Greenville Women Giving announced May 19 it has awarded $525,799 in grant funding to seven Greenville County nonprofits.
“As population soars in Greenville County, so do the needs of our community and non-profits,” said Greenville Women Giving Co-Chair Jane Pannier. “Thanks to our membership and their commitment to contribute to the quality of life for all, we are again able to consistently fund organizations addressing critical needs. The caliber of applications this year was truly extraordinary, yet it underscores the staggering amount of unmet need within our community. Greenville Women Giving remains dedicated to bridging the gap between our vital non-profits and the resources they need to thrive.”
The 2026 grantees, which were selected out of 90 grant applications, include:
- ReCraft Creative Reuse Center – $52,040 for Launching Greenville’s (Second!) Creative Reuse Center, which will collect donations from Upstate manufacturers, retailers, institutions and households and redistribute the materials to schools, festivals, makers, crafters, artists and students.
- Augustine Literacy Project of the Upstate – $97,759 to hire a program coordinator who, in turn, will train more tutors, serve more struggling young readers and meet the rising demand across Greenville County.
- Blue Ridge Council, Scouting America – $100,000 for Camp Old Indian Lake Cleanup, which will remove six feet of sediment from that Hurricane Helene dumped in the lake. The funding will also pay for a permanent, sustainable berm addition to prevent future sediment from entering the lake.
- Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired SC – $25,000 for vision rehabilitation training for Greenville adults, which includes adaptive and practical skills for daily living, such as meal preparation, medication management, assistive technology use and safe travel.
- Feed & Seed Co. – $70,000 for capital investments to SCALE for Sustainability, which will help Greenville County Schools students to receive increased access to healthy South Carolina grown food, while also providing local small and medium sized farmers with a reliable market.
- Unity Health on Main – $100,000 for its Healing the Heart of District 25 program, which will allow the nonprofit to expand clinic hours to three days per week so more families can receive essential services, such as physical and mental health screenings led by a family nurse practitioner, bilingual mental health counseling and support from a community health worker.
- Julie Valentine Center – $81,000 to be used for forensic interviews for children. The grant will be used to support the nonprofit’s services as the sole provider of trauma-informed forensic interviews in Greenville County.
Grants are funded by the contributions of Greenville Women Giving members.
Since its inception in 2006, GWG has awarded 166 grants to 97 nonprofits for a collective total of over $9.5 million. For more information, visit greenvillewomengiving.org.
