Giving Together

• Eastern Carolina Community Foundation: Pee Dee Disaster Relief Fund; deadline September 30, 2020

• Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area: COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund; rolling deadline

• Colonial Life Social Justice Fund by Colonial Life, rolling deadline
• Love is Healing COVID-19 Response Fund by Grantmakers for Girls of Color; deadline November 30
• The Power Fund by Robin Hood Foundation

• Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood; deadline September 30, 2020
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize Grant; deadline October 15, 2020 @ 3:00 pm
• The Brave of Heart Fund; deadline May 15, 2021
• Frontlines Leaders Fund: COVID-19 Community Response Grants; rolling deadline.
• Life Comes From It; rolling deadline

1. Catawba Connect COVID-19 Relief Fund for Chester and Lancaster Counties - By United Way of Chester County
2. COVID-19 Community Relief Fund for Greenville County - By United Way of Greenville County
3. COVID-19 Community Relief Fund for Pickens County - By United Way of Pickens County
4. COVID-19 Community Relief Fund for Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee counties - By United Way of Sumter, Lee and Clarendon Counties
5. COVID-19 Community Response Fund for Greenwood County - By Greenwood County Community Foundation, Self Family Foundation, & United Way of Greenwood and Abbeville Counties
6. COVID-19 Fund for Lowcountry including Horry, Georgetown, Williamsburg, Berkeley, Dorchester, Charleston, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper, and Beaufort counties - By Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina
7. COVID-19 Relief and Assistance Fund for Spartanburg County - By Spartanburg County Foundation
8. COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund for Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton and Horry counties - By Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina
9. COVID-19 Relief and Response Fund for Horry County - By United Way of Horry County
10. COVID-19 Response Fund for Kershaw County - By United Way of Kershaw County
11. COVID-19 Response Fund for Richland, Lexington, Orangeburg, Calhoun, Newberry, and Fairfield counties - By United Way of the Midlands
12. COVID-19 Response Fund for Williamsburg and Georgetown counties - By Black River United Way with Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina
13. Lowcountry Community COVID-19 Response Fund for Hampton, Jasper, Beaufort, and Colleton counties - By Community Foundation of the Lowcountry
14. Midlands Community Response Fund for Calhoun, Clarendon, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda, and Sumter counties - By Central Carolina Community Foundation
15. Pee Dee Disaster Relief Fund for Florence, Marlboro, Marion, Williamsburg, Dillon, Chesterfield, and Darlington counties - By Eastern Carolina Community Foundation
16. Tri-County COVID-19 Response Fund for Charleston, Dorchester, and Berkeley counties - By Trident United Way
17. United For All Fund Relief Fund for Spartanburg, Cherokee, and Union counties - By United Way of the Piedmont

1. Richland County COVID-19 Response for first responders, other public safety personnel and vulnerable residents within Richland County - By Richland County Council
2. SC Hospitality Employee Relief COVID-19 Fund for hotel and restaurant workers who are currently experiencing hardship due to COVID-19 - By South Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association

• COVID-19 Support Grants compiled by by Georgia Center for Nonprofits
• GlobalGiving shares list of grant opportunities for nonprofits 
• Coronavirus and COVID-19 Response and Relief Funds compiled by GivingCompass
• Foundation Requests for Proposals for COVID-19 Relief compiled by Chronicle of Philanthropy
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Epidemic Grants for Nonprofit Organizations by Nonprofit Websites

• Relief, Recovery, and Resiliency Fund by AIDS United; open deadline
• Single-Family Housing Grant/Repair Program by USDA provides loans to very-low-income homeowners to repair, improve or modernize their homes or grants to elderly very-low-income homeowners to remove health and safety hazards
• Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs by Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration
• School-Based Healthcare Solutions Network: Student Support Recovery Grant
• Reimagining Pathways to Employment in the U.S. Challenge
• The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

• A List of Volunteer Needs Can be Found Here by the United Way Association of South Carolina
• Serve An Hour hosted by SC Association for Volunteer Administration (SCAVA)
  • Social isolation has been a major contributor to lower morale. Through Serve an Hour, dedicated professionals are able to give back an hour of their time from the comfort of their own homes

• Thanks to Sara Blakely and Spanx, Ohm Radio received a $5,000 grant to support female entrepreneurs through the COVID-19 pandemic; published September 9, 2020

• Sunshine Fund nears $100k goal in COVID-19 relief campaign for Greenville nonprofits by Greenville News; published September 6, 2020

• SC Victims’ Services Groups Awarded Almost $37 Million in Grants by SC Attorney General; published September 3, 2020

• Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation Commits $50 Million for Social Justice by The Chronicle of Philanthropy; published September 2, 2020

• Boeing pledges to hire more Black employees, ups Charleston museum gift to $1M; by The Post & Courier published September 1, 2020

Previous Acts of Kindness That Made Headlines

• Levi Strauss Heir Gives UC Berkeley $24 Million for Diverse and First-Generation Students; August 31, 2020
• University of Tennesse lands $40 million while Spelman receives $10 million from James and Natalie Haslam and their family and Seth and Beth Klarman, respectively; August 24, 2020
• Charles River Donates $30,000 to the Lowcountry Food Bank by The Post & Courier; August 17, 2020
• Duke Energy provides $200,000 in grants to support 18 organizations focused on social justice, racial equity in South Carolina by Duke Energy; August 12, 2020
• NBA Commits $300 Million for Economic Development in Black Communities; August 11, 2020
• SHRM Launches New Initiative to Help Achieve Racial Equity; published August 3, 2020
• New Quick-Start Guide Helps Grant Makers Establish Emergency-Fund Programs by The Chronicle of Philanthropy; published August 5, 2020

As of September 9, 2020...Total giving now tops $11.2 million, Way to go South Carolina!

• Over $3 Million has been raised by the One SC Fund 
• Combined Local & Regional Funds have surpassed $8 million
• Governmental and Other Philanthropic giving tops $3 million

_{We are tracking giving across the state to celebrate our state's generosity. Please email updates to Langley Shealy of SC Grantmakers Network at Langley@SCGrantmakers.com}

_{Please share with us your community's response and collaborative efforts to raise much needed funds so we can help promote. Email Shayne Kinloch of Together SC at Shayne@TogetherSC.org}