The Community Foundation of Greenville awarded $400,000 in grants to 17 local nonprofits, the charity announced Nov. 18.
The funds were distributed in two categories, Capacity Building Grants and the Margaret Linder Southern Endowment Fund.
Capacity building grants are used to help improve an organization’s ability to achieve its mission, sustain itself over time and have a quantifiable impact on the community in which it serves.
The 2022 recipients include:
- Center for Developmental Services – $8,500
- Clarity Inc. – $9,700
- Homes of Hope – $10,000
- Jasmine Road Inc. – $9,000
- Junior Achievement of Greater SC – $5,000
- Meals on Wheels of Greenville – $7,500
- Nehemiah Community Revitalization Corporation – $4,000
- Pendleton Place – $6,400
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Carolinas – $7,500
- Servants for Sight – $10,000
- Sustaining Way – $8,500
- Travelers Rest Farmers Market – $3,900
- YouthBASE – $10,000
“The Community Foundation is pleased to provide this critical capacity building support to help the selected nonprofit organizations more effectively and efficiently meet the needs of those they serve,” said Community Foundation Board Chair Liz Seman. “We are grateful for the many donors who help make these grants possible.”
The charity also presented $300,000 to five nonprofits from the Margaret Linder Southern Endowment Fund, which awards half of its annual funds to the Greenville Humane Society and the other half to organizations that benefit or provide services for early childhood education and special education for children and youth.
The 2022 recipients include:
- Greenville Humane Society – $150,000
- A Child’s Haven – $36,000
- Center for Developmental Services – $24,000
- Greenville First Steps – $40,000
- Meyer Center for Special Children – $50,000
Since 2014, the Community Foundation of Greenville has awarded $900,000 to local nonprofits through its capacity building grants and over the past nine years, the Margaret Linder Southern Endowment Fund has given over $3 million to local nonprofits.
