Democracy North Carolina
Democracy North Carolina is a nonpartisan (501c3) non-profit organization working to fulfill the promise of "one person, one vote," the bedrock principle of equal rights. We focus on election reform, and public financing of campaigns, to increase the voice of the electorate and minimize the influence of big money.
Phone: 919-286-6000
Department of Veterans Affairs, Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network
The Department of Veterans Affairs nationwide health care system will have over 62,000 patients in its medical centers and nursing homes tonight and over a quarter of a million veterans will visit VA Outpatient Clinics this week alone. VA health care facilities provide a broad spectrum of medical, surgical, and rehabilitative care, in addition to a wide array of support and administrative services.
Phone: 919-286-0411
DonorsChoose NC
DonorsChoose helps public school teachers in North Carolina to find funding for programs, supplies, projects, field trips, and visitors for their classrooms.
Phone: 919-806-4243
Duke Homestead State Historic Site
The Duke Homestead is a beautiful 19th century estate in Durham, North Carolina. It is home to extensive archives and exhibits about early tobacco farming in America, its popularization and manufacture. In addition, it chronicles the story of the Duke family from Washington Duke's humble beginnings as a farmer in the early 1800's to the present. The Homestead maintains the original buildings used by the Dukes as well as a modern museum with interactive, mutimedia exhibits and animitronic displays.
Phone: 919-477-5498
Duke Park Neighborhood Association
The Duke Park Neighborhood Association is located in Durham, North Carolina. Our goals are to maintain the beauty of our neighborhood and to continually look for ways to improve the quality of life here.
Phone: 919-956-8054
Durham Affordable Housing Coalition
Durham Affordable Housing Coalition works with elected officials, nonprofit housing providers, community organizations, and concerned residents to increase the stock of safe, decent, and affordable housing in the community.
Phone: 919-683-1185 ext. 25
Durham Arts Council- Art Guild, Inc.
Our Mission is to function as a non-profit, member-driven organization with the primary goal of operating a visual arts gallery that features the work of regional artists. The Arts Council is a resource center for the arts in Durham. The Arts Council sponsors Centerfest, a street festival held every September. The Arts Council also sponsors art classes, the Creative Arts in the Public School program, grants, and galleries to display exhibits. The Arts Council is also the home to the African American Dance Ensemble. We connect our community's artists and arts patrons. We support emerging and established artists alike.
Phone: 919-560-2787
Durham Arts Council- CAPS
Durham Arts Council, Inc. promotes excellence and access in the creation, experience and active support of the arts for all the people of our community. Any professional artist or group who has a passion for and experience in arts-in-education, and wishes to share that passion and expertise with students, teachers, and the community partners as a CAPS Artist.
Phone: 919-560-2718
Durham Center
The Durham Center is responsible for ensuring that Durham County citizens who seek help for mental illness, developmental disabilities and substance abuse receive the services and supports for which they are eligible to achieve their goals and to live as independently as possible. The Durham Center is responsible for making sure Durham County citizens receive quality services and their individual rights are protected. The Durham Center also has a Education and Prevention Group that holds a variety of programs for youth.
Phone: 919-560-7100
Durham Central Park
The mission of Durham Central Park is to create a unique, 5-acre urban park for the citizens of Durham that provides a variety of activities, with an emphasis on the arts, and serves as a focus for efforts to rejuvenate the surrounding neighborhood.consultations and training volunteers.
Phone: 919-682-2800
Durham Chamber of Commerce
The Durham Chamber of Commerce is a partnership of groups and individuals that have joined together to build a healthy economy and to improve the quality of life in the Durham community. Volunteer opportunities are available with the main office.
Phone: 919-682-2133
Durham Co-op Grocery
Our mission is to operate a community owned enterprise grounded in sustainable living. Our vision is community independence through cultivating sustainability.
Phone: 919-490-0929
Durham Communities in Schools
Communities in Schools takes a holistic approach to drop-out prevention by addressing the physical, emotional, social and academic needs of children and families through a wide range of tutoring, counseling and mentoring programs; cultural and community service activities; and advisement for post-secondary education, financial aid, scholarships and career services.
Phone: 919-682-9000
Durham Community Land Trustees
Durham Community Land Trustees, Inc. (DCLT) was founded in 1987 when neighbors banded together after seeing house after house left empty to decay. Motivated by a vision of cleaning up houses that attract crime, increasing the stock of affordable housing, and helping residents gain a stake in their community through homeownership, these residents laid the foundation for DCLT.
Phone: 919-490-0063
Durham Companions
Durham Companions is a non-profit organization, that provide one-on-one mentoring services for at-risk youth between the ages of 6 - 17. The program's goal is to brighten the future of these young men and women, by giving them a consistent and positive relationship with an adult. Our youth desperately need the love and attention that a mentor can offer. Phone: 919-956-9466
Durham Congregations In Action
DCIA seeks to engage and empower people of faith to create a community of justice and peace through our common prayers and acts of compassion; and with prophetic courage to act as advocates for the dignity and well-being of all persons, recognizing that behind every human face is the face of God. Volunteer opportunities include mentoring high school students.
Phone: 919-688-2036
Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau
This official site includes portals to other credible sites about Durham and comprehensive information for Durham visitors, newcomers, journalists, meeting and event planners, group tour operators, and film makers.
Phone: 919-687-0288
Durham Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.
