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Greenville Women Giving is a philanthropic organization founded on the idea that collectively, women can make a real difference.

2017 Annual Meeting and Grant Awardees – More Highlights

Please find links to press articles highlighting our 2017 Annual Meeting and Grant Awardees below: Mental Health Crisis Line, June 13, 2017 Urban League of the Upstate, May 24, 2017 Greenville Business Magazine, May 19, 2017 Upstate Forever, May 10, 2017 UpstateBizSC, May 10, 2017 The Clutch, May 10, 2017 Greenville Journal, May 10, 2017...

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$613,485 Awarded by Greenville Women Giving at Annual Meeting

Total Grants Surpass $4.8 Million GREENVILLE, S.C. — Greenville Women Giving, a 550-member local philanthropic organization, awarded a record-setting $613,485 in grants last evening during its annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency downtown, sponsored by GSP International Airport and Charles Schwab & Co. Since its founding in 2006, Greenville Women Giving has granted more than...

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Founders Receive Order of the Silver Crescent

GREENVILLE, SC – As Governor Nikki Haley prepared to leave office, she awarded the Order of the Silver Crescent to three Greenville community leaders – Frances Ellison, Harriet Goldsmith and Sue Priester. The Order of the Silver Crescent is the state’s highest civilian award for significant contributions, leadership, volunteerism, and lifelong influence within a region...

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Mill Village Farms

Mill Village Farms Videos

The Mill Village Farms program received a  2015 GWG grant of $61,000 to provide stipends for at-risk youth and their adult supervisors. Founded in 2012, Mill Village Farms hires youth who attend weekly classes as they plant, tend, grow and market food in Greenville County’s food deserts.The youth work alongside adult supervisors who teach and...

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Sisterhood of Philanthropy

Click here to be directed to the May 20, 2016 article published by the Greenville Journal. How can we ever thank The Greenville Journal and Town Magazine, 10th Anniversary partners, for their incredible support!

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Darla Moore speaking to GWG

Darla Moore Speaks to Greenville Women Giving

Were it not for a “mere girl,” South Carolina may not have the proud history of its powerful role in creating the economic foundation for this nation. That’s according to Darla Moore, the first woman to have a major business school (at The University of South Carolina) named in her honor. That “mere girl,” as...

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A New Record $541,218 in Grants

Supporting the vulnerable, re-directing lives, providing adequate facilities, and sustaining enhanced opportunities for young people – our grants this year will help the organizations that touch people in all these areas. We received 80 grant applications requesting over $5 million. Sixty-two dedicated and hard-working members of the Grants Review Committee started analyzing these in late...

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