$10 a month
$120
a year, from one neighbor.
Put something on the table
A door
costs less
than a crisis.
Holding Ground runs on people who decide this matters. No government strings. No waitlists for dignity. Neighbors funding a place for neighbors to land.
Stage one — opening the first doors
$3,350 / $50,000
Ways to give
Recommended · Give monthly
- $10/mo
- $25/mo
- Any amount
Recurring gifts are what let a young organization plan past the next quarter. A committed $10 or $25 a month is worth more to us than a larger one-time check, because it's the difference between a budget and a hope.
Give monthly →Give once
Every dollar of Stage One buys the ability to do Stage Two properly. A gift today isn't a gift to a filing cabinet — it's the shortest path between this page and somebody sleeping behind a door that locks.
Give once →—What monthly adds up to
Small, steady,
and it adds up.
$25 a month
$300
a year, from one neighbor.
167 neighbors at $25
$50,100
a year. All of Stage One, in twelve months.
—Where the money goes
Help first.
Build later.
The temptation is to spend three years designing the perfect building while people sleep in cars. We're doing it the other way around. The first door opens in existing buildings, because existing buildings are already standing.
Stage one
Now
Your gift funds thisBuild the machine that can hold the money
File the federal tax exemption. Seat a governing board with real oversight authority. Put insurance and financial controls in place, then make the first major fundraising push. Unglamorous, and non-negotiable — nobody should hand six figures to an organization that can't yet receipt it properly or has no board to answer to. This is the stage your gift funds today.
Stage two
Within
a year
Doors, in buildings that already exist
We plan to lease roughly ten existing units — rooms and apartments already standing in Durango — and operate them as private, low-barrier places to live. No construction. No zoning fight. No three-year permitting timeline. Someone sleeps behind a door that locks within a year.
Free through a defined intake window tied to a plan the participant writes, then graduated rates as income comes back online.
Stage three
Later
Build what does not exist yet
Once the model is proven and the organization is stable, we build permanent housing designed from the ground up for this population — not adapted from a template written for somebody else. It's the reason this organization exists rather than a smaller one. That's a longer conversation. Ask us in person.
The order is the strategy, not a compromise.
Leasing existing rooms means we can be wrong cheaply, learn in months instead of years, and arrive at Stage Three with occupancy data instead of an architect's rendering. Every stage pays for the credibility to attempt the next one.
Other ways to help
Other ways in
Capital is the obvious one and not always the most valuable. A landlord introduction, a property owner willing to talk about a block of units, a seat at a table you already sit at — any of these can move this further than a check.
Email me directly →Not ready to give?
Ask to be on the list. You'll hear from me when there's something real to report — including what doesn't go well.
Add me to the list →How your gift is treated
Holding Ground is a Colorado nonprofit corporation, EIN 42-3677454, formed July 2026. Our 501(c)(3) application is in progress. If it is approved, exemption is retroactive to our formation date and contributions made now are expected to be covered — the expected path, not a guarantee. Please confirm the treatment of any gift with your own tax preparer.