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Community
Step Up for Impact!
There are events you attend—and then there are movements you become part of. The Friendship Place Walk to End Homelessness is the movement that you don’t want to miss. Each…
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Memorable Lines From a Fundraising Breakfast
You know how something can be too big a story to write? How to manage to share the heart of it, I wonder? What I will do today is share…
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Winter Food Drive for La Casa
🥫❄️ Help make our WINTER FOOD DRIVE FOR LA CASA a success! ❄️🥫 La Casa residents rely on easy, take-away foods during the winter months, and our shelves need support…
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Friendship Action Network
Tell Congress: DC’s money belongs to DC!
Urgent Action! Please join Friendship Place in Free DC’s action to stop the Senate from taking DC’s Earned Income Tax Credits and Child Care Tax credits away! Please call and…
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Friendship Place President & CEO Jean-Michel Giraud named Washingtonian of the Year!
Dear Members of Our Community, I’m excited to share some wonderful news: Jean-Michel Giraud, our President and CEO, has been named one of Washingtonian magazine’s 2025 Washingtonians of the Year. This recognition honors…
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Friendship Place Recipient of 2026 Bob Woodruff Foundation Grant
We are excited to announce that we received a $100,000 grant from the Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF) in October 2025 to support our Veterans First program! The mission of the…
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Your Donation Helps End Homelessness!
Your support for Friendship Place has a lasting impact. In 2025, our programs ended or prevented homelessness for 5,443 people, including 1,700 children in families and 740 veterans. We empowered over 100 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.