2024 PATRIOT AWARDS GALA – FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
At Mercer Oaks Golf Course
Next month on Friday, September 13, 2024 we will present our City of Angels Patriot Awards Gala at Mercer Oaks Golf Course. It is a great venue, but Mercer Oaks it is not a big venue so tickets are limited! If you attended our 2023 Gala we want you back and we promise all the fun, food and refreshments that you enjoyed then will return. As a matter of fact, we invite you to bring a friend! If you missed last year and are contemplating attending, just speak to Kevin at 609-731-9166 and you will become a believer. We are a 501(c)(3) and tax deductible.
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FR. DANIEL CAHILL
Invocation
CITY OF ANGELS 2024 PATRIOT AWARDS
Given each year to volunteers who provide an immense amount of time,
generous contributions and sincere unrequitable volunteerism.
Providing endless time without the expectation of anything but help for others.
CARL CORSO
Volunteer of the Year Award
(Posthumously)
DIVISION 10 AOH JOE CAHILL / LAOH MATHAIR GAEL
Community Giving Award
Presidents Michael Rhodes -AOH / Jacoba Kenna -LAOH
WARRIOR DOWN VETERANS
Veteran Advocacy Award
Jon DeLisa, Tom Nelson, Joe Herrity, Greg Procopio, Santo Cerminaro, Peter Imbimbo, Brian Hitt, Kevin McAdam, Jesse Irizarry, Michael Stradford
2024 PATRIOT AWARDS SPONSORS
At any Gala ticket sales do not generate all the funds necessary for a non-profit to operate, as the real fundraising comes from our loyal sponsors. Unimaginable in today’s economy, we even lowered our Gala ticket price from $125 last year to $90 for 2024. So if you become a sponsor now, you will help City of Angels help others! Patriot Awards sponsor opportunities are varied from a $100 patron to our $5000 15-Year Celebration sponsor. We even provide an opportunity for you to donate any amount of your choosing with our Patriot Awards Challenge above. To become a sponsor just click the icon below.
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GALA FUN
Hole-in-One Challenge / Corn Hole Challenge / Cigar Tent
RAISING FUNDS FOR A GOOD CAUSE
Special Event…yes, you are seeing a hole-in-one contest!
Our Hole-in-One Contest is returning in 2024. While enjoying refreshments and cigars on the portico, attendees try their hand at a Hole-in-One contest. Yes, they put down their glass and picked up their sand wedge as they hit from the portico to the 9th green. You do not have to be a golf pro or even a scratch golfer to help raise money for our veterans therapies as they try to win a new Honda Pilot XL from Hamilton Honda while supporting a worthy cause!
Corn Hole Challenge…New for 2024!
To increase the fun we are adding a Corn Hole Challenge. Whether a corn hole pro or never tossed a bean bag, everyone will have an opportunity at the toss. Help COA raise funds and win smart tv in the process! How is your aim?
Cigar Tent…top quality complimentary cigars!
Sometimes you are at the best event, but you just feel like something is missing? Not at the Patriot Awards Gala! After enjoying a whole bunch of great food, relax on the portico in a lounge chair surrounded by the best of friends and add your favorite refreshment with a complimentary quality cigar. Now, take in a great evening…because, it doesn’t get any better then this!
WHY DOES CITY OF ANGELS FUNDRAISE ?
City of Angels NJ, Inc. was formed when Maryann and Kevin Meara, after losing their son KC to a heroin overdose on June 30, 2008, answered the pleas for help from KC’s friends and their families. COA was incorporated in 2009 as a 501(c)3 non-profit and has never charged for their family services. They quickly learned that you need funding to survive as a non-profit, so there were tee shirt and hoodie sales. Then came the monetary requests from kids who became addicted and the requests were for everything from sober living, to cell phones to food. That’s when they learned that “mom and pop” non-profits are pretty much on their own as they are generally overlooked for government funding. Over our sixteen years City of Angels, like most small non-profits, has existed without federal, state or county funding. Even when government funding is released in the form of American Rescue Plan and Opioid Settlement Funding, which is directed towards services these non-profits provide, it generally goes back to government programs or large large well-funded agencies! We have a saying in our “mom-and-pop” organization community…”broken, but not defeated” and so COA will continue to petition government officials to direct their funding to where it is most needed and does the most good. Though we were overlooked for county ARP funding, the State of NJ will receive $1billion in Opioid Settlements over the next eighteen years and it is our hope that COA, in addition to our fellow non-profits formed by parents who lost kids to this epidemic, share in that funding! COA is committed to serving our community and that is why we have fundraisers! Please donate…
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The Fr. Vincent R. Capodanno Veterans Research Therapeutics is for veterans…
One mission of the Patriot Awards Gala is to raise funds for COA’s newly introduced Fr. Vincent R. Capodanno Veteran’s Research Therapeutics. Therapeutics are a key influencer for  your well-being. Through brain and wellness therapeutics COA will drive advances in and access to research and integrative/functional therapies to address the ravages that mental health and substance use disorders has had on our veterans. Keeping with the service and sacrifice of Fr. Capodanno no veteran is denied access due to status, religion or race.
Born of our Warrior Down -No Vet Left Behind program, no veteran will ever receive a bill from Fr. Vincent’s. COA believes that therapeutics, through initiatives like integrative therapies is the missing link to addressing mental health and substance use disorders. When COA started in 2008, relapse was inconvenient, but now relapse is deadly. So it’s not rocket science that if recovery can be extended, relapse can be prevented. All this, with a concentration on neurogenesis, as we hope to heal the brain. We are hoping to create this environment through a comprehensive wellness center.
If you have any questions you can email kevinmeara@cityofangelsnj.org
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