Social Services
American Leprosy Missions
is the oldest and largest U.S. organization devoted to restoring the lives of people affected by leprosy, is a non-denominational Christian non-profit organization. We support projects throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Located in downtown Greenville, we need volunteers for switchboard relief, mailings, general clerical, and maintenance.
Parentwise
is a network of Parent Resource Centers located in Beaufort, Florence, Greenville, Lexington, and York Counties with the administrative office in Columbia. Some of the resources provided for parents by each center may be: home visitation to assist with effective parenting; pre-school kids clubs; pregnant and parenting teens groups; and fathers groups.
Crossroads Group Home for Girls
Crossroads Group Home programs facilitate emotional healing and growth, physical health, basic education, restorative independent living skills, social and recreational functioning and vocational pursuit. For those served who are emotionally handicapped, the emphasis is on the restorative and/or establishment of competence.
Alston Wilkes Society
provides support services to adult and juvenile offenders, former offenders and the homeless. Services include case management, employment assistance and referrals to other resources as needed. For more information, or the office closest to you, call our main office at 
(803) 799-2490.
Goodwill Industries of Upper SC, Inc.
helps people with disabilities and special needs become fully independent citizens through training and employment leading to job placement. It provides rehabilitation service, training, work adjustment, employment opportunity, and placement in competitive industry for people with disabilities and special needs.
864-467-3200
Shepherd’s Gate
has earned a reputation in Northern California for rebuilding shattered lives. Since 1984, we have helped over 7,600 battered and homeless women and children. Call 864-268-4357 for more information.
United Minsitries
is an extension of the servant ministry of local cooperating congregations. United Ministries assists poor people in emerging from hurting situations by providing for basic needs and by creating environments which allow people to make positive life changes.
The Blood Connection
The Blood Connection has been serving the Greenville area for 25 years, working to ensure that healthcare partners have an adequate, safe, cost-effective blood supply.
Ronald McDonald House
is working to better the lives of children and their families around the world. The three core programs of RMHC – the Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald Family Room and Ronald McDonald Care Mobile – are focused on helping families in need. Call 864-235-0506 for more information.
864-235-0506
Birthright Emergency Pregnancy Line
1-800-550-4900 or 864-281-7677.
SC Center for Grassroots & Nonprofit Leadership
Clemson, SC
The Center seeks to actively build capacity and enhance resources of community and faith-based grassroots groups, nonprofit organizations, and individuals that are challenged to provide leadership and improve community life.
Phyllis Wheatley Association
Started by Hattie Logan Duckett in 1919, the Phillis Wheatley Association was an organization that originally provided a social academic center for young African American women in Greenville, South Carolina. Today, 83 years later, the Phillis Wheatley Association caters to the needs of a diverse population throughout Greenville County and offers a wide range of services from serving meals to senior citizens to caring for preschoolers in a daycare program, from providing a Repertory Youth Theater for creative expression to hosting a nationally credentialed Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
Upstate Homeless Coalition
The Upstate Homeless Coalition of South Carolina is a private, non-profit organization. UHCSC is a collaborative organization dedicated to ending homelessness through programming, advocacy, and building safe and affordable housing.
American Red Cross – Upstate Chapter
Serving Greenville and Laurens counties. Call 864-271-8222 in Greenville and 864-938-6306 in Clinton.
Pendleton Place Children’s Shelter
The mission of the Shelter is to facilitate residential care programs in Greenville County, South Carolina, for children and youth, including, but not limited to, children who are abused, neglected or abandoned, who have run away from home, whose parents are injured or incarcerated, or who are otherwise without parental care
Miracle Hill Minsitries
exists that those most in need receive food, shelter, and compassion while hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ and becoming productive members of society. The motto is, “If you cannot find a friend in the world, you can find one here”.
Piedmont Women’s Center
Free and confidential services include, but are not limited to: free pregnancy tests with immediate results and confidential counseling; a safe and secure place to talk about your feelings and explore all your alternatives; limited ultrasounds through your first trimester; referrals for medical and legal aid and information; and information and counceling about sexually transmitted diseases.
For nearly 40 years, The South Carolina Centers for Equal Justice, and its predecessors, through its offices in Anderson, Greenville and Spartanburg have been providing free civil legal assistance to the low income community in the Upstate. Call toll-free,
303 East River Street, Anderson
701 South Main Street, Greenville
148 East Main Street, Spartanburg
1-888-346-5592.
SHARE
Sunbelt Human Advancement Resources, Inc. (SHARE) is a Community Action Agency (CAA) serving Greenville, Anderson, Pickens and Oconee counties. We are a non-profit agency that provides a wide range of services to low and moderate-income residents in upstate South Carolina. The mission of SHARE is to help low-income individuals, families, and neighborhoods become self-sufficient.
Operation Comfort
Fort Gordon, Augusta, GA
Operation Comfort is a special program in Army Community Service (ACS) that was established to support deployed service members and their families. Support through Operation Comfort may come in the form of respite childcare, outings or other events that boost morale, family members directly purchasing goods for service members and their families.
