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2025 Healing on the Fly Gala

On October 8th, 2025, Project Healing Waters hosted the 2025 Healing on the Fly Gala at The Plaza in New York City, celebrating 20 years of healing America’s Veterans through the therapeutic art of fly fishing. Over $700,000 was raised to advance Project Healing Waters’ mission.

2025 Journey of Healing Award Recipient

2025 Journey of Healing Award Recipient
Ed Nicholson
Founder of Project Healing Waters

2025 Gala Speakers

Our community exists and is supported near and far
by uniform service members, by thousands of dedicated PHW volunteers, by Veteran participants, unique in each healing journey – by family, family by blood and family by love, our tribe – over miles and years of connection, by generous donors and sponsors who support the PHW mission and ensure our permanence and continuity.
Rear Admiral Cynthia A. Kuehner, U.S. Navy (Ret), Chair, PHW Board of Trustees
If not me, then who?
Who will stand up and go, if not me….Young Americans today, will stand and will fight.
LtGen Lawrence Nicholson, USMC (Ret.), Military Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker
Project Healing Waters saved my life.
I would not be here without the amazing people in this program, And you, the amazing people that make this program possible. Since joining the program, I have been a great firefighter-next in line for promotion, my marriage is thriving, my children love me and know that I am there for them.
John Lynch, Veteran Participant (USMC)
What if we could – each of us – know that tomorrow, our actions would save one more Veteran on the edge of despair.
John “Saint” Langford, PHW President and CEO
What if every single one of us in this room knew that we’d have an encounter – tomorrow – with a Veterans struggling to get across the bridge – or even just to find it in the first place? What if every single one of us, walking home from work, or in a park, or in your neighborhood, encountered a Veteran in need. A young man, young woman, perhaps older – but all the same. Sitting alone.Their head hung down in their hands. Defeated and done. What if you knew that you could walk up to thatVeteran, put your arm around their shoulder, put a fly rod in their hand, and tell them they have a community in Project Healing Waters that cares about them? What if you did all of that tomorrow and knew that you saved that person’s life?
Thank you to Adam Fliss and Sophia Hudson for their tireless and inspiring leadership of the 2025 Healing on the Fly Gala Committee
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