God's Love We Deliver Hosts 8th Annual Golden Hearts Awards

More than 700 guests attended God's Love We Deliver's Eighth Annual Golden Heart Awards on Thursday, October 16, making it the largest and most successful event in the New York non-profit's 29-year history.

Anna Wintour, Cond� Nast Artistic Director and Vogue Editor-in-Chief, was presented with the Michael Kors Award for Outstanding Community Service by fashion designer and God's Love board member Michael Kors.

In his introduction of Wintour, Kors stunned the audience when he announced a gift in her honor for all of her amazing contributions to God's Love. The gift funds "The Anna Wintour Volunteer Center," to be built in the new God's Love headquarters. Kors' earlier gift to the agency will name the new God's Love building The Michael Kors Building.

"The amazing thing about Anna is her unwavering willingness to get involved in a cause she believes in, to make an impact, to find answers and to make sure all those around her are just as focused," said Kors. "I've never met anyone who has more of a roll up your sleeves and find a solution kind of attitude than Anna, and God's Love is a roll up your sleeves and find a solution kind of organization."

In addition to Wintour, Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation, received the Golden Heart Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented by Academy Award-winning actress and United Nations World Food Programme Honorary Partner Halle Berry.

Kors also presented Richard E. Feldman, Attorney at Sonnenschein, Sherman & Deutsch LLP and a longtime volunteer of God's Love, with the Golden Heart Award for Outstanding Volunteerism.

The evening included a moving video tribute to past honoree and former God's Love Board member Joan Rivers.

The sold-out gala, which was held at Spring Studios in Manhattan, featured a welcome from famed singer-songwriter, actress, and comedian Bette Midler, dinner, awards presentation and a live auction. This year's dinner was co-chaired by Blaine Trump, Halle Berry, Michael Kors and John Idol. U.S. Senator from New York Kirsten Gillibrand served as honorary dinner co-chair.

Attendees included Anna Wintour, Halle Berry, Blake Lively, Michael Kors, Bette Midler, Leslie Moonves, Carolyn Murphy, Nicola Peltz, Jaime King, Gigi Hadid, Julie Chen, Anja Rubik, Sasha Knezevic, Hilary Rhoda, Chanel Iman, Daria Strokous, Jenny Slate, Bee Schaffer, Laura Love, Aerin Lauder, Blaine Trump, Lynda Carter, Brad Peltz, Vera Wang, Tory Burch, Ariana Rockefeller, John Demsey, Margaret Russell, Vicente Wolf, Bruce Weber and Nan Bush, John Idol, Amanda Freitag, Alana Zimmer, Grace Mahary, Julia Frauche, Juliana Schurig, Ton Heukels, Hedvig Palm, Amanda Wellsh, Manuela Frey, Josephine Skriver, Madison Headrick.

The Golden Heart Awards are presented annually by God's Love to honor the important contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations to the organization's cause. Funds raised at the event help ensure that no person in the metropolitan area suffers the dual crises of hunger and life-altering illness.

Past recipients include Michael Kors, Ryan Murphy, Philippe Dauman, Calvin Klein, Christine Quinn, Harry Slatkin, Joan Rivers, "7th on Sale", Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, M�A�C Cosmetics/M�A�C AIDS Fund, Prudential Douglas Elliman, Altria Group, Inc., Carolina Herrera and our volunteers Jackie Fierstein, Roz Gilbert, Ed Prostak, Evan Schwartz, 25 Years of Volunteers, Cindy Little and Jeff Gates & Mike Moran.

God's Love is the New York metropolitan area's leading provider of life-sustaining meals and nutritional counseling for people living with severe illnesses. Begun as an HIV/AIDS service organization, today God's Love provides for people living with more than 200 individual diagnoses. God's Love cooks and home delivers the specific, nutritious meals a client's severe illness and treatment so urgently require. Meals are individually tailored for each client by one of our Registered Dietitians, and all clients have access to unlimited nutrition counseling. God's Love supports families by providing meals for the children and senior caregivers of its clients. All of the agency's services are provided free of charge, and in its history of more than 29 years, God's Love We Deliver has never had a waiting list.