DCADD is a private, nonprofit voluntary health organization and a local affiliate of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), Inc.
Phone: 919-309-2600
Durham County Board of Elections
The Mission of the Board of Elections is to provide free, open, honest, and professionally managed election services to our community. The Durham Board of Elections sponsors Kids Vote, a program that allows children to cast their own ballots at the polls on election day. Kids Vote is part of a larger, national organization that promotes civic involvement by teaching K-12th graders about democracy.
Phone: 919-688-8977 ext. 23
Durham County Community Living Programs, Inc.
Community Living Programs supports a program through Duke called Best Buddies. Best Buddies provides volunteers who are friends to individuals with mental retardation who live in a residential program.
Phone: 919-489-0682
Durham County Health Department
The mission of the Durham County Health Department is to preserve, protect and enhance the general health and environment of the community.
Phone: 919-560-7600
Durham County Library
The Durham County Library provides the entire community with books, services, and other resources which inform, inspire learning, cultivate understanding, and excite the imagination
Phone: 919-560-0100
Durham County Special Olympics
The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
Phone: 919-560-1301
Durham County Youth Home
The mission of the Youth Home is to provide a safe, secure, and positive environment for juveniles and staff. Its purpose is to provide juvenile detention for the protection of the juvenile and the community. The basic emphasis is on positive service, programs, and care for a juvenile pending a court disposition.
Phone: 919-560-0840
Durham Crisis Response Center
The Durham Crisis Response Center is based in Durham and provides services to victims of domestic and sexual violence in Durham County. The Durham Crisis Response Center works with the community to end domestic and sexual violence through advocacy, support, education, and prevention.
Phone: 919-403-9425 x230
**The Durham Crisis Response Center is the merger of Rape Crisis of Durham (RCD) and ARISE.
Durham Hosiery Mill Apartments
Built in 1901, it was once the nerve center of the world's largest hosiery mill complex and largest producer of silk stockings. After 1904, the only mill in the country staffed entirely by African-American employees. Today it provides low-income housing for seniors. On National Register of Historic Places.
Phone: 919-682-4866
Durham Housing Authority
The primary goal of the Durham Housing Authority is to provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing for Durham’s low and moderate income citizens. The DHA offers a number of programs and services to meet the community need.
Phone: 919-683-1551
Durham Interfaith Hospitality Network
Durham IHN is a local ministry, based on a national model, that offers shelter and support to families who are homeless. This model uses local congregational facilities for overnight lodging and uses congregants provide tangible support such as meals, laundry services, transportation, and job leads as well as the intangible gifts of love and interest.
Phone: 919-682-2846
Durham Literacy Center
DLC provides adult literacy education. They serve the community through one on one tutoring, ESL tutoring, family literacy, and other programs.
Phone: 919-489-8383
Durham Nativity School
The Durham Nativity School provides a learning environment for boys in grades 6-8 that supports them in their personal, social, moral, and intellectual development and positions them to be successful at a college prep high school.
Phone: 919-680-3790 ext. 103
Durham Nursery School Association
Child Day Care Services, including arts and crafts, music, language development, physical activities, games, and science.
Phone: 919-489-9859
Durham Parks and Recreation Department
Durham Parks and Recreation is Durham's source for creative and challenging recreational choices. We strive to help citizens discover, explore, and enjoy life through creative and challenging recreational choices that contribute to their physical. emotional, and social health.
Phone: 919-560-4355 ext. 224
Durham Parks and Recreation Department - Special Populations and Inclusion Programs
Special Populations provides activities for persons with disabilities such as Special Olympics and afterschool programs for children.
Phone: 919-560-4355 ext. 236
Durham Public Education Network
The Durham Public Education Network is an independent, nonprofit organization that garners community resources to ensure the highest achievement of all children in public schools.
Phone: 919-493-4708 ext. 221
Durham Public Schools
Durham Public Schools welcomes parents, businesses and community members who wish to volunteer their time and share their resources in the schools. Community support is vital to ensuring our young people’s success. We urge the entire community to get involved in our schools to help students achieve academic success and become responsible and productive citizens.
Phone: 919-560-3816 ext. 22156
Contact: Sheila Miglarese, Volunteer Services Coordinator
Durham Public Schools - ESL Program
More than 100 different indigenous languages and dialects are spoken by the students of Durham Public Schools. DPS embraces the rich diversity that defines the community we serve. Our English as a Second Language department continues, therefore, to embolden its efforts to keep up with our growing population of students whose families hail from other countries.
Phone: 919-560-3783
Contact: Sashi Rayasam, Director of ESL & Foreign Language
Durham Rescue Mission
The Durham Rescue Mission is Durham's oldest and largest shelter for men, women, and children. They offer hot meals, safe shelter, clean clothing, vocational training, Biblical counseling, and job placement. Phone: 688-9641, ext. 5025
Durham School of the Arts
DSA, one of the schools included in the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership, serves students in grades 6-12 and offers a rigorous educational program emphasizing the visual and performing arts.
Phone: 919-560-3926
Durham's Partnership for Children
The mission of Durham's Partnership for Children is to mobilize and unify the Durham community to create and support innovative and successful collaborative approaches to serving the needs of children 0 to 5 years of age and their families. Their funded programs focus on early childhood education, child health care, early intervention, parenting education and family support.
Phone: 919-403-6960