Housing, dignity and a job at Friendship Place
The anti-homelessness nonprofit has spent three decades providing the DMV’s most vulnerable residents with resources to get back on their feet By Gabe Castro-Root If you don’t know to look…
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Aiming higher: DC nonprofit’s program expands into DC’s ‘Jobs First’ pilot
A participant in Friendship Place’s AimHire program attends a job fair. (Photo courtesy of Friendship Place) By Annemarie Cuccia on May 13, 2022 Last updated May 13, 2022 Yulyia Demetria needed a job. She didn’t…
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Annual walk to end homelessness returns to DC
by KAELA ROEDER Participants begin the walk to end homelessness at Constitution Gardens. Photo by Kaela Roeder Friendship Place, a local housing and homeless services provider, brought back its annual walk…
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Understanding their LGBTQ clients is important to the people at Friendship Place
By John Kelly Columnist January 4, 2022 at 1:29 p.m. EST The Pride flag is pretty, but if there isn’t an understanding of how to treat the people it represents,…
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At the Brooks, a temporary home for District families in need
Perspective by John Kelly Columnist December 28, 2021 at 3:15 p.m. EST The Brooks, which provides short-term housing for District families in need, opened in April 2020. Operated by Friendship Place,…
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‘Gregory has an apartment’: Friendship Place helps a man into his own home
Perspective by John Kelly Columnist December 20, 2021 at 12:56 p.m. EST Gregory, 35, looks out the window of his new D.C. apartment. After living on the streets for years, he…
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At Friendship Place, a new way of finding a job
AimHire aims to match people with an employer as quickly as possible Perspective by John Kelly Columnist December 14, 2021 at 2:48 p.m. EST (The Washington Post) The past few years…
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All are welcome at Friendship Place, whatever their needs
Perspective by John Kelly Columnist November 24, 2021 at 5:27 p.m. EST Maisha Pinkard is the Welcome Center division director at Friendship Place, a charity in Northwest D.C. that helps people…
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A Life Changed by Friendship Place
by John Kelly Columnist When a veteran struggled with homelessness, Friendship Place offered help After twice experiencing homelessness, Air Force veteran Alan Banks found help at Friendship Place, a partner…
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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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Your support for Friendship Place has a lasting impact. In 2021, our programs ended or prevented homelessness for 4,497 people, including 600 children in families and 750 veterans. We empowered 136 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.