Friendship Place Receives $2.5 Million Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant to End Homelessness
Day 1 Families Fund grants $105.9 million to 42 nonprofits helping families gain housing support and stability WASHINGTON, D.C. – (December 9, 2020): Friendship Place, the nonprofit leading the…
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Winter Warmth Clothing & Food Drive
NBC 4 Host Aaron Gilchrist interviews Friendship Place staff Anne Marie Buron and supporter Kate Belinski to discuss Winter Warmth—an annual clothing and holiday hot meal drive for our neighbors…
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Friendship Place and Spreetail Partner to Protect the Homeless from Exposure
BREAKING THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS WITH 2,000 WINTER COATS As winter begins, cities across the U.S. are preparing to help their homeless populations through dangerous seasonal conditions. Unfortunately, up to…
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Annual Walk on Mall Aims to End D.C. Homelessness
By Brigette Squire on November 7, 2018 A wave of orange washed over the Lincoln Memorial last weekend, as the Friendship Place organization held its annual Friendship Walks event to…
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Friendship Place’s annual Walk fundraiser seeks to provide a safety net for homeless LGBTQ youth
The fourth annual Friendship Walks helps fund the organization’s work to combat homelessness By John Riley on November 1, 2018 @JohnAndresRiley “Ending homelessness means building systems strong enough to catch people in…
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A $1 million donation from Amazon is keeping D.C. families out of homelessness
News Source: Street Sense Media With the help of a $1 million donation from Amazon, the D.C.-based nonprofit Friendship Place recently launched “Family Connect,” a privately funded homelessness prevention and…
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Deconstructing Systemic Racism
News Source: The Washington Informer Throughout much of the 20th century, the Federal Housing Authority’s Redlining Policy kept people of color out of the emerging suburbs while undermining growth in inner…
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Employment First: A Powerful Tool for Ending Homelessness
News Source: US National Interagency Council on Homelessness (USNICH) We have made tremendous progress in the work to end homelessness over the past 10 years. Much of our success can…
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Helping families before they become homeless
News Source: The Washington Post By Tara Bahrampour When Myisha Rawlings returned home last summer after giving birth to her son, Carter, she was greeted not with balloons and casseroles…
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D.C. nonprofit receives $1 million donation from Amazon
News Source: ABC 7 (WJLA) Amazon recently made good on a promise to donate $1 million to a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. Friendship Place serves families throughout the region…
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