Impact - 2011

Greenville Women Giving seeks to fund worthy projects that have the potential for high impact and significant positive change in our community.

Surgeons for Sight

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $40,000

To provide vision screening, eye exams, corrective lenses and cataract surgeries to Greenvillians living at or below the poverty level.

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Carolina First Steps

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $60,000

This grant will increase the capacity of the Nurse Family Partnership, which pairs a nurse with low-income, first-time mothers from pregnancy through each child's second birthday.

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Senior Action, Inc.

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $43,718

To replace and augment insufficient and outdated furnishing so that Senior Action may continue to offer Greenville's elderly appropriate services in safe surroundings.

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The Family Effect

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $47,000

To help design and implement a new residential treatment protocol at Serenity Place for addicted mothers and their children. This treatment model will include intensive addiction therapy, family counseling and therapeutic child care.

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Clarity, Inc.

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $40,000

To replace outdated and aging audiometric equipment so that infants, children and adults will have accurate hearing evaluations.

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Carolina Family Services

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $40,000

To help fund Project Connect, which provides 12-week intensive, in home family therapy services for minority youth who are at risk for placement in the juvenile justice system.

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Camp Spearhead

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $50,000

This grant will subsidize eight one-week sessions of summer camp for children and young adults with special needs, and provide full scholarships where needed.

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Camp Opportunity

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $49,540

To fund a summer camp week of fun in a safe, loving environment for 75 children in DSS protective custody.

Big Brothers, Big Sisters of the Upstate, Inc.

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $40,000

To recruit and train 100 new mentors who will be matched on a one-to-one basis with at-risk youth in Greenville. Big Brothers and Big Sisters work with their mentees to help them stay in school and navigate their way to responsible adulthood.

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Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Greenville (NAMI)

Year Granted:

Grant Amount: $43,742

For the implementation of crisis intervention training for 250 law enforcement and EMS first-responders, training them to recognize and respond appropriately and effectively when dealing with those experiencing psychiatric crises.

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