As Durham, NC’s oldest and largest long-term shelter, the Durham Rescue Mission currently serves 400 men, women and children a day, 365 days a year throughout the Triangle by providing safe shelter, addiction recovery programs and much more.

The mission of DurhamCares is to foster collaboration, develop leaders, and educate the people of our city to care for their neighbors in holistic ways.

A faith-based non-profit organization committed to serving women and men in the community by providing medical, educational and support services and resources related to pregnancy and sexual health without condemnation or manipulation.

Each year, Durham Habitat helps nearly 25 families build homes in Durham. Built mostly with volunteer labor, all homes are professionally supervised and built to ensure high quality and consistency. Habitat families provide “sweat equity,” working alongside our volunteers and staff in home construction, and Habitat provides zero-interest mortgages.

DPS Foundation is a community-led effort to accelerate the transformation of Durham Public Schools for success and equity for every student.

Through comprehensive and compassionate services, we support individual and family clients experiencing homelessness and at risk of homelessness to open doors to security, sustainability and empowerment.

JusticeMatters addresses the roots and repercussions of human trafficking. They provide trauma-informed legal services and promote just policies and practices throughout North Carolina.

The Mt. Level Community Partnership for Racial Justice unites churches and individuals to bring about racial justice in our community and our world. Blacknall is among the four representatives, Durham-based churches and organizations, that currently comprise this partnership.

Samaritan Health Center's mission is to share the love of Christ by serving those in need through health care. It provides compassionate, comprehensive, and affordable health care to the underserved in our community that focuses on the physical needs, as well as the social, emotional, and spiritual issues that affect health. Through donated talent and resources, we work to help eliminate our community's health disparities. We are motivated by the love God has shown us through Jesus Christ, and want to respond to His love for our neighbor by providing health care to those who cannot afford it.

St. Joseph’s welcomes our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness, that they may find respite and relationship in the church and on our grounds. We share breakfast Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:00 a.m., following Morning Prayer at 7:30, with anyone who is hungry. Through our conversations with our neighbors, we seek to provide assistance as we are able.

Urban Ministries of Durham connects with the community to end homelessness and fight poverty by offering food, shelter and a future to neighbors in need. It has a long history in the downtown Durham community. UMD operates as a campus, using both the Resource Center at Liberty and Queen streets and the Community Shelter at Liberty and Dillard streets to comprehensively address the emergency needs of the poor, hungry, and homeless in Durham.

Part of Blacknall's partnership with St. John's Missionary Baptist Church and Walltown Food Bank. A partnership of churches and organizations invested in the neighborhood that serves as a roundtable to promote coordination for the common good.