Community Partners

Center for Community Services

The Center for Community Services (CCS) is a multiservice center offering easy access to human services in Greenville County. They provide many direct services including case management, emergency assistance, education, and referrals.

Contact
Katie Tuten: 864.546.1893

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Christian Learning Centers of Greenville County

Christian Learning Centers of Greenville County exists to provide biblical instruction to school-aged children as an opportunity to encourage them to embrace the Gospel of Jesus Christ, grow in the Christian faith, and apply biblical principles for living.

Contact
Janice Butler: [email protected]864.242.2326 (Office)

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Circles Greenville County

Circles Greenville County is a community initiative involving volunteers who help families in poverty exit poverty forever. Their mission is to inspire and equip families and communities to prosper.

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Community Care Upstate – PRISMA Health

What is the Community Care Program?
The Community Care Program consists of a group of volunteers who work together to provide practical, emotional and spiritual support to patients in the community. They assist patients who need basic assistance in their homes. The scope of this program is to meet non-medical needs. A team's activities may include transportation to a doctor's appointment or grocery store, household or yard chores, errands, meals, social outings, visits, phone calls, prayers, relief for primary caregivers, etc.

Population Served:
Vulnerable patients discharged from Greenville Memorial Hospital identified as high-risk for re-admission and/or two or more of the following criteria:
  • The patient is chronically ill.
  • The patient is uninsured or underinsured.
  • The patient is not homebound but requires additional assistance.

Volunteer Teams:
A team can consist of any number of members – typically 2 to 20. Each team has a Team Captain who will be the point of contact for team members and coordinate the team's schedule. The Program Staff will provide team members with training and ongoing support. Volunteers will choose how many hours they serve each month and designate the skills they have to offer for the discharged patient.

Contact
Emily Picardi: [email protected]864.360.8355

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Foster & Adopt Resource Center

Serves and supports over 35 foster, adoptive and kinship care families each month. Opportunities to serve include:
  • Help receive, sort and organize donations of needed items.
  • Help distribute items to families who visit.
The Resource Center is located at 2701 Wade Hampton Blvd. It is open to the public on Tuesdays 9–10 am, Thursdays 6:30–7:30 pm, and the second Saturday of each month 9–10 am. However, there are opportunities to serve at other times.

For more information or to get involved, contact Tricia Ten Pas at [email protected].

Generations Group

Generations works with adolescent and pre-adolescent males who are in primary need of specialized services for abusive behaviors. A therapeutic environment promotes and rewards positive change.
  • Various volunteer projects.
  • 821 Dunklin Bridge Road, Fountain Inn SC.

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Habitat for Humanity

Brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. Accelerate and broaden access to affordable housing as a foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty.

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Mauldin Miracle League

A baseball organization for special needs children in the Upstate.
  • Allows developmentally and physically challenged children to play baseball in a non-judgemental, fun and social environment.
  • Volunteers pair up with Mauldin Miracle League participants for a game.
  • Opportunities are available each Spring and Fall

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Miracle Hill Ministries

Provides extensive services to individuals and families in the form of food, shelter, clothing, personal development, addiction recovery support, and residential and foster care for children.
  • Monthly volunteer opportunities are available varying from service opportunities to item donations.

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Nothing But Jesus Street Ministries

Feeding the Homeless in Downtown Greenville.
  • 1st, 4th and 5th Saturdays.
  • 3:30–5 pm at River of Life Outreach Ministry.
  • 27 2nd Avenue, Greenville SC.

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Pass It Forward

Brings men and women's time and talent together to repair and improve a family's physical, emotional and spiritual environment.

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Patewood Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center

Offers skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for both short stay recovery as well as ongoing supportive services for individuals requiring long-term care.
  • 2 Griffith Road, Greenville
  • Play Bingo, visit with residents, and make crafts at the facility.

For more information or to volunteer, contact Renee Cooper at [email protected] or 864.810.6104.

Project Host

Project Host alleviates hunger and provides job training through several programs that each tackle a different aspect of food insecurity.

Contact
Diane Martin: [email protected]864.235.3403

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Set Free

Gives new life to rescued rock quarry slave children and other abandoned children of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Ministry Leader
Sarah Kelley: [email protected]864.469.9500

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Servants for Sight

Servants for Sight was founded with the mission to help disadvantaged people, both locally and abroad, get the eye care they need to lead productive lives in glorification of God. Their goal is to follow the model of Jesus by bringing hope and healing to the world through the gift of sight.

Contact
Amy Evette: [email protected]864.249.7037 ext. 5

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SWITCH

SWITCH's mission is to fight human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the Upstate of South Carolina through awareness, prevention, fighting demand, intervention and restoration.

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Taylors Free Medical Clinic

Taylors Free Medical Clinic is a faith based clinic whose mission is to minister to the mind, body, and spirit of the medically indigent and uninsured of Greenville County.

Contact
Karen Salerno: [email protected]864.244.1134

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Triune Mercy Center

Ministers alongside the homeless in downtown Greenville meeting physical needs and life changing opportunities to the disadvantaged.
  • One Sunday evening a quarter.
  • 222 Rutherford Road, Greenville.
  • Prepares and serves a meal.

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World Relief Upstate SC

World Relief Upstate SC partners with local churches to welcome refugees from across the globe as they resettle in Greenville and Spartanburg counties. By providing support with initial housing, access to healthcare, nutrition, education and employment opportunities, World Relief and its partners walk alongside our new neighbors as they make the Upstate home. Through intentional collaboration, refugees are welcomed by the Upstate, connected through mutually transformative friendships, and empowered in community as they rebuild their lives here.

Church and Volunteer Engagement Coordinator
Austin Donahoo: [email protected]864.729.8655

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Other Outreach Activities

The Blood Connection Blood Drive

Supports healthcare partners with adequate, safe, cost-effective blood supplies and services. Brookwood is an established emergency donation site.

Two Blood Connection buses are stationed in the Brookwood Parking lot four Sundays a year.

Brookwood Family Food Drive

Held in the Spring. Donations are shared with Center for Community Services.