1-877-310-5741
Greer Community Ministries
serves and supports its elderly neighbors who are unable to prepare or secure food for themselves through our Mobile Meals program. The organization also provides a Senior Dining program and transportation as an outlet for those facing isolation and provides emergency food and clothing assistance for the disadvantaged within the Greater Greer area.
Alzheimer’s Association – Upstate SC Chapter
The Alzheimer’s Association–Upstate South Carolina Chapter– is a non-profit charitable tax-exempt, voluntary health organization dedicated to family support, education, research, and advocacy. The National headquarter is located in Chicago. There are approximately 4.5 million persons affected by Alzheimer’s Disease or related dementia in the United States. It is estimated that 50,000 of those are in SC. Call 864-250-0029 in Greenville and 800-273-2555 in Anderson.
SC Association of Nonprofit Organizations
Columbia, SC
The mission of the S.C. Association of Nonprofit Organizations (SCANPO) is to serve, support and strengthen nonprofit organizations for a better South Carolina. SCANPO’s website features a search of all member nonprofit agencies, including social service organizations.
Sterling Community Center
offers a variety of programs for youth, including after-school programs, intramural basketball, and special events.
Southside Unity in the Community
Spartanburg, SC
Southside Unity in the Community is dedicated to promoting volunteerism within the Southside community. The program intends to make available in one central location resources, training and opportunities that will encourage volunteerism. Southside Unity in the Community strives to lead by example. Volunteerism is rarely taught in the Southside Community; it is our hope that this program managed entirely by volunteers will inspire volunteerism in present and future generations.
864-621-7209
Family Preservation & Child Welfare Network
The Mission of this web site is to improve the quality of life for families and children by advocating information sharing to create positive changes.
Down Syndrome Family Alliance of Greenville
welcomes you to join in honoring the lives and potential of adults and children with Down syndrome.
Rape Crisis Centers of South Carolina
gives help to victims of rape in South Carolina. Call 803-467-3633 for more information.
Endometriosis Association Support Group for the Upstate
is for women who have endometriosis and would like to come together to discuss tips on how to deal with endo. Please emailUpstateSCEndoAssn@hotmail.com for more information
First Steps
South Carolina First Steps to school Readiness (‘First Steps’) is a comprehensive, results-oriented statewide education initiative to help prepare our children to reach first grade healthy and ready to succeed.
- Anderson Count First Steps, call 864-222-0410.
- Greenville County First Steps, call 864-467-3239.
- Oconee County First Steps, call 864-882-3236.
- Pickens County First Steps, call 864-654-3000.
Lutheran Family Services
offers adoption services, foster care, family counseling, and more. Call 864-848-3804.
Community Food Bank of the Piedmont
is an umbrella organization serving as a central distribution warehouse for hundreds of food pantries, emergency shelters, churches, food kitchens and other ministries across the Upstate. Through our network agencies, The Community Food Bank of the Piedmont is able to reach the nearly 175,000 hungry individuals living in the ten (10) counties we serve. Among this harsh figure, nearly 60,000 are children.
A Child’s Haven
offers programs designed to provide a rich, warm, loving, and supportive, family-like environment where your child may develop socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually.
Iron Disorders Institute
Iron Disorders Institute exists so that people with iron disorders receive early, accurate diagnosis, appropriate treatment and are equipped to live in good health. Iron disorders are conditions of Iron-Out-of-Balance™ : iron deficiency anemia, anemia of inflammation, iron overload and iron overload with anemia. Abnormal iron levels can be fatal. Also visit www.hemochromatosis.org.
GAIHN
(Greenville Area Interfaith Hospitality Network) works to assist local congregations to share hospitality (in the form of emergency lodging and meals) with homeless families, and to help those families achieve self-sufficiency and self-fulfillment.
Sable Rescue, Inc.
is located in Greenville South Carolina. The organization pulls animals under death sentence from animal control and shelters who do not have room for them any longer, and keeps the animals until a home can be found for them. Sable Rescue supports spay and neuter programs.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
1-800-FIGHTMS
The mission of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is to end the devastating effects of MS.
United Way of Greenville County
Since 1922, United Way of Greenville County has been a caring force in our community, working to identify our community’s most critical needs, then ensuring that programs are in place to impact those needs. United Way, its volunteers, and 46 community partner agencies, work together to get results by building a healthier, stronger community – changing lives throughout Greenville County for the better.
Greenville Literacy Association
The mission of Greenville Literacy Association is to empower adults to participate more effectively in the community by providing quality instruction in reading, writing, math and speaking English. Call 467-3456 for more information.
Bethany Christian Services
Bethany is widely known as an adoption agency, but our Christian care extends to people struggling with unplanned pregnancies, infertility, and a multitude of other challenges. For more than sixty years, Bethany has responded with compassion, integrity, and commitment to the needs of children and families.
Red Ribbon Works
Red Ribbon Works is a parent-based community coalition, designed to get parents involved because they are the first line of defense in keeping kids off drugs. The coalition makes the community aware of the need to prevent and intervene on an ongoing basis.
