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Lighthouse held our 2023 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, September 12th at Kirk in the Hills. The event gave us the opportunity to share news about what Lighthouse has been up to and to present awards to some of the amazing partners that help make our work possible. Thank you to everyone who joined us this year and everyone who has supported our mission of building equitable communities that alleviate poverty. We could not do this important work without you!<\/p>\n

Below is a full list of our 2023 winners.<\/p>\n

Municipality Award –\u00a0City of Pontiac
\nCorporate Partner Award –\u00a0Williams International
\nCongregation Partner Award – St. Regis Catholic Church
\nCommunity Partner Award –\u00a0Gleaners Community Food Bank
\nOutstanding Service Award – Matt Lee
\nVolunteers of the Year – Susan Betterly and Jim Berta
\nFoundation Partner Award –\u00a0McGregor Fund
\nMission Possible Award – Erica and Jeff Lawson<\/p>\n

We were also able to honor some of our past board members at the event, including Pastor Manisha Dostert, LaMontre Harris, Apostle John Harvey, William Mott, Jr., and Colleen Ochoa Peters, as well as our past Board Chair, Richard Lewnau.<\/p>\n

Check out the video recap of our event here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":6541,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news_categories":[121],"class_list":["post-6540","news-items","type-news-items","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_categories-events"],"acf":{"photo_gallery":{"gallery":[[]]}},"yoast_head":"\nAnnual Meeting 2023 - Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/annual-meeting-2023\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Annual Meeting 2023 - Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lighthouse held our 2023 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, September 12th at Kirk in the Hills. 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