Human Services
Triune Mercy Center
Year Granted: 2025
Grant Amount: $50,000
Established in 1989, Triune Mercy Center serves Greenville, SC by providing life-changing opportunities and meeting the needs of the disadvantaged, homeless and vulnerable in Greenville by leveraging resources to empower people toward self-sufficiency and healing. In 2024, TMC served 16,200 people. GWG grant funds will cover the cost of equipment and installation of security cameras to help mitigate illegal activities and deter harmful situations that occur in a recessed entryway at TMC, including drug use, panhandling, people sleeping, and using it as an outdoor toilet. The issue has become so profound it discourages those who are in need of TMC’s services and creates safety risks for all, including the staff and volunteers.
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Rebuild Upstate
Year Granted: 2025
Grant Amount: $100,000
Rebuild Upstate began in 2007 and approaches the affordable housing crisis by focusing on rehabilitation and preservation of existing homes. GWG grant funds will aid in the completion of necessary, but unfunded, home repairs for 40 low-income homeowners over the course of two years.
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Project Host
Year Granted: 2025
Grant Amount: $52,000
Project Host is a soup kitchen and outreach program that has been a vital part of the Greenville Community for 44 years. Their mission is to use food as a tool to nourish the hungry, and to train the unemployed to be self-sufficient through their culinary training program. Their vision is a hunger-free Greenville focused on stable employment and reduced food insecurity. In 2024, Project Host served over 75,000 meals, but forecasted population growth has increased the number of meals needed. GWG grant funds will be used to serve an additional 5,250 meals to Greenville’s most vulnerable population.
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New Morning
Year Granted: 2025
Grant Amount: $90,000
GWG grant funding will support New Morning’s six partnering clinics in Greenville County that provide contraceptive services to low-income, uninsured and underinsured women. It is projected the clinics will serve 7,000 women with free or low-cost contraceptives during the one-year grant period. As a result, it is estimated this may prevent 1,500 unintended pregnancies, 710 unplanned births, 510 abortions and 290 miscarriages resulting from the unintended pregnancies. Additionally, as much as $13 million dollars are saved in maternal and birth-related costs in the county (Guttmacher Data Center analysis).
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Conestee Foundation
Year Granted: 2025
Grant Amount: $100,000
Conestee Nature Park (CNP) is a 640-acre wildlife sanctuary just six miles from downtown Greenville. In September 2024, Hurricane Helene devastated the park and a critical boardwalk known as Woodie Walk, a key connector of the Green Loop trail allowing 200,000 annual visitors fully experience the preserve. GWG grant funds will help build a resilient, stormproof solution reconnecting the Green Loop for all visitors and allowing students to truly experience nature close to home.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate
Year Granted: 2025
Grant Amount: $66,250
BBBSU is an affiliate of the nation’s oldest and largest mentoring organization, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. The one-to-one mentoring program with Greenville County Title I schools is designed to prevent or mitigate the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences from abuse, neglect and household dysfunction, especially among children in low-income households. GWG grant funds will help BBBSU introduce a new approach to childhood trauma intervention that’s designed to add 70 new mentors to teach and train 250 youth how to prioritize their mental health and break generational patterns of trauma; create healthier home environments and reduce county expenses by alleviating the strain on social services, law enforcement and emergency healthcare.
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Greenville Theatre
Year Granted: 2025
Grant Amount: $50,000
Founded in 1926, Greenville Theatre is the oldest and largest professional theatre in the region. It is the cultural cornerstone for the Upstate community, performing at their 571-seat theatre on Heritage Green since 1967. GWG grant funds will help replace dilapidated stage flooring that has not been replaced or refurbished since 1967. Its current condition—marked by holes, weak spots, and ridges—has become a safety concern for the 200+ actors, musicians, technicians, students, and volunteers who utilize the theatre. Work will be completed by August 2025 in time for the start of GT’s 100th Anniversary Season.
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