Helping A Hero's 2011 Gala features former first lady Laura Bush as this year's recipient of the Patriot Award. The evening will begin with a cocktail reception followed by a seated dinner and auctions, and will include opportunities for sponsors at the higher levels to have a picture taken with Mrs. Bush. 

Helping A Hero is a nonprofit organization that builds specially adapted homes for severely wounded soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the second home-building organization in the United States and the first in Texas, Helping A Hero has reconfigured homes to suit paraplegics, quadriplegics, double amputees, triple amputees, burn victims, veterans suffering from severe brain injuries and many more.