Your donation keeps one family in their home tonight.
Across Orange, Durham, and Chatham Counties, your neighbors are one missed paycheck from losing everything. You can be the reason they don't. Every dollar you give goes directly to a real person in a real crisis — and you'll know exactly what it did, because we track everything.
Speed is what your gift buys.
The resources to keep families housed already exist. Public programs, nonprofit grants, rental assistance funds — the system is built. What it cannot do is move in 72 hours.
That is exactly what your gift makes possible. While the existing system takes weeks to process a single application, Grata Connects pays full rent directly to the landlord within 72 hours — stopping eviction before the legal process begins. Your contribution is not an addition to the system. It is the thing that makes the system work in real time.
A gift today is not aspirational. It is operational. Somewhere in our community this week, a family is three days from an eviction filing. Your gift is the difference.
Emergency Housing Stabilization: A family in our community is served an eviction notice after one missed month of rent. Without intervention, displacement means lost schooling, lost employment, and a spiral that costs the community far more to address later.
Grata Connects will pay one full month of rent for qualifying families, providing the breathing room to avoid displacement. We then conduct a full needs assessment and connect each family with long-term support. The goal is not just to prevent an eviction, it is to begin a real path to stability. $800 - $1400 keeps one family housed. Fully tracked.