Month: May 2019

  • President's Blog

    2019 Friends & Neighbors Breakfast Speech

    Good Morning, I’m Jean-Michel Giraud, President & CEO of Friendship Place. Welcome to our Friends & Neighbors Breakfast. We are so honored that Council Member Mary Cheh has not only…

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    • Stories

      Meet Jasmine

      A car accident in 2018 left Jasmine with serious injuries. “With a broken leg, I couldn’t be homeless anymore,” she says. Her only option was a shelter. “That’s where I…

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      • Stories

        Meet Greta

        Greta heard about Friendship Place the way many homeless people do, by word of mouth. In Greta’s case, it was from a girlfriend sitting next to her on a Metro…

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        • Stories

          Meet Maisha Pinkard

          I’m Maisha Pinkard, and for the past six years, I have been a proud member of theFriendship Place team, serving now as the Director of our Drop-in Welcome Center on…

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