Families Moving Forward's vision: Every family thriving in a permanent, stable home. It offers a temporary home to families with children in the crisis of homelessness. Working together, we create a path to stability and self-sufficiency through personalized services and ongoing community support

Creating opportunities for teens and adults with and without developmental disabilities to experience belonging, kinship and the life-changing Reality of Christ’s love.

Bible Study Fellowship is an international organization whose mission is global, in-depth Bible studies producing passionate commitment to Christ, His Word and His Church.

The local group offers a Men’s Bible Study on Monday evenings at Blacknall. Men of all ages and their school age children are invited to participate.

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.

El Futuro is a one-of-a-kind place where Spanish-speaking immigrants can access culturally-responsive mental health services.

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.

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.

2504 N. Roxboro St., Durham

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.

A Christian nonprofit committed to providing honest, helpful and accurate information to women in Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding areas who are considering their choices in an unplanned pregnancy and education for middle and high school students about healthy relationships.

An intentional community and hospitality house in Durham, North Carolina. The life of the Rutba community inspired the creation of School for Conversion and we continue to partner with them in many ways.

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.

StepUp Durham partners with adults seeking to transform their lives through employment and life skills training. StepUp’s programs are designed specifically for individuals experiencing challenges to finding employment, such as a criminal background or gaps in employment history. We offer a 28-hour workshop that teaches skills needed to find and sustain employment, as well as personalized employment counseling, job referrals, and post-employment support. After securing employment, participants receive ongoing training through Step2, a transformative curriculum that addresses personal development, financial education and career pathways.  

A cohort-based mentoring program for middle school youth from the Walltown neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina. The WAY seeks to integrate a holistic view of personal development–physical, social, academic, and spiritual–with a holistic view of community development–providing basic needs, empowering young leaders, connecting resources, and bridging institutions. Our mentors live in the neighborhood and split their time between activities with the kids and maintaining connections with the guardians, teachers, coaches, and other mentors in the kids’ lives.

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.

World Relief Durham provides refugee resettlement services, refugee and immigrant youth services, and immigration legal services.

Our foreign-born neighbors remind us that in this world we cannot pursue justice in the U.S. alone without working for justice alongside all people everywhere. With the nations at our doorsteps, serving refugees in the Triangle area is an opportunity for us to stand for the vulnerable. Refugee partnership, service, and ministry combine international missions, social justice, community development, holistic service, and hospitality. Individuals, families, small groups, student clubs, and entire churches have the chance to not only learn about vulnerable populations around the globe but to build friendships with them, welcoming them into our community and encouraging them as they rebuild their lives here.