Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina Awards $720,500 in Grant Funding
SOUTH CAROLINA – (November 1, 2021) The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina awarded 95 grants totaling $720,500 to South Carolina nonprofit organizations. Each organization is working to better the lives of those experiencing poverty in South Carolina.
Since 1996, the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina has awarded over 3,200 grants to South Carolina nonprofits totaling nearly $81 million.
“Each of our grantee partners is working towards one common goal: reducing poverty in South Carolina, ” said President Tom Keith. “We’re blessed to provide these organizations with the funding needed to make a positive impact in our state.”
The latest round of grants was awarded to nonprofits that are working to reduce poverty in South Carolina in one of three ways:
- Meeting the immediate needs of people experiencing poverty
- Breaking the cycle of poverty
- Working to change the systems that are considered to be drivers of poverty
Click here to see the latest group of nonprofits to receive the Foundation’s Cycle 2 Grant Awards organized by region of the state. Feel free to reach out if you need assistance connecting with Foundation grantee partners in your area.
About Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina is a ministry of the Sisters of Charity Health System, founded in 1996. In response to God’s call and the spirit of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, the Foundation strategically uses resources to reduce poverty through action, advocacy and leadership. Since its inception, Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina has distributed nearly $81 million to over 3,200 nonprofits working to reduce poverty in the lives of individuals and families in the Palmetto State.
Pee Dee and Grand Strand
Children’s Recovery Center, Inc.
Immediate Needs
Located in: Horry; serving Horry, Georgetown
Habitat for Humanity Georgetown County, SC
Immediate Needs
Located in: Georgetown; serving Georgetown
Immediate Needs
Located in: Florence; serving Florence
United Way of Horry County Inc.
Immediate Needs
Located in: Horry; serving Horry
Vital Aging of Williamsburg County
Immediate Needs
Located in: Williamsburg; serving Williamsburg
Upstate and Northeastern SC
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Greenville
Immediate Needs
Located in: Anderson; serving Anderson
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenwood; serving Greenwood, Abbeville
Brothers Restoring Urban Hope, Inc.
Breaking the Cycle
Located in: Spartanburg ; serving Spartanburg
Community Foundation Of Greenville (Greenville Homeless Alliance)
Systems Level Change
Located in: Greenville ; serving Greenville
Developmental Center for Exceptional Children
Immediate Needs
Located in: Anderson; serving Anderson, Pickens, Oconee
Breaking the Cycle
Located in: Greenville ; serving Greenville
Immediate Needs
Located in: Oconee; serving Oconee
Greenville Free Medical Clinic
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Greenville
Immediate Needs
Located in: Spartanburg; serving Spartanburg, Cherokee, Union
Immediate Needs
Located in: Spartanburg; serving Spartanburg, Orangeburg, Greenville, Lancaster
Immediate Needs
Located in: Spartanburg; serving Spartanburg
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Statewide
Breaking the Cycle
Located in: Greenville ; serving Statewide
Systems Level Change
Located in: Greenville ; serving Greenville
Meals On Wheels Of Greenville Inc
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Greenville County
Meyer Center For Special Children
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, Spartanburg
Breaking the Cycle
Located in: Greenville ; serving Greenville
Systems Level Change
Located in: Spartanburg ; serving Spartanburg
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Greenville
Pickens County Meals On Wheels Inc
Immediate Needs
Located in: Pickens; serving Pickens
Systems Level Change
Located in: Greenville ; serving Greenville
Immediate Needs
Located in: Pickens; serving Statewide
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, Oconee
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, Oconee
St. Luke’s Free Medical Clinic
Immediate Needs
Located in: Spartanburg; serving Spartanburg
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Greenville
Immediate Needs
Located in: Anderson; serving Anderson, Oconee
Immediate Needs
Located in: Laurens; serving Statewide
Immediate Needs
Located in: Greenville; serving Greenville
Midlands
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Richland, Sumter, York
Area Churches Together Serving Acts
Immediate Needs
Located in: Aiken; serving Aiken, Edgefield, Saluda
Central Midlands Justice Ministry
Systems Level Change
Located in: Richland ; serving Richland, Lexington
Community Medical Clinic of Kershaw County