International Center of the Upstate
The International Center of the Upstate promotes cross culture understanding between international and local members of the Upstate. We offer language classes, social clubs, English conversation classes, as well as an active International Women’s Club. We can be contacted at info@internationalupstate.org.
Affirm
serves the entire nine-county area known as the Upstate and provides a safe place where GLBTQ youth meet and form friendships, build positive self esteem, and develop skills necessary for dealing with a negative environment.
Shiphrah Ministries
is a maternity home for girls under 21 in Belton, SC. Call 864 338-4673 for more information.
864 338-4673
Greenville Forward
is a non-political, non-profit organization which shepherds, champions, and facilitates achieving Greenville Vision 2025 goals and initiatives. The Vision focuses on sixteen areas such as the arts, government, transportation, healthcare, environment, education, and even coolness. For more information, embrace the vision and learn more at www.greenvilleforward.com, or call Russell Stall at 233-8443.
Killingsworth, Inc.
Columbia, SC
Killingsworth is a transitional home for women emerging from crisis situations. The home serves women from across the southeast, including Greenville, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, and surrounding counties.
Carolina Pregnancy Center for Children
Offering compassionate support to women who are experiencing unplanned pregnancies. Confidential and personal counseling. Help with physical needs.
MEALS ON WHEELS of Greenville
MEALS ON WHEELS is a home-delivered hot meal service for persons who are unable to prepare their own food, primarily the frail elderly who are confined to their homes.
United Minsitries
United Minsitries is an extension of the servant ministry of local cooperating congregations. United Ministries assists poor people in emerging from hurting situations by providing for basic needs and by creating environments which allow people to make positive life changes.
Women Build
Women Build, a subsection of Habitat for Humanity, is a group of all-women volunteers who unite each year to raise funds and gather workers (female only) to build a home for a needy single woman with children.
Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County
is a Christian housing ministry building simple, affordable homes for deserving, needy families. Habitat homeowners buy their homes at cost with a 20 year, interest free loan – and must perform 400 hours of “sweat equity” building their own home or other Habitat homes. We provide a “hand up” instead of a “hand out”.
Calvary Home for Children
The mission of Calvary Home for Children in Anderson, SC is to present the hope of Christ to children who are without adequate family structure and in need of a long-term, Christ-centered home.
Safe Harbor, Inc.
helps with emergency shelter, counseling, case management, and other related services to victims of domestic violence and their children. The local hotline is 864-467-3636; the toll-free hotline number is 800-291-2139.
800-291-2139, 864-467-3636
Greenville Rape Crisis and Child Abuse Center
Greenville Rape Crisis and Child Abuse Center (GRCCAC) provides programs for the treatment, support and advocacy of child, teen and adult survivors of sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse and child abuse. Services include a 24/7 hotline, accompaniment to the ER for sexual assault victims, therapy, support groups, educational programs, parent education and support groups and more. Walk-ins welcome. 24/7 Hotline: 864-467-3633; Administrative offices: 864-331-0560.
SC Ovarian Cancer Foundation
This is an organization brought together by ovarian cancer patients, healthcare providers, and other concerned individuals for the dissemination of information about ovarian cancer. It has been designed for the patients, for support, for education of the public and healthcare providers, and for the furthering of research in ovarian cancer in the state of South Carolina. The Foundation has affiliations with major gynecologic oncology centers in this state.
Hands On Greenville
Hands On Greenville was founded ten years ago in response to this challenge, with the goal of creating, organizing, and leading meaningful service projects that positively impact Greenville County. For additional information, visit Hands On Greenville.
Daily Bread Ministries
This Greer, SC Soup Kitchen is a nonprofit, charitable organization operated solely by volunteers. The soup kitchen was created when concerned citizens in the Greer area saw the people in their town were going hungry.
Urban League of the Upstate
The Urban League of the Upstate is a non-profit organization committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all citizens in housing, education, employment, and economic development, without regard to race or socioeconomic status.
Commission for the Blind – South Carolina
The South Carolina Commission for the Blind is a state agency created to provide rehabilitation services, adjustment to blindness training, prevention of blindness, independent living services and various other services to blind and severely visually impaired citizens of South Carolina.
Connie Maxwell Children’s Home
provides hope for children and families dealing with difficult situations in their lives. This residential childcare ministry is headquartered in Greenwood, SC with four other campuses across the state
Anderson Crisis Life Pregnancy Center
864-231-0077
CRISISLine
CRISISLine for anyone, anytime, any reason, 24 hours. (864) 271-8888 (Greenville) or (864) 582-1100 (Spartanburg)
SC Department of Social Services
Columbia, SC
This state agency offers servies and support for families and children.
AID Upstate
For more information, call (864) 250-0607.
Battered Woman/Domestic Violence Hotline
Help is only a phone call away…
1-800-334-2836
Muscular Dystrophy Association
864-241-7980
Easter Seals South Carolina
864-232-4185
Mental Health Association of Greenville – TEENline
Call 864-467-3344, TEENline: 864-467-TEEN (467-8336).
Operation Andrew Ministry -
864-242-2911
Partners for a Heathy Community
works to improve the health and well-being of the people of Anderson, SC and the surrounding counties.