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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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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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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.