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Friends Helping Friends
Great people make an organization run, but the success of an organization is determined by its spirit. The spirit of the Friends Foundation was formed many years ago when we tragically lost two friends in an automobile accident. Chris Robinson and Grant Thornander had a passion for life and an ability to bring passion to the lives of those around them. They referred to themselves as the “Good Guys” in any game they played—and they couldn’t have been more on the mark. We will always miss them. In the year following their death, we realized what a gift it was to have such a close and caring group of friends. We began to feel both a sense of opportunity and a sense of responsibility to do something with it.
The Friends Foundation wasn’t created overnight. At the beginning there were eight young men. We were all in our early twenties, unmarried, busy trying to build careers and far from the profile of those typically involved in building a fledgling charitable organization. Along the way the Friends Foundation has received an overwhelming amount of support from the community. Now there are many new members, most are married with children, still busy with careers, and still fighting the good fight to make each year with the Friends Foundation more successful than the last. The key people in the Friends Foundation can be seen all over Annapolis - in coffee shops, on the golf course, at the car wash and in the grocery store. They are your friends and neighbors.
If there is one lesson to take away from the Friends Foundation, it’s that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. All it requires is a decision to get involved.
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