To continue our current level of pro-bono work, expand our resentencing project by adding two attorneys and a mitigator, and finish Phases III and IV of the building project, we must raise $520,000.00 through private sources over the next ten months.

How We Can Do This Together

200 Steadfast Friends commit to donate $100 per month or more.
Steadfast Friends will receive annual Calendars
as well as GRACE T-shirt
 and Quarterly Director’s Progress Report.

200 Faithful Fans commit to donate $50 to $99 per month.
Faithful Fans will receive 2009 GRACE Calendar
and new annual calendar
every year that they continue with automatic monthly donation.

160 Visionaries give one-time gifts of $1,000 or more
to the Building Fund
Visionaries will receive the 2009 Calendar,
a T-shirt and their name engraved on a brick in our front walk,
with a duplicate souvenir brick to save, reading: “I paved the way for justice”, with donor’s name, GRACE’s name and the date.

If donating from outside the U.S. click here.

To make an automatic monthly donation click here.

To make a one time donation to the building fund click here.

Introduce us to New Friends

We are launching an individual donor drive, beginning this holiday season and continuing until our 2009 Annual Fundraiser, this coming June.  During that drive, anyone who introduces us to ten new friends who sign up for automatic monthly donations will receive a GRACE T-shirt and be recognized on our website.  Whoever brings the most new friends to GRACE will be given four free tickets to our annual fundraiser where they will be recognized with a special award.

Contribute to Our Building Fund

Almost four years ago, donors like you make it possible for GRACE to make a downpayment on a home of our own.  You then gave us both funds and labor to help us begin the process of restoring our historic Sixth ward buildings.  We moved from our crowded little attic to our current home in June 2005.  In 2007, we began Phase II of the building plan, to finish the restoration of the existing space.  In 2009, we hope to begin Phase III, expansion of the building to accomodate several new offices and a conference room.  But, we can't do it without you.

Visionaries who donate $1,000 or more to our building fund will have their name engraved on a brick in our front walk and receive a duplicate souvenir brick, reading: “I laid a brick in the foundation of justice”, with donor’s name, GRACE’s name and the date.

Volunteering

GRACE wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the many folks who have volunteered to do everything from preparing and painting our new building, moving furniture, making copies, filing documents, assisting with bookkeeping, and maintaining the web site.  Even if you have only a few hours to spare on the weekends, we could use your help!  We are especially in need of volunteers who can come by on a regular basis during the day. We also need of volunteers in the following areas:
*Accounting and bookkeeping, especially experience with QuickBooks for Non-Profits;
*Carpentry, especially experience with old houses;
*operating a BobKat, even a small one, to grade the soil around our house;
And, ALWAYS general typing, filing, phone answering, cleaning and yard work.
Call (713)869-4722 or email jeremy@gracelaw.org.

What GRACE Needs:

We all know that electronic equipment is expensive.  As our staff writes motions, communicates with team members by email, and keeps tracks of cases, we depend heavily on our computers.  We are in need of funds to help us upgrade our computer equipment and a few other items around the office. 

Computers.  While not all of our computers look like this, many of them run exteremely slowly, and some are about to stop working completely.  We  could use several desktop units and a new laptop for our director.  ($500 - $1000). 

Server.  Our computer server is running out of hard disk space and will soon be outdated.  We depend heavily on it to store all our electronic files.  ($1,200)

Tape Drive to Backup our Files.  We currently back up our files onto a portable hard drive, which is time consuming and in-efficient.  A tape drive can back up all our essential files quickly and automatically.  ($500). 

Teleconferencing phone.  We have frequent conference calls, especially with some of our staff living in other cities.  Using the our current phone system, staff members calling in have difficulty hearing the conversation.   ($300)

Office car.  Our car gets a lot of use.  Staff and interns drive it all over Texas interviewing witnesses and visiting clients.  We could use funds to repair it, or if you’ve got a used car in relatively good shape that you are looking to get rid of, you can make a tax-deductible donation to GRACE.