Honored at the Women's Choice Awards 2017

I was honored to be celebrated as a 'Shero" amongst seven trailblazing women at the 2017 Women's Choice Awards Show; Alicia Garza, Brittany Packnett, Carmen Perez, Dr. Knatokie Ford, Dr. Yvonne Cagle, Miki Agrawal, and Reshma Saujani.

It was a wonderful evening celebrating women coming together to forge new paths for the next generation. In the two other categories Emma Watson and Julie Taymor were celebrated among many other inspiring women. Kathy Griffin honored Sharon Stone with a combination of raw wit and warmth. Sharon is now kindly donating furniture & homewares to A Sense of Home. YES!

I was so thrilled Yolanda from A Sense of Home was able to join me and witness all of these remarkable women in one room.

Meredith Vieira was the host and spoke about the importance of the inaugural awards ceremony on the Today Show http://www.today.com/video/meredith-vieira-opens-up-about-hosting-the-women-s-choice-award-show-939532355916

An Epic Week at A Sense of Home

It has been such an epic week for A Sense of Home, I feel compelled to list the top 12 items.  Aside from creating homes for 4 young people, the below series of magical events unfolded to further advance the impact of ASOH.

1] Today a much needed and game changing donation for ASOH of $200k arrived thanks to the beautiful family who made this home creation possible.

2] Today a new donated truck was delivered to ASOH.

3] On Monday -- Prince Michael Jackson on Good Morning America talking about ASOH.

4] A Sense of Home on CBS — tomorrow. ASOH is in the 1st episode of new season of the TV series" Hidden Heroes “.

5] On Wednesday — International Women’s Day — announcement for Women’s Choice Awards… Georgie was announced as a nominee along w/ Emma Watson, Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson & Alicia Garza (founder of Black Lives Matter).

6] On Monday ASOH team presented to the the Commission for Children & Families for LA's Board of Supervisors — to passionate applause. The ASOH youth  spoke out on behalf of all aged out foster youth in Los Angeles determined to break the cycle and become leaders of sustainable change. We look forward to the commissioners & Board of Supervisors coming to a home creation to experience the magic themselves

7] After their execs experienced a home creation this week — Casper is donating new mattresses to ASOH.

8] Yolanda who is being groomed as the ASOH Exec Director (to lead her 7 staff of former foster youth) this week began the Annenberg Alchemy. Founders, George & Melissa completed a 3 day intensive at Annenberg in February.

9]  After experiencing a home creation this week — Fox Gives is partnering with ASOH

10] This week a feature length documentary on ASOH began filming.

11] This week the docs-series “Turning Point” booked a crew to film a half hour documentary on Georgie & ASOH.

12] ASOH confirmed this week that it will participate in the launch of a new groundbreaking app to help connect the youth with better support & reward them for their volunteering w/ ASOH. More soon.

Today on Steve Harvey

Today on the Steve Harvey Show at 2pm we discuss how we as a community have embraced the home creation as a way to wrap our collective arms around former foster youth to ensure their leadership skills & talents shine. ASOH Program Director, Yolanda speaks to how this is an organization run by former foster youth -- for former foster youth. Today at 2pm on NBC. 180 youth in beds in 120 homes created in only 2 years. As word has now spread, judges have begun to write court orders urging social workers to enroll their youth in ASOH. We are absolutely inundated with demand. Our very small team, with limited resources needs your help more than ever. Please donate much needed funds directly on our website or please empower others to do so by sharing this email or the CNN profile and/or LA Times. Every single dollar counts.