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: Financial Literacy and Empowerment Program, Community Supportive Services Program, IDA/Home Ownership Program, Quality Affordable Rental and Housing Program, Youth Re-Entry and Aftercare Assistance Program
Key Programs: Repairing home of low-income residents to make homes safer, healthier, and more livable
Phone #: 864-603-2708
Website: https://rebuildupstate.org/
Mission: We envision an Upstate where everyone has the opportunity to live a life of dignity in a safe home environment in order to maintain and foster strong, sustainable communities. We engage with community partners to provide funding and volunteer support for home repair. The idea is simple: if you protect the home, you protect the homeowner inside it. The best home for a homeowner at-risk in the affordable housing crisis is the home they already own.
Key Programs: Rembert Youth Center Afterschool Care, Summer Camp, Senior Citizens Center, Community Long Term Care, Benefit Bank Program, Emergency Food Bank, HIV Task Force, Anti-Poverty Task Force, One World Task Force
Phone #: 803-420-1255
Website: http://www.raccinc.org/
Mission: Encourage the residents of Rembert, South Carolina to effectively work together to build a thriving township.
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: SC Help, Rehabilitation Programs, SC 33% Tax Credit Program, Rental Program
Phone #: 803-436-0020
Website: http://slcdc.net/slcdc2015/index.php
Mission: We are an independent, community based, nonprofit with a Mission to enhance communities by creating quality, safe, decent and affordable housing and other forms of economic opportunities that benefit low to moderate income individuals living in 15 county service areas in South Carolina.
Key Programs: Eliminating substandard housing locally through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes; ReStore
Phone #: 843-768-0998
Website: https://www.seaislandhabitat.org/
Mission: Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
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 & Services: Personal checking & savigs accounts, IRA accounts, Community Recovery Initiative, Home Mortgage Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards, Auto Loans, Business Accounts, Commercial Loans, SBA Loans, Commercial Real Estate Development Program, Financial Coaching
Phone #: 864.438.2421 x3140
Website: https://www.self-help.org/
Mission: Self-Help Credit Union’s mission is creating and protecting ownership and economic opportunity for all, especially people of color, women, rural residents and low-wealth families and communities. Self-Help Credit Union does this by this by providing responsible financial services, lending to small businesses and nonprofits, developing real estate and promoting fair financial practices.
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: Financial Education and Trainings, Adovcacy, Underwrite and Finance QFEs
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Website: http://www.sccommunitycapital.org/
Mission: Our mission is to facilitate the investment of capital in South Carolina in order to improve the quality of life for all her citizens by providing responsible and affordable financial products and services that are a major catalyst for community and economic growth in under-served neighborhoods and communities.
Key Programs: Lending, Technical Assistance, Advocacy and Policy, Assessment and Knowledge Sharing
Phone #: 843-973-7285
Website: https://sccommunityloanfund.org/
Mission: To advance equitable access to capital to build assets and benefit the communities and people most in need of economic opportunity. Acknowledging that the need for our work is rooted in generations of injustice and disinvestment, we focus on serving people of color, women, low-income individuals, and those in rural communities.
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: Areas of legal services include: consumer/finance, education, elder law, employment, family, health, housing, income maintenance/public benefits, immigration/migrant, tax
Phone #: 803-744-4179
Website: https://sclegal.org/
Mission: South Carolina Legal Services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income South Carolinians.
Key Programs: Neighborhood Initiative Program, Benefit Access (Healthy Connections Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medically Indigent Assistance Program), Repurpose Warehouse, Affordable Housing, Rental Housing, Owner Occupied Rehab, Homebuyer Counseling
Phone #: 803-534-9950
Website: http://southeasternhcd.org/
Mission: To build sustainable communities by stimulating economic development, creating affordable housing opportunities, and empowering individuals and families towards self-sufficiency.
Key Programs: Affordable Housing, Rental Housing, Housing Repairs, Housing Grants
Phone #: 803-793-2046
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