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President's Blog
200 Jobs Lift DC’s Homeless Residents Out of Poverty
Every week a steady flow of job seekers arrives at the new Wisconsin Avenue office of AimHire. Friendship Place launched the job placement program in June 2011 to respond to…
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Community
“Before Thirty” helps Young People Find Direction
Friendship Place’s AimHire program is proud to unveil Before Thirty, an innovative new project to help at-risk young people, launched in January with the hiring of Tiffini Jackson as…
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Community
Our Community Joins Together to Keep Our Neighbors Warm
By: Lynn Lewis, Friendship Place Supporter and Volunteer Perhaps it was the size 16 Docksiders, or the shiny cowboy boots, or the dozen extra large snow boots, many still bearing…
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President's Blog
America’s Homeless Children – Unseen, but Counted
By Jean-Michel Giraud President & CEO, Friendship Place Huffington Post Blogger Read this on the Huffington Post website Our education system focuses on many essential factors intended to create a…
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President's Blog
The Graying of Homelessness
“I always had a job, since I was 13,” says DC resident John Hines. But decades of hard work didn’t immunize John against homelessness. Plagued with health problems, he lost…
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Community
Help the Homeless Walks Take DC by Storm
By Seth Manfield, Friendship Place Intern When fall comes around, it’s Help the Homeless season, a time when people of all ages come together to make a lasting impact in…
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President's Blog
Why YOU Need to Unleash Your Inner Fundraiser
Most of us are raised with definite ideas about money. We’re told that asking for money is taboo and that it makes people uncomfortable. Many of us are advised to…
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President's Blog
We Can Beat Phoenix in Ending Veteran Homelessness
You might be wondering what I was doing at boot camp last week. Well, let me just say that this was a very special kind of boot camp. The Rapid…
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Community
Veteran Homelessness: “It doesn’t have to last forever.”
Written by Elisha Harig-Blaine, originally published on Citiesspeak.org on August 5, 2013 After serving in the Coast Guard, Shelley Gilbert was looking forward to spending more time with her two daughters and two…
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Your Donation Helps End Homelessness!
Your support for Friendship Place has a lasting impact. In 2023, our programs ended or prevented homelessness for 4,993 people, including 1,507 children in families and 670 veterans. We empowered 167 people experiencing or at risk of homelessness to get jobs through innovative, state-of-the-art job placement services. Make a donation today in support of our work to end homelessness. Questions? Please feel free to call our fundraising office, 202.957.7834.