Key Programs: First Time Homebuyer Classes, Financial Literacy Training, Culinary Arts Classes, Microloan Program, Emergency Loans, Emergency Home Repairs
Phone #: 843-986-1102
Website: www.bcbcc.org
Mission: BCBCC is dedicated to the economic empowerment of African American communities and small businesses… Dedicated to offering products, services and educational programming for multi-cultural business-owners and professionals within the Beaufort and neighboring communities.
Key Programs and Services: Woodland Park, Affordable Housing Program, Homeless Veteran’s Program, Youth Literacy Program
Phone #: 803-328-0123
Website: https://www.cogum-global.org/
Mission: Raise awareness of issues of the decay of poverty that affects so many of our neighbors. Focused on helping those who need it most, giving them a hand up and a path toward hope by providing affordable and low-income housing and apartments.
Key Programs: Food and Clothing, Financial Assistance, Household Furnishings, Dental Care, Medical Clinics, Prescription Assistance Programs, Counseling Services Health Education, Empowerment
Phone #: 843-849-9220
Website: www.eccocharleston.org
Mission: To provide safety net services to our low income neighbors, while empowering them to create a better future for themselves, their families, and our communities.
Key Programs: The Lot, Artisan Gardens, Village Homes, West Market Makers
Phone #: 864-205-1033
Website: https://www.thelotproject.com/
Mission: The LOT Project seeks to cultivate intentional relationships with those in need, to build connections to the opportunities in our community, and to serve our neighbors in creative and empowering ways.
Key Programs: Afterschool Program, Friday Night Club, Summer Enrichment
Phone #: 864-412-8465
Website: http://www.neighborhoodfocus.org/
Mission: Our Mission is to create hope and opportunities for Greenville’s at-risk students through Christ-centered educational and social enrichment.
Key Programs: New America Leadership Scholarship, New America Capital, New America Rentals, New America Development & Construction
Phone #: 803-534-0035
Website: www.new-america.org
Mission: We endeavor to build strong, vibrant, diverse and equitable communities through fostering opportunities in housing, business, and education.
Key Programs: Athletic training program for students, Community-based secondary school program, Certified athletic trainer management program
Counties Served: Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg, Pickens
Phone #: (864) 278-0550
Website: https://playsafeusa.org/
Mission: To support essential sports medicine services to our athletic youth and community by providing certified athletic trainers to secondary schools in our community.
Key Programs: Rural Area Leadership Institute
Phone #: 843-845-2875
Website: https://www.bcbsscfoundation.org/stories/south-carolina-office-rural-health-blueprint-health
Mission: The mission of the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation is to promote and support healthier South Carolinians, particularly the economically vulnerable, by supporting solutions to address gaps in health care and serving as an agent of change to support innovation and value-added public-private partnerships.
Key Programs: Housing Rehabilitation Program, Affordable Rental and Community Service Program, Affordable Housing Development, Social Entrepreneurship Development, Community Needs Assessment, Conflict Analysis and Development, Social Enterprise, Fiscal Sponsorship, Summerton Hemp House Project
Phone #: 803-691-4742
Website: https://scuplift.org/
Mission: SC UpLift Community Outreach’s mission is to empower, enable and support community members in their efforts to revitalize greater midlands area neighborhoods. SC UPLIFT serves as a vehicle through which residents and businesses can work together to solve problems and improve life in their community.
Key Programs: Prison Re-Entry, Soteria House, Soteria at Work, Affordable Housing
Phone #: 864-272-0681
Website: https://soteriacdc.org/
Mission: Soteria CDC advocates for economic and social justice for those and their families impacted by the criminal justice system. We work to create opportunities for previously incarcerated men to reenter society through transitional housing, life skills, and job training.
Key Programs: National Register of Historic Places, Historical Markers, Tax Incentives, Grants, Hurricane Grants
Phone #: 803-896-6196
Website: http://scaaheritagefound.org/
Mission: To support the efforts of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, which are to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina, and to assist and enhance the efforts of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
Key Programs: Youth Academy and Summer Camps, Basic Needs Assistance, Community Outreach, Girl’s Circle, Boy’s Council, Young Mother Support Group, Job Readiness Training
Phone #: 864-705-0005
Website: https://scempower.org/
Mission: In South Carolina, one in five children lives in poverty, and estimates show that in Laurens County alone more than one in four children lives in poverty.* Generational poverty particularly adversely affects a child's educational attainment, health and wellness, and social-emotional development. Here at SCEC, we use evidence-based approaches to support youth and empower them out of the cycle of poverty.
Key Programs: Emergency Shelter, Nutritional Meals, Case Management, Life Skills Training, Vocational Training, Higher Education, Financial Wellness and Stabilization, Job and Health Assistance
Phone #: 864-315-3730
Website: https://www.stepbystephopeproject.org/
Mission: We strive to empower formerly incarcerated women at intake on providing a holistic and comprehensive approach to reentry services that connect to outside community programs on engagement for self-help to 12-Step recovery…Together we make time for peer to peer discussions, demonstrate a craft, prepare a meal or make a favorite dish, create a new hairdo, topic discussions, laughs and giggles together in a family-setting to enhance home life a realization for many formerly-and-currently incarcerated women for positive restoration to reduce harm and increase self-care and engage in activities that is full of joy and motivational.
Key Programs: First-Time Homebuyer Program, Rental Education & Counseling, Fair Housing Rights, Homelessness Services, Credit Counseling, Personal Financial Coaching, Mortgage Assitance, National Farmworker Jobs Program
Phone #: 864-573-8783
Website: https://www.telamon.org/
Mission: Our mission is to provide educational services, but these don’t always occur in a classroom. Telamon-TRC staff members teach customers to access resources in their community, overcome barriers to employment or manage their finances. While not every service we provide will lead directly to better jobs and better lives, what we do often lays the foundation upon which our customers can build a better future.
Key Programs: Employment Support, Healthcare and Benefits Support, Housing Support, Quality of Life Support, Outdoor Recreation Program, Family Services, First Responder Program, Spiritual Support Program, Mental Health Resources
Phone #: 864-520-2073
Website: https://upstatewarriorsolution.org/
Mission: Our mission is to CONNECT warriors and their family members to resources and opportunities, LEAD them through the process of self-empowerment, and INSPIRE the community to embrace local warriors and their family members as valued neighbors and friends.