs" The Daily Nonpareil (December 22, 2017)
"Omaha Metro shelters honor the homeless who have died" WOWT (December 21, 2017)
"'Homelessness doesn’t have to look a certain way': Portrait project during Creighton event puts faces, stories to a community often unseen" Omaha World-Herald (April 10, 2017)
"Volunteers comb Omaha metro area to count the homeless" Omaha World-Herald (January 26, 2017)
"Counting the homeless" KETV (January 24, 2017)
"The man across the table" Omaha World-Herald (June 5, 2016)
(May 23, 2016)
"Federal program awards $1.4 million to aid area's homeless" The Daily Nonpareil (May 18, 2016)
"Homeless teens in Omaha part of national study led by UNL" KETV (April 14, 2016)
"Community leaders address veteran homelessness" WOWT (March 30, 2016)
"Elected officials to meet with landlords, aim to end veteran homelessness" KETV (March 28, 2016)
"$6 million grant aims to help Nebraska fight homelessness" Omaha World-Herald (March 14, 2016)
"3 students organize benefit, silent auction to benefit area homeless" Omaha World-Herald (February 12, 2016)
"Scouring counties and counting the homeless who won't come in from the cold" Omaha World-Herald (January 29, 2016)
"Winter proves hard times for the homeless" Omaha News (November 30, 2015)
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