Genesis Home
The Genesis Home removes obstacles for families caught in the crisis of homelessness by offering a safe place where family members can live and work together to re-establish permanent and stable households. The Home provides families with food, shelter, support services such as case management, advocacy, referral, and goal oriented counseling.
Phone: 919-683-5878 ext. 28
Girls on the Run
Girls on the Run (GOTR) is an innovative health education and wellness program that combines training for a noncompetitive 3.1 mile run/walk event with life-changing, self-esteem enhancing lessons that encourage healthy habits for girls 8-12 years of age.
Phone: 919-401-6307
Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries is committed to providing an environment for people to improve the quality of their lives through employment and learning opportunities with a focus on persons with disabilities. Goodwill Industries offers a job-training program that combines computer training and career development.
Phone: 941-9600 ext. 107
Guardian ad Litem Program (GAL)
GAL is an organization which advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in Durham County through the use of trained volunteers. Volunteers include child advocates and attorneys.
Phone: 919-564-7290
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat provides a hand-up, not a hand-out by helping people help themselves. Habitat builds modest, well built homes with as much donated materials and labor as possible and sells them at cost to the partner homeowners.
Phone: 919-682-0516 x 101
Email:phatcher@DurhamHabitat.org
Habitat Hand-Me-Ups Store
Habitat Hand-Me-Ups Store is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity with a mission of raising funds for the purchase of materials to build homes. There second mission is to offer new or nearly new household goods at a reasonable price.
Phone: 919-403-8668
Hillcrest Convalescent Center
Hillcrest Convalescent Center is one of North Carolina’s first nursing homes, and has become the "Nursing Home of Choice" for families that demand high quality care. The founder and proprietors of Hillcrest saw a dire need for competent, attentive care for the elderly, and sought to fulfill that need. We opened our doors in 1951 and we are family-owned, family-operated, and family-focused.
Phone: 919-286-7705
Headstart
Headstart is a program of Operation Breakthrough, Inc. Headstart is a preschool program designed to serve children ages 3-4. Participants must meet federal eligibility guidelines. The education component of Headstart encourages children to solve problems, initiate activities, explore, experiment, question, and gain mastery through learning by doing.
Phone: 919-688-5541
Helpline
Helpline is a service of the Durham County Mental Health Center. Helpline gives people in crisis a chance to talk to a caring individual who will listen and offer some solace. Helpline relies entirely on volunteers to fill this important need in the community.
Phone: 1-800-510-9132 or 919-560-7100
Historic Preservation Society of Durham
Preservation Durham's mission is to preserve the history, architecture, and cultural heritage of Durham and Durham County and to serve as an institution for the education of citizens through the promotion and appreciation of this heritage.
Phone: 919-682-3036
Homeplace of Durham
Homeplace Assisted Living has been designed and specially staffed to accommodate older adults who need daily supervision or personal assistance, but who do not need the advanced medical attention provided by a nursing home.
Phone: 919-484-8518
Housing for New Hope
The organization's mission is to encourage and assist homeless people and other persons in crisis to move toward lives marked by increased levels of stability, dignity, hope, and independence. Housing for New Hope provides a unique continuum of care for the most needy of Durham's citizens through outreach and crisis assistance, transitional housing, and permanent housing.
Phone: 919-489-6282