Your friends in Memphis are about to make a big move!
our new building
It’s a big day for Friends For All! After months of planning, Friends For All is preparing to move into a new home for our programs and services. It’s a building you may know: 1548 Poplar Avenue, formerly the Memphis Leadership Institute.
For years now, our vision for growth has included an expansion of services. Over time, we realized this expansion is only possible if we move our agency to a physically bigger, operationally better headquarters: a building that could house all of our staff and services more efficiently, but with enough room for growth. This growth represents a critical next generation of support to end the HIV epidemic in Memphis and the Mid-South. With the feedback of our clients and the support of our board, we dreamt big to make this goal possible—and this building offers the space and location to bring that dream to life!
OUR new home
Our new home will be located just a half-mile from our current location at 43 N. Cleveland Street. Not only is it situated on Poplar Avenue, offering increased visibility on a busy thoroughfare, but it also offers expanded parking, direct access to bus lines, and a layout that facilitates strategic growth. We are renovating this 40,000-square-foot property in a way that will make it the most comprehensive, responsive, and innovative suite of resources possible—for our clients living with HIV/AIDS, as well as for those communities at the highest risk of HIV infection.
These resources will include brand-new services that allow us to better meet the needs of our community. Among many new programs will be an onsite clinic offering immediate “Rapid Start” clinical care. This service assures each client receives fast and effective treatment at the moment they first discover they are HIV positive.
Friends will now be able to create a treatment plan and prescribe medication in our own onsite clinic, all within 72 hours of diagnosis. This will create an immediate path to viral suppression, clearing the way to an undetectable status in the shortest amount of time possible.
This is a major step for Memphis. And this building—with its own dedicated wing for clinical care—will help us make it possible. And you can help make it possible too!
Join our journey!
Your support makes Friends' exciting new chapter possible. As always, you can support us as a weekly, monthly, or one-time donor through this link or by clicking the button below. By joining us through donations, you are making it possible for Friends to provide the following life-changing programs to our Mid-South community:
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art onsite clinic for patient care and wellness
A home for “Rapid Start” HIV care to assure the fastest viral suppression possible
Expanded food pantry coordination and delivery
A teaching kitchen to expand nutritional counseling
Whole-body health initiatives—physical and mental wellness—for those at risk of HIV, not just those living with HIV/AIDS
Short- and long-term housing options for our Friends living in the Mid-South Area
After clicking the donation link below, you can choose to give us a donation of any size. Your donation can be one-time, weekly, or even monthly! For any questions regarding your donations, please email B. Scott Duke at bscott.duke@friendsforall.org.