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Webinar
Serving our most vulnerable during COVID-19, Keri Thomas
Friendship Place invites you to learn more about how you have changed lives. Watch this webinar hosted by Keri Thomas, our Chief Clinical Services Officer, to learn how we’re serving our…
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Webinar
Serving Homeless Populations During COVID-19
Watch this online discussion with Sean Read, Friendship Place Chief Community Solutions Officer, to learn how our outreach and program teams have adapted services to the COVID-9 pandemic.
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Stories
Meet Lamonika
When Lamonika talks about Friendship Place she begins by describing the people there who have helped her: They listen, she says. They ask questions. They give her options. They offer…
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Stories
Meet Stewart
Tweet This year Stewart and Linda Dowell are celebrating their 36th wedding anniversary, another stop on a long and memorable journey together. Stewart came from a family of ten in…
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Stories
Meet Nikiah
Nikiah describes her boys as “loving and gentle,” while admitting they’ve taught her the meaning of patience. Both boys face challenges—Ricardo, 13, with autism and Rico, 12, with ADHD and…
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Community
Some Impressions of the 2019 Point-in-Time Count
By Charles N Herrick, Friendship Place’s AimHire program volunteer and former board member. It’s a little after 11:00 PM on a chilly, drizzly January night. Monica and I are walking…
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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
AimHire & Get Hired
Can you graduate at Friendship Place? You bet you can! In March, at a ceremony complete with blue and white balloons and cupcakes, 28 participants in Friendship Place’s AimHire program…
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President's Blog
Testimony: Job Placement & More
On March 01, 2019, Friendship Place President & CEO Jean Michel Giraud gave the following testimony the before the District of Columbia Committee on Human Services and Committee on Housing…
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Author: Yimka Odebode
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.