Immediate Needs
Located in: Kershaw; serving Kershaw
Dickerson Children’s Advocacy Center Inc
Immediate Needs
Located in: Lexington; serving Lexington, Richland, Saluda
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Statewide
Immediate Needs
Located in: Lancaster; serving Lancaster, Chester
Kershaw Area Resource Exchange – KARE
Immediate Needs
Located in: Lancaster; serving Lancaster, Kershaw
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Marlboro, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Lexington, Richland, Dorchester, Laurens
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Statewide
Systems Level Change
Located in: Richland ; serving Statewide
Palmetto Place Children and Youth Services
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Richland, Lexington, Charleston, Calhoun, Newberry
Richland County Public Education Partners
Breaking the Cycle
Located in: Richland ; serving Richland
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Richland
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Richland
Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Richland, Lexington, Sumter, Clarendon, Newberry
Immediate Needs
Located in: Lexington; serving Richland, Lexington, Kershaw, Fairfield, Newberry
South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Systems Level Change
Located in: Richland ; serving Statewide
Southeastern Chapter National Safety Council
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Statewide
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Statewide
United Way of Aiken County, Inc. “Project VISION”
Immediate Needs
Located in: Aiken; serving Aiken
Immediate Needs
Located in: Kershaw; serving Kershaw
Breaking the Cycle
Located in: Richland ; serving Fairfield, Lexington, Richland, Orangeburg
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation- Palmetto College
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Lee, Sumter, Kershaw, Clarendon, Colleton, Hampton, Williamsburg
Immediate Needs
Located in: Richland; serving Allendale, Dillion, Clarendon, Hampton
Wholespire (f.k.a. Eat Smart Move More South Carolina)
Systems Level Change
Located in: Richland ; serving Statewide
Women’s Rights And Empowerment Network
Systems Level Change
Located in: Richland ; serving Statewide
Lowcountry
Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired – Charleston
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston
Beaufort-Jasper YMCA of the Lowcountry
Immediate Needs
Located in: Beaufort; serving Beaufort, Jasper
Immediate Needs
Located in: Berkeley; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Bluffton Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine(Development)
Immediate Needs
Located in: Beaufort; serving Beaufort, Jasper
Immediate Needs
Located in: Beaufort; serving Beaufort, Jasper
Boys & Girls Club of the Lowcountry
Immediate Needs
Located in: Beaufort; serving Beaufort, Jasper
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Statewide
Carolina Youth Development Center
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Charleston Area Justice Ministry
Systems Level Change
Located in: Charleston ; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Charleston Promise Neighborhood
Breaking the Cycle
Located in: Charleston ; serving Charleston
East Cooper Community Outreach
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley
Family Promise of Beaufort County Inc.
Immediate Needs
Located in: Beaufort; serving Beaufort, Jasper
Immediate Needs
Located in: Beaufort; serving Beaufort, Allendale, Jasper, Colleton, Hampton
ICNA Relief USA, Shifa Free Clinic
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Colleton
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Colleton, Beaufort, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Williamsburg
Lowcountry Orphan Relief- Midlands
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Richland
Immediate Needs
Located in: Beaufort; serving Beaufort, Jasper
Neighborhood Outreach Connection
Immediate Needs
Located in: Beaufort; serving Beaufort
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Dorchester
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Reading Partners South Carolina
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, Inc
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
South Carolina Community Loan Fund
Breaking the Cycle
Located in: Charleston ; serving Statewide
The Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Cent
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Tri-County Cradle to Career Collaborative
Systems Level Change
Located in: Charleston ; serving Charleston, Berkeley
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester
Volunteers in Medicine Hilton Head Island (VIM HHI)
Immediate Needs
Located in: Beaufort; serving Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton
Immediate Needs
Located in: Charleston; serving Statewide
