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Our mission to develop and maintain employment and training opportunities for persons with disabilities in integrated work environments touches so many lives here. The thread of Friendship intertwines us all...abled, disabled, ill and not ill, working or at home.
Friendship is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. Your tax deductible donation supports independence, dignity and quality of life for persons with disabilities.
Gifts to Friendship Industries are your personal statement about the worth of human dignity.
And, the thread of Friendship that binds us as a community confirms that human dignity is important to you. Friendship has seen gifts to our annual operating fund increase steadily over the years, assuring us that we are on the right track in helping the physically and mentally disabled. The community has helped us and we appreciate your gifts.
We continue to need support....
Why Do You Need My Support?
We need your support to improve our current programs and services. We are serving more persons with increasingly varied needs each year. In order to maintain our programs, we must continue to rely on funds from private sources. As our commercial options move away from handwork and become more automated, those with the most severe disabilities are left with fewer and fewer work options.
We need your support to provide new programs and services. Persons with disabilities come to us for many needs - not only job training as you might assume. We provide showers for those who have none, we provide transportation for all clients, we provide sign language for those who have trouble communicating. These are necessary in the work world but they are not what people think of when they think of job training.
Friendship generates over 80% of our own revenue with our commercial enterprises. Our commercial operations are a real business with very real customers and quality controls in place just as any for-profit business. The nature of an organization like ours (an Employment Service Organization or ESO) is that we are not able to meet 100% of our revenue. That is why Friendship is a nonprofit. (Read more about the Economics of ESO's here.)
You can make a pledge or gift today with your credit card and start making a difference...
one life at a time.
We participate on GuideStar, the on-line standard for nonprofit accountability.
Take a look at our listing:
"Friendship Industries is changing the lives of the disabled -
one person at a time".
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What Can I Do and How Can I Support Friendship?
Friendship's Annual Fund
Friendship's Transportation Fund
Friendship's Employee Fund
LionShop & Share Program
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Friendship has been in existence for nearly 50 years and looks forward to being here for generations to come. Your major gifts will ensure that Friendship can help a person with disabilities next year, in 10 years, and in 100 years.
Friendship is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. Your tax deductible donation supports independence, dignity and quality of life for persons with disabilities.
Please contact the development office and/or your financial advisor and/or accountant to make this possible. If you prefer not to utilize our online donations with your credit card, you can make a pledge by printing and using this downloadable form.
Checks or Cash
Checks may be made out to Friendship Industries and mailed to the attention of:
Friendship Industries, Attn: Development Office,
801 Friendship Drive, Harrisonburg, VA 22802
OR call our Development Office at (540) 434-9137 and we will be glad to discuss your gift
OR email us directly at developmentoffice@Friendship-Industries.com .
Gifts of Stock/Securities
Gifts of stocks or securities can be made through electronic transfer, mail or personal delivery.
Please advise Friendship Industries of any transfer that you make to us.
Gifts of real estate, trusts, planned gifts and other major gift vehicles
Friendship Industries encourages you to consider us in your life plans and in your will. We are able to accept gifts of real estate, charitable remainder trusts, and other forms of tax-wise giving.
Gifts-in-Kind
Friendship has many opportunities for individuals and businesses to provide goods to us to use in maintaining our business, programs or services. These needs change, so we would be happy to talk with you about your ideas and donations.
Scholarships
Friendship also has opportunities for you to provide scholarships for needy and worthy employees in their training programs.
How Do I Benefit from Friendship?
Serving our Community since 1964, Friendship Industries exists to "develop and maintain employment and training opportunities for persons with disabilities in integrated work environments."
Friendship has been the beneficiary of generous gifts and devoted volunteers who support this mission. People like you have helped Friendship Industries continue to improve and expand our programs and services for persons with disabilities in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.
The Needs of Our Community
Friendship is the largest employer of persons with disabilities in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County and, as such, we fill the need of providing working, tax-paying citizens for our community.
Friendship serves over 140 men and women annually with a wide range of many disabilities including intellectual disabilities, mental illnesses and/or physical disabilities.
Throughout our history, Friendship has served our community successfully with the simple and overriding mission to develop and maintain employment and training opportunities for persons with disabilities. In fact, last year Friendship provided over $3.6 million in wages, payroll, taxes and services to the Community.
Friendship is a member of the Healthy Community Council initiative and fills the role of providing employment and training.
At Friendship, we provide transportation to and from work with our vans and drivers. Many of our workers would have access to our employment services if we were unable to pick them up and drop them off at their homes.
Friendship Industries is a United Way Agency member. Community donations through the United Way provide just under one-half of our transportation costs.
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