Housing Works Announces Honorees For Annual Groundbreaker Awards

NEW YORK, March 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Housing Works announced today their 2019 Groundbreaker Award honorees and chairs. The evening celebrates members of the design and philanthropic community who’ve made impressive contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS and homelessness. Housing Works will hold its seventh annual Groundbreaker Awards Dinner at the Metropolitan Pavilion on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. This year’s honorees include:

Portia de Rossi, Founder & CEO, General Public
Inaugural Recipient of the Design Entrepreneur Award
Presented by: Cliff Fong, interior designer, consultant and creative director at Galerie Half

Jim Shreve, President and CEO of BACCARAT, North America
Presented by: Anthony Cenname, VP Consumer Advertising Dow Jones & Publisher of WSJ. Magazine

Darren Walker, President of Ford Foundation
Presenter to be announced.

Opening remarks by Don Lemon, Anchor, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon.

Dinner Chairs include; Douglas Friedman, Sandra Lee, Charlotte Moss, and Jeffrey Seller & Josh Lehrer.

The Groundbreaker Awards comes one day before Housing Works’ popular Design on a Dime Opening Night Reception on April 25^th, which is now in its 15th year. This charity benefit brings together over 70 top interior designers who create unique vignettes all from donated merchandise coming, collectively, from over 300 charitable home décor brands. Proceeds from Design on a Dime and the Groundbreaker Awards Dinner go toward the nonprofit’s supportive housing, lifesaving services, and advocacy efforts to bring social justice to marginalized New Yorkers and people living with HIV/AIDS.

The event is sponsored by; Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., BACCARAT, and Benjamin Moore.

About Housing Works:
Housing Works is a healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Our mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain our efforts.

For more information, please contact Katherine Oakes at K.Oakes@housingworks.org or 718.408.6574. Visit https://www.housingworks.org/events/design-on-a-dime for more details on Design on a Dime 2019; for more information on Housing Works visit housingworks.org. Join Housing Works on Facebook. Follow Housing Works on Twitter and Instagram.

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