✨ Shelters: Get 12 Months of Free Access to The Grove! ReloShare is offering up to one year of free, no-strings-attached access to The Grove—the nation’s first real-time shelter availability platform. Sign up in minutes here, or email us at thegrove@reloshare.com to bring The Grove to your community.
A new chapter in survivor-centered innovation, at no cost.
In a year marked by crisis-level federal funding cuts to victim services, ReloShare is stepping up in a bold, tangible way. We are offering 12 months of free access to The Grove—our real-time shelter availability platform—for every domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking shelter program in the country. This no-cost initiative was inspired by calls to action from the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), whose long-standing advocacy for innovation in the field urged ReloShare to remove financial barriers to access at this pivotal moment.
Why now? Because every minute spent calling shelter after shelter is a minute too long. And because survivors don’t have time to wait.
Advocates Are Facing the Impossible
When beds vanish and funding dries up, frontline staff are forced to do more with less, while still carrying the emotional weight of life-or-death decisions.
- In just one day, NNEDV’s 2024 Domestic Violence Counts Survey found 14,095 unmet requests, with nearly 60% for emergency housing.
- Calls to the Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline spiked by 26% last year, driven in large part by the lack of safe shelter.
- Agencies across the U.S. are grappling with layoffs, budget freezes, and closed beds; a devastating blow to already stretched systems of care.
“Advocates tell us they lose hours—and sometimes days—ringing dozens of shelters before finding space,” says Matt Singley, ReloShare Co-Founder & CEO. “By opening The Grove for free at this critical moment, we’re giving agencies those hours back—time they can use in what matters the most: supporting and protecting survivors.”
How The Grove Is Changing the Equation
The Grove transforms how shelter access works in real time.
- Live, nationwide bed inventory across shelters, transitional housing, and overflow hotels
- Search-once, see-everywhere interface, collapsing multi-day phone marathons into a 5-minute search
- De-identified referrals that safeguard shelter locations and survivor identities
- Smart analytics that show geographic gaps and seasonal patterns—data the field has never had at scale
In Illinois, where The Grove has been adopted statewide, results speak for themselves:
“Our team used to call 10–15 shelters a day,” says Amanda Pyron, President & CEO of The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence. “Now we’re finding space in under 10 minutes. In a funding climate where every staff hour counts, that’s transformational.”
A National Map of Shelter in Real Time
For nearly 20 years, NNEDV’s one-day snapshot survey has helped policymakers and advocates quantify the housing crisis for survivors. Now, with The Grove, we move from snapshot to real-time stream.
“At a time when every dollar must stretch further, generous support of The Grove delivers visibility and coordination to better support survivors and close the housing gap,” says Stephanie Love-Patterson, President & CEO of NNEDV.
This partnership unlocks something we’ve never had before: a live national map of shelter capacity, data to guide targeted resource allocation, and time restored to advocates who just want to help.
How to Enroll—No Cost, No Catch
If you operate a shelter or victim service program, you can enroll in minutes.
🔗 Sign up at www.reloshare.com/products/the-grove
ReloShare’s team will handle onboarding and data migration at no cost to your agency. We’ll also provide live training and dedicated support.
Over the next year, we’ll work shoulder to shoulder with agencies to advocate for long-term funding, so you can keep The Grove in place after the 12-month period ends.
Because Shelter Shouldn’t Be a Scavenger Hunt
At ReloShare, many of us come from direct service work. We understand the heartbreak of saying “we’re full” for the fifth time in one day. We know that behind every “bed request” is a survivor who just wants to feel safe for one night.
The Grove was built for those moments.
And now, for one year, it’s open to every domestic violence, sexual assault, and human‑trafficking shelter program in the country.
We invite you to join us. Not just in using the tool, but in reimagining how shelter access should work in 2025: collaborative, survivor-centered, and instantaneous.
About ReloShare
ReloShare creates technology for social service agencies to secure emergency housing for those in crisis. Its platforms—Safe Stays and The Grove—allow advocates to book safe accommodations without credit cards, IDs, or logistical delays. Learn more at www.reloshare.com.
About NNEDV
The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) is a leading voice for domestic violence survivors and their advocates, representing 56 state and territorial coalitions. NNEDV drives systemic change through policy, practice and public awareness. NNEDV serves on a number of advisory boards, including ReloShare, and has contributed to the survivor-centered design of The Grove. www.nnedv.org
About The Network
The Network is a group of 45 member organizations across Illinois dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers. The Network also acts as the administrator of the Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline www.the-network.org
