Local organizations

Places worth supporting, and places to point a family who needs help.

15 organizations

• Bryan BCS Together Works alongside Brazos Valley foster, adoptive, and kinship families so children in the child-welfare system have stable homes -- running The Closet (free supplies for caregivers), CarePortal (specific, time-limited requests from caseworkers), Kinship Connection, and parenting classes. Children & youth · Families in crisis Support or get help
• Bryan Brazos Valley Food Bank The regional food bank for the Brazos Valley. It does not hand out food directly so much as supply the network that does: partner pantries, meal sites, and school and senior programs across six counties. Food & hunger Support or get help
• Bryan Bryan/College Station Habitat for Humanity Builds and repairs affordable homes in Bryan-College Station and offers affordable mortgages to qualifying families, funded partly through its ReStore thrift operation; the organization states its mission in explicitly faith terms: "Seeking to put God's love into action." Housing & homelessness Support or get help Christian ministry
• Family Promise of Bryan-College Station The Brazos Valley affiliate of the national Family Promise network: keeps homeless families with children together, rather than splitting them into separate shelters, while they work toward stable housing, through a shelter/day-center model run largely by volunteers and partner congregations. Housing & homelessness · Families in crisis Support or get help
• Bryan Feed & Father A Bryan Christian mentoring ministry built around True North, a program pairing young men -- including some connected to the juvenile justice system -- with mentors for leadership, character, and practical-skills development, plus a weekly men's discipleship group and periodic mission trips to Guatemala. Children & youth Support or get help Christian ministry
• Hope Pregnancy Center Free pregnancy support in Bryan and College Station: pregnancy testing, limited obstetric ultrasounds, options counseling, and referrals for women facing an unplanned pregnancy. The center states it does not provide or refer for abortion. Pregnancy & parenting Support or get help
• Bryan Junior League of Bryan-College Station A women's volunteer organization promoting voluntarism and training members for community leadership, with a stated focus on strengthening the well-being of Bryan-College Station's children and youth through trained-volunteer projects. Civic & volunteer Somewhere to serve
• College Station Millican Reserve Land Conservancy The nonprofit conservation partner inside Millican Reserve, a 2,500-acre residential and outdoor community in southern Brazos County -- stewarding trails, farmland, and wildlife habitat and running family-facing programming like Camp Millican and a Farm Stand. Conservation & outdoors Somewhere to serve
• Bryan Mobility Worldwide Brazos Valley A Bryan volunteer shop that builds three-wheeled, hand-powered mobility carts for people with severe leg impairments, mostly shipped to under-resourced countries, as part of the national Mobility Worldwide network. Disability & mobility Somewhere to serve
• Bryan Peacock Legacy of Hope A Bryan nonprofit walking with single mothers and their children through a 24-month transitional-housing and life-skills program, plus church-based Empower support groups and a non-residential track for mothers who already have housing, with an explicitly Christian, church-partnered approach. Housing & homelessness · Families in crisis Support or get help Christian ministry
• Bryan Project Unity A Bryan-based nonprofit running Family Resource Centers across Brazos, Milam, and Robertson counties -- family and youth support, health services, and a veterans program -- aimed at helping families and individuals reach stability. Families in crisis Support or get help
• Bryan S.O.S. Ministries A Bryan ministry working inside under-resourced neighborhoods rather than from outside them: after-school programs for K-6 kids, teen ministry and Bible studies, vocational training in plumbing and welding, and a residential discipleship home for men, framed explicitly as bringing the love of Jesus Christ to the streets. Children & youth Support or get help Christian ministry
• Stewards of the Wild -- BCS The Bryan-College Station chapter of Stewards of the Wild, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation program for emerging conservation leaders ages 21-45: outdoor outings, conservation education, and networking events, run by a local volunteer advisory council. Conservation & outdoors Somewhere to serve
• Bryan Still Creek Ranch A residential home in Bryan for children rescued from crisis -- abuse, neglect, or an unsafe home -- built around family-style houses, an accredited school, ranch life, and a Christian discipleship focus. Placement comes through Child Protective Services referral, not family walk-in. Children & youth Somewhere to serve Christian ministry
• Bryan Twin City Mission Serving the Brazos Valley since 1963 -- the area's oldest private social-service agency -- connecting people who need help with people who can give it, through homeless shelter (the Doug Weedon Shelter for Hope), housing services, domestic-violence services, family support, and a donation/resale operation. Housing & homelessness · Families in crisis Support or get help