{"id":11815,"date":"2022-01-13T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/?p=11815"},"modified":"2025-01-23T17:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:45:52","slug":"heather-boone-wins-the-usa-today-best-of-humankind-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/heather-boone-wins-the-usa-today-best-of-humankind-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Boone wins the USA TODAY Best of Humankind Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Heather Boone wins the USA TODAY Best of Humankind Awards Person of the Year for improving her community&#8217;s access to shelter, food<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/humankind\/2021\/12\/09\/heather-boone-monroe-michigan-wins-humankind-person-year\/8820239002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/humankind\/2021\/12\/09\/heather-boone-monroe-michigan-wins-humankind-person-year\/8820239002\/\">USA TODAY<\/a> NETWORK Ventures staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastor Heather Boone was placed in a small church in Monroe, Michigan, over a decade ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After three years in the community, she and her husband decided they wanted to stay in Monroe and start their own church, Oaks of Righteousness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they went to look at the building, a homeless man was sleeping outside the doors. The building was a warming shelter at the time.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was thinking, wow, I&#8217;m taking this man&#8217;s home away,&#8221; Boone said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to do that.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So they kept the shelter open, and eventually Boone and her husband moved in to raise money to buy a bigger building. That grew into&nbsp;Oaks Village, which is now a food pantry, clothes closet, soup kitchen, free childcare center, free medical clinic and a nonprofit grocery store, in addition to the shelter.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the kindness Boone has shown her community, she was named the USA TODAY Best of Humankind Awards Person of the Year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There is no one road to homelessness,&#8221; she said during the show. &#8220;These are people just like you. We are all just a few paychecks away from being in this same predicament.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win was announced during USA TODAY&#8217;s Best of Humankind Awards, hosted by\u00a0Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of\u00a0<em>TODAY with Hoda and Jenna<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2021 Best of Humankind Awards\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzhGCUaChTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/humankind\/2021\/12\/09\/heather-boone-monroe-michigan-wins-humankind-person-year\/8820239002\/\" 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