Community
Foundation
for
Southeast
Michigan
honors
Leadership
and
Program
Excellence
Award
Winners
DETROIT
– The
Community
Foundation
has
announced
that
Kary L.
Moss of
the ACLU
of
Michigan
was
selected
as the
recipient
of the
2018
Mariam
C.
Noland
Award
for
Nonprofit
Leadership,
and the
Coalition
on
Temporary
Shelter
(COTS)
has been
selected
as the
recipient
of the
2018
Richard
F.
Huegli
Award
for
Program
Excellence.
Both
awards
were
presented
at the
Community
Foundation’s
Board of
Trustees
June
meeting.
Named
after
the
Community
Foundation’s
first
and
current
president,
the
Mariam
C.
Noland
Award
for
Nonprofit
Leadership
recognizes
a
nonprofit
president
or CEO
in
southeast
Michigan
whose
service
exemplifies
the
importance
of
leadership
in his
or her
organization
and the
wider
nonprofit
community.
Kary L.
Moss has
served
as the
Executive
Director
of the
ACLU of
Michigan
since
1998.
Next
month,
Moss
will
join the
ACLU’s
senior
leadership
team as
the
Director
of
Affiliate
Support
&
Nationwide
Initiatives,
based in
New
York,
NY. As
Executive
Director,
Moss led
a robust
program
that
includes
many
high
impact,
important
civil
rights
initiatives
addressing
the
rights
of
children,
the
poor,
LGBT and
immigrant
communities,
women’s
rights,
voting
rights,
and
access
to a
high-quality
education.
Moss
also had
played
an
instrumental
role in
uncovering
the
Flint
water
crises
through
her
innovative
move of
hiring a
journalist
on
staff.
“Mariam
Noland
has
shown
exemplary
leadership
in
supporting
organizations
that
empower
communities,”
says
Moss. “I
am truly
honored
to be
receiving
this
award
from a
woman
who
embodies
integrity
and
possesses
the
talent
to bring
people
and
organizations
together
around a
common
goal.”
The
Richard
F.
Huegli
Award
for
Program
Excellence
identifies
a
nonprofit
that
reflects
Mr.
Huegli’s
high
standards
in human
services
programming
and
belief
in human
potential.
Huegli,
who
passed
away in
1988,
was an
integral
figure
in the
region’s
human
services
sector
for
nearly
half a
century,
spending
42 years
with
United
Community
Services
of
Metropolitan
Detroit,
now part
of the
United
Way for
Southeastern
Michigan.
He later
helped
to
establish
the
Community
Foundation
for
Southeast
Michigan
and
served
as the
Foundation’s
acting
director
in its
first
year of
existence.
Since
1982,
COTS
serves
the most
vulnerable
members
of the
Detroit
community
with a
wide
continuum
of
services,
ranging
from
outreach
and
emergency
shelter
to
permanent
housing.
All
services
are
designed
to meet
the
organization's
mission
of
alleviating
homelessness
by
empowering
people
to
achieve
self-sufficiency
and
obtain
quality,
affordable
housing.
The COTS
emergency
shelter
provides
a safe
place to
stay;
three
hot,
nutritious
meals
per day;
toiletries;
clothing;
bedding;
and
pillows
to an
estimated
1,200
individuals
annually.
It also
helps
more
than 500
families
find
permanent
supportive
housing
and
transitional
housing.
“It’s a
huge
honor to
be
selected,”
says
Cheryl
P.
Johnson,
Chief
Executive
Officer
of COTS.
“Since
1995,
the
Community
Foundation
has been
a
continued
supporter
of COTS
and our
mission
in
serving
families
without
a home
in
Detroit.
This
award
goes out
to our
staff
for all
of their
hard
work,
day in
and day
out, in
providing
excellent
housing
and
homelessness
services.”
“Both of
the
respective
winners
are well
deserved,”
says
James B.
Nicholson,
Chairman
of the
Community
Foundation
for
Southeast
Michigan.
“The
performed
by Kary
Moss and
COTS is
invaluable
to the
residents
of
southeast
Michigan.
We
respect
their
missions
and the
work
they do
to
improve
the
quality
of life
in the
region.”
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