Juliette Fowler Communities. Photo by Kathy Tran.
A staff member at Juliette Fowler Communities has been selected to receive the George Washington Medal of Honor, presented by the Dallas Area Chapter of Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.
Lisa Mumford, the director of children and youth services, has worked at JFC for eight years. She manages foster and adoption programs, the Ebby House, The Youth Support Center and the Grandparents as Parents program. Mumford also leads the intergenerational task force.
“Serving the children and youth through the Ebby House and the Youth Support Center at Juliette Fowler Communities is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Mumford says in a statement. “The work is a fulfilling and meaningful part of my life — both personally and professionally. To join the ranks of many Dallas community members previously honored shows I am in the company of good people doing good work.”
More than 57,000 citizens across the country have received this award, which was first presented to 200 people by General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1949.
Lisa Mumford. Photo courtesy of Juliette Fowler Communities.
The program was intended to thank individuals whose works or words “reflect the best of the American spirit of volunteerism by offering constructive solutions to contemporary problems,” according to the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge website.
The George Washington Medal of Honor Award is given to people in several categories. Mumford is receiving it in the community – adult and youth category, which is for “programs by groups or individual who ‘go above and beyond the call of duty’ on a local, regional or national level which promotes good works and serve their communities on an ongoing, day-to-day basis.”
Mumford will receive the honor Nov. 10 at the Museum of Biblical Art.
