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Housing Facility Raises Bar for City Homeless Services
by ERIC FALQUERO // News // December 18, 2014 Half a block from the Columbia Heights metro station, across from IHOP, Best Buy, and other restaurants and retail establishments, sits the District’s first…
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Housing Facility Raises Bar for City Homeless Services
by ERIC FALQUERO // News // December 18, 2014 Half a block from the Columbia Heights metro station, across from IHOP, Best Buy, and other restaurants and retail establishments, sits the District’s first…
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On pace: Ending veteran homelessness in D.C.
By Rachel Nania June 30, 2014 WASHINGTON — Alan Banks is an Air Force veteran and father. In 1996 he was married and making six figures in security and…
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The Homeless Get Hired through AimHire Program
Every week Mark Gordon takes calls from homeless people at the non-profit organization, Friendship Place. He knows how they feel. Following the Great Recession of 2008, Gordon faced a housing foreclosure,…
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100 Homeless DC Residents Back to Work through Friendship Place’s AimHire Program
Friendship Place’s AimHire Job Placement program reached a milestone Tuesday, with its 100th successful job placement. Of the 100 homeless adults back to work in the DC Metro Area, 97…
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HERO CENTRAL: AimHire Helps Homeless Find Work
The Washington Metropolitan Area has more than 13,000 homeless residents, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Author: WUSA 9 Staff and WUSA , WUSA Published: 12:44 PM…
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Charity leaders win $100,000 grants
By Henri E. Cauvin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 27, 2010; 8:34 PM The recession has not been kind to nonprofit organizations. Even as demand for their services has…
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