The partnerships below are not new. Brown Box Movers opened in Denton on January 1, 2009, and each of these relationships has been built up over years of working in the same county.

Denton County Friends of the Family

Denton County Friends of the Family provides free services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. That includes emergency shelter, individual and group counseling, advocacy, transitional housing, and prevention education in schools and across the community. The organization also operates the Building Hope Family Justice Center.

We support the work in two ways. We move survivors and their families, which often means short notice, tight timing, and discretion about where a household is going. We also sponsor DCFOF fundraising events, which is how a good share of those free services get paid for.

If you need help right now

Denton County Friends of the Family runs a crisis line 24 hours a day. You do not have to be in immediate danger to call, and the services are free.

  • 24-hour crisis line: 940-382-7273 or 800-572-4031
  • Text option: 940-382-7273
  • Denton outreach office: 4845 S I-35E, Suite 200, Corinth, TX 76210, 940-387-5131
  • More information: dcfof.org

Giving Grace

Giving Grace works on family homelessness in Denton County from its offices on Teasley Lane, and its current project is a family shelter built to house up to 20 families at a time. Brown Box Movers is one of its Advocate Business Partners, a relationship that now goes back several years.

The practical side is straightforward. When a family leaves a shelter for a place of their own, that is still a move. It still needs a truck, a crew, and somebody to carry a couch up a flight of stairs. That is the part we take, alongside financial support for the events and sponsorships at givinggrace.org.

Food That Would Otherwise Be Thrown Away

Almost every household move leaves food behind. Half a pantry of cans, pasta, and rice that nobody wants to pack and nobody wants to throw away, so it ends up in the trash anyway. Move For Hunger is a national nonprofit that fixes that by adding one step to the move itself, and Brown Box Movers is part of the network.

In 2024, food collected this way through our crews added up to 1,000 meals. Across the whole network, more than 90 million pounds of food has reached food banks since 2009. The three steps below are the entire process, and none of them cost you anything.

Why a Moving Company Does This

There is no complicated reason. We own trucks, we employ people who move heavy things for a living, and those are the two things these organizations run short of. A shelter can find volunteers and it can raise money, but a crew that can empty a house safely in an afternoon is harder to come by.

The sponsorship side matters too. Free counseling, a crisis line that answers at three in the morning, and a shelter bed are all paid for by somebody, and in Denton a good share of that comes from local businesses buying tables at fundraisers. We would rather be one of them.

Where We Show Up

All three organizations work in Denton County, which is also where most of our customers are. The overlap is not a coincidence. A moving company learns a lot about a county by spending seventeen years driving across it, and these are the groups we kept running into. Our areas we serve page lists the cities our crews cover.