Surgeons for Sight
Year Granted: 2011
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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Greenville Women Giving seeks to fund worthy projects that have the potential for high impact and significant positive change in our community.
Carolina First Steps
Year Granted: 2011
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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Year Granted: 2011
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To replace and augment insufficient and outdated furnishing so that Senior Action may continue to offer Greenville's elderly appropriate services in safe surroundings.
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Year Granted: 2011
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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Year Granted: 2011
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To replace outdated and aging audiometric equipment so that infants, children and adults will have accurate hearing evaluations.
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Year Granted: 2011
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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Year Granted: 2011
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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Year Granted: 2011
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: 2011
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.
Visit WebsiteAlliance for the Mentally Ill of Greenville (NAMI)
Year Granted: 2011
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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