MISSION AND PURPOSE

This Corporation is organized and shall operate exclusively for charitable, educational, cultural and scientific purposes but limited to exempt purposes described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; and this corporation may engaged in only such activities permitted under the laws of the State of Florida and the United States of America as shall constitute activities in furtherance of such exempt purposes. 

As a community-based organization, Friends-Together, Inc. will serve the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of people infected and affected with HIV.  The education and prevention component will carry out both community education and secondary prevention, as well as provide support groups. It will also seek to serve the needs of disenfranchised youth through life skills training and mentoring.