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Please choose from one of the following types of nonprofits and community organizations:
Animal & Wildlife Rescue in Greenville
- Animal rescue in the SC Upstate
These animal rescue organizations – all of which are based in Greenville or nearby areas of the South Carolina's Upstate – provide care and refuge for cats, dogs, horses, rabbits, and other domestic animals.
- SC wildlife rescue, rehabilitation
Have you found an injured wild animal? This guide can help you locate a licensed rehabber in South Carolina. It also lists the many great places you can volunteer to help native critters in need.
- World Parrot Trust
With the US branch in Travelers Rest, this global organization works to help save wild parrots from extinction and to ensure that companion parrots live long, healthy and happy lives.
Arts & Cultural Organizations in Greenville
- Greenville art & culture
These Greenville nonprofits focus on various art forms including music, dance, visual arts, theater, and more.
- Greenville music
Learn about Greenville music including bands, symphonies, musical education organizations, and more.
Greenville Community Improvement Groups
- Center for Community Services
This Simpsonville group seeks to help residents of southern Greenville County connect with human services and cultural and educational activities.
- Community Foundation of Greenville
Brings individuals, businesses, and charitable organizations together to provide resources to improve the lives of Greenville County residents.
- Greater Good Greenville
Greater Good Greenville galvanizes nonprofit organizations, philanthropic funders, and mission-minded businesses and individuals for collaborative problem-solving and learning, advocacy, and joint investing to address our community's challenges.
- Junior League of Greenville
The Junior League of Greenville is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
- Mill Village Farms
This nonprofit plants gardens in vacant properties by working with neighborhood children. Their goals are to support young entrepreneurs and to grow locally-sourced produce for communities that often have limited access to fresh and local foods.
- Phillis Wheatley Community Center
This nonprofit offers a variety of programming for the Greenville community including youth activities, athletics and senior socials.
- Pleasant Valley Connection
The mission of this group is to connect neighborhood residents, families, churches, businesses, and other organizations in a coordinated effort to improve the education, health, well-being, and community involvement in Greater Pleasant Valley residents and surrounding communities.
Education & Literacy Organizations
- Chapman Foundation
The mission of this Greenville-based organization is to provide educational opportunities by providing college scholarships for underprivileged students.
- EnTech Robotics
This nonprofit organization in Greenville promotes engineering and technology through FIRST robotics teams and community outreach.
- Financial Kick Start
This Piedmont-based organization educates high school students with the knowledge of how to achieve financial freedom.
- Greenville Literacy Association
This not-for-profit group seeks to enrich the Greenville community by increasing the literacy and employability of its adult citizens.
- I Am Changed
Works to advance the appreciation of music and visual arts by producing and offering educational films, documentaries, and animations, while teaching these arts to the youth and disadvantaged of Greenville County.
- Public Education Partners of Greenville County
Public Education Partners collaborates with the community, educators, and elected officials to support and strengthen public education and student achievement in Greenville County Schools.
- Roper Mountain Astronomers
A nonprofit club with the mission to promote astronomy and science to families, schools, and the communities around Greenville with meetings open to the public.
- STRIDES
STRIDES is a faith-based nonprofit educational program that provides individual academic instruction to Greenville-area children who are at risk for academic failure. In order to make services available to families of all economic levels, STRIDES employs a sliding fee scale.
- Urban League of the Upstate
The Greenville branch of the Urban League works to enable African Americans to better their lives through education, job training, and employment.
- YouthBASE
This after-school program works to help children in grades K5-2 overcome behavioral, academic, social, and emotional difficulties.
Environmental Nonprofits in the SC Upstate
Family Support & Assistance in Greenville
These Greenville groups provide support for families and children in need.
- Carolina Family Services
Provides provides community based therapeutic services to children and their families in Upstate South Carolina.
- Child Freedom Coalition
Based in Greenville, Child Freedom Coalition works to rescue children from slavery in India and give them new life through education and vocational training.
- Compassionate Friends
This group provides support and aid for bereaved parents and families in Greenville.
- Defenders For Children
This organization works to prevent child abuse through projects that raise community awareness, educate adults and children, and increase community involvement.
- Eleos
Eleos is a neighborhood-focused ministry, working with middle and high school students in the Nicholtown community.
- The Family Effect
The Family Effect works to reduce addiction as a leading cause of family collapse and harm to children.
- Fostering Great Ideas
Based in Greenville, this organization improves the experience for children in foster care by building dignity, personal relationships, and sense of community.
- GOAT
Leveraging the outdoors to equip students in their God-given potential and then elevate them through discipleship and relationship to a position of leadership by hiring them as junior guides to lead outdoor adventure trips.
- Happy Wheels
Once each week, Happy Wheels volunteers make rounds to each inpatient room at all three children's hospitals in South Carolina with brand new books and toys.
- Julie Valentine Center
Located in Greenville, this nonprofit organization provides free, confidential services to sexual assault and child abuse survivors and their families
- Let There Be Mom
Helping Upstate parents, with life-threatening illnesses, preserve their legacies for their children, 18 and under, with keepsakes.
- MB6 Foundation
The mission of this Mauldin-based organization is to help economically disadvantaged children in the Golden Strip area participate in community team sports by supplying equipment, funding for equipment, and registration.
- NAMI Greenville
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Greenville, South Carolina is a non-profit, grass-roots organization offering support, education and advocacy for families and friends of people with serious mental illness and for persons with serious mental illnesses.
- Outstanding Youth Awards
This nonprofit organization seeks to motivate and empower youth with an annual award ceremony, empowerment workshops, and volunteerism opportunities.
- Pendleton Place Children's Shelter
Pendleton Place, located in Greenville, offers a place of safety and comfort for children hurt by abuse and neglect. The group's mission is to keep children safe and support families in crisis through prevention, assessment, and intervention.
- Piedmont Women's Center
This Greenville medical clinic offers reproductive health care to the Upstate of South Carolina and surrounding areas.
- Reach GVL
Reach is mentorship program for incarcerated or formerly incarcerated youth to help them adjust to life after incarceration.
- Safe Harbor
Based in Grenville, this emergency domestic violence shelter provides counseling, legal advocacy, and transitional housing, as well as community outreach and teen dating violence education in Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, and Oconee counties.
- Walt's Waltz
This nonprofit organization strives to create stigma-free zones across the Upstate for mental health support, education, and change.
Health Organizations in Greenville
- Greenville SC clinics
Some Greenville medical clinics are nonprofit organizations that provide health care at no cost to those who cannot afford it.
- Greenville SC hospitals
Greenville is home to several hospitals which serve residents and visitors.
- SC hospice care
These South Carolina hospices were founded to provide high-quality, compassionate care for patients in their end stage of life. They also offer support for the patients' families.
- Advanced Institute for Development and Learning
This center in Greenville provides pediatric speech and feeding services for children with special needs as well as education and support programs for families.
- AID Upstate
AID Upstate is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides supportive services to people affected by HIV/AIDS in Anderson, Greenville, Oconee and Pickens Counties of South Carolina.
- All About Change
This Greenville organization offers a wide array of community based and in-home therapeutic and support services for children, adolescents, adults and families who are seeking help with issues related to developmental or complex trauma.
- American Red Cross, Upstate South Carolina
Provides services to the residents of South Carolina including disaster relief, health and safety classes, blood collection for hospitals, and services to the armed forces.
- The Blood Connection
Headquartered in Piedmont, The Blood Connection is the largest non-profit community blood collection and distribution center in the Greenville region. It operates blood collection centers in Greenville, Greenwood, Seneca, