Carmela Lunt, President of Community Hope, was honored yesterday by Bank of America. Through the Bank’s National Excellence Initiative, Ms. Lunt was recognized for her vision in sustaining the good work needed to strengthen and grow our communities.
At an awards ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, she received the Bank’s Local Heroes Award and a $5,000 monetary award for the charity she founded in 1985. Pictured here, Ann M. Limberg (right), President of Bank of America New Jersey, congratulates Ms. Lunt and her husband, Harry Lunt, on receiving the Local Heroes Award.
Ms. Lunt and a group of family members of young adults with mental illness founded Community Hope twenty-one years ago and established the first community residence for five young adults in recovery from mental illness a year later. Today, Community Hope has evolved into one of the largest residential programs in New Jersey. The organization offers a continuum of services that aim to assist individuals with mental illness and substance abuse to continue their recovery and return to an active and productive life in the community. The organization’s Hope for Veterans Transitional Housing Program for homeless veterans received a national Community Partnership Award from the Mutual of America Foundation and the Governor’s Excellence in Housing Award in 2005, one year after opening its doors to seventy-five homeless veterans.
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