Friends of Puerto Rico

Friends of Puerto Rico at 1101 30th Street NW Suite 500 is a cultural and advocacy organization in Georgetown’s canal neighborhood, working to connect the Georgetown and Washington community with the Puerto Rican culture, the Puerto Rican arts, and the policy advocacy that the Puerto Rican community’s interests in the Washington legislative environment require. The organization’s Georgetown canal-neighborhood address at 1101 30th Street NW places it in the Washington advocacy and cultural organization cluster that the Georgetown professional and nonprofit community occupies.

The cultural programming that Friends of Puerto Rico provides includes the events, the exhibitions, and the educational initiatives that bring the Puerto Rican artistic and cultural tradition to the Washington audience. Puerto Rico’s cultural contribution to the American cultural landscape, from the Puerto Rican literary tradition through the music, the visual art, and the culinary culture that the island’s diverse heritage has produced, is the subject of the cultural programming that the organization develops for the Washington audience.

The advocacy dimension of Friends of Puerto Rico’s work reflects the specific relationship between Puerto Rico and the Washington federal government: as a United States territory, Puerto Rico’s residents are American citizens who do not have the federal voting representation that the states provide, which makes the Washington advocacy work particularly significant for the Puerto Rican community’s engagement with the legislative process that affects the island’s governance and the federal program access.

Hours run Monday through Friday at the Georgetown canal neighborhood office address. The Friends of Puerto Rico at 1101 30th Street NW Suite 500 provides the Washington community with the specific educational and cultural resources that the Georgetown canal neighborhood’s access to the political and the media establishment enables for the Puerto Rican advocacy work. The Washington location’s proximity to the Congress, the White House, and the federal agencies that make the policy decisions affecting Puerto Rico gives the Friends of Puerto Rico’s advocacy work the geographic advantage of the immediate access to the decision-making institutions.

The cultural programming that the organization produces in Washington provides the Georgetown and the wider Washington community with the direct engagement with the Puerto Rican cultural tradition that the Washington-area Puerto Rican community maintains and that the Friends of Puerto Rico’s cultural events communicate to the broader Washington audience. Hours run Monday through Friday at 1101 30th Street NW Suite 500. Friends of Puerto Rico at 1101 30th Street NW Suite 500 Georgetown is open Monday through Friday for organizational and advocacy work. The 30th Street canal neighborhood address at Suite 500 provides the organization with the Georgetown professional commercial setting that the Washington advocacy and cultural organization uses for the staff work and the visitor engagement. The organization’s events and programming are open to the Georgetown and Washington community.