Welcome to FPCS!Learn more about our COVID- 19 and School Safety Resources Committed to Serving Children MENU BOARD OF TRUSTEES Donald L. Hense Chairman & Founder Donald L. Hense, longtime executive director of the Friendship House social service agency, is a founder of Friendship Public Charter School. Donald serves as chairman of the Center for Youth and Family Investment, which provides extended learning programs to more than 2,000 children daily. He also co-founded the Bridges to Friendship Initiative, which spurred the Navy Yard revitalization and was recognized by Vice President Al Gore as a model community initiative. Donald has served as vice president of the National Urban League, director of development of the Children’s Defense Fund, and director of governmental relations at Howard University, Boston University and Dartmouth College. He is a board member of the Center for Education Reform and the D.C. Arts and Humanities Collaborative and is treasurer of the D.C. Association of Charter Schools. In 2011, Donald was inducted into the National Charter Schools Hall of Fame. Donald received his B.A. from Morehouse College and attended graduate school at Stanford University. He was a Rockefeller intern in economics at Cornell University, a Merrill scholar at the University of Ghana, a Ford Foundation fellow at Stanford University and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Hense | Chairman Gregory Prince | Vice Chairman Victor E. Long | Secretary Darrin Glymph | Treasurer Patricia Brantley Carol Thompson Cole Tracy Gray Eric McKinley King Deborah McGriff Jeanette Mendes, Parent Representative Gabrielle Montgomery, Parent Representative Anise Walker Chris White Board of Trustees Meeting Calendar Thursday, October 22, 2020 (Agenda) Thursday, December 10, 2020 (Agenda) Thursday, January 28, 2021 (Agenda) Thursday, March 18, 2021 (Agenda) Thursday, May 13, 2021 (Agenda) Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (Agenda) Thursday, October 21, 2021 (Agenda & Draft Minutes) Thursday, December 16, 2021 Thursday, March 24, 2022 Thursday, May 19, 2022 Approved Board Minutes Thursday, June 15, 2021 Thursday, May 13, 2021 Thursday, March 18, 2021 Thursday, January 28, 2021 Thursday, December 10, 2020 Thursday, October 22, 2020 Monday, June 22, 2020 Thursday, May 14, 2020 Thursday, March 12, 2020 Thursday, December 12, 2019 Friendship Public Charter School | 1400 1st Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001 Phone: 202-281-1700 | Fax: 202-986-9240 Procurement Friendship Staff Intranet Notice of Nondiscrimination