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A Big Birthday Gift for our 30 Years
By Helene Vissiere “I would have never imagined how Friendship Place would flourish. It has changed the sense of the possible,” Jean Duff, one of the cofounders, said during the…
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Valley Place! Learn About our Newest Program
Friendship Place held this webinar about Valley Place, its newest facility and program for people experiencing homelessness. The online event took place on January 11, 2022 and featured the program’s…
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Friendship Place and Peter Edelman – Discussion on Poverty
Friendship Place welcomed Georgetown University Law Center Professor Peter Edelman, author of Not a Crime to Be Poor, to discuss how we, as a nation, treat those suffering from poverty….
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Mayor Bowser at the One-Year Anniversary of the Brooks
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser joined Friendship Place during the one-year anniversary celebration of the Brooks Short-Term facility for families experiencing homelessness. Speakers during the event also included the Brooks family,…
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Take a Tour of the Brooks
The Brooks is a new Short-Term Family Housing facility and a new program at Friendship Place that serves families experiencing homelessness. Take a tour! Click here to learn more about…
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Performing Street Outreach During COVID-19
Learn about our life-saving Street Outreach efforts. Because of the COVID-19 crisis, people living on the street have limited resources. Many of the service locations they rely on in order…
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French Food for Vulnerable Men During COVID
How the French Embassy and DC’s French restaurants began feeding La Casa’s formerly homelessness men during COVID Friendship Place’s allies in the French community have brought continental flair to the meals enjoyed…
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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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Ending homelessness by 2020
Have you heard about the plan to end homelessness in DC? There’s a plan to end homelessness in the District of Columbia. Mayor Bowser announced the kickoff of the Homeward…
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Power Up: A Celebration
On an autumn afternoon at Busboys & Poets downtown, a dozen formerly homeless parents in Friendship Place’s Power Up program gathered for a luncheon to mark the progress they have…
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Your Donation Helps End Homelessness!
Your support for Friendship Place has a lasting impact. In 2020, our programs ended or prevented homelessness for 2,664 people, including 606 children in families and 661 veterans. We empowered 200 people experiencing or at risk of homelessness to get jobs through innovative, state-of-the-art job placement services. Friendship Place's programs collectively served a total of 3,432 people in 2020. Make a donation today in support of our work to end homelessness. Questions? Please feel free to call our fundraising office, 202.503.2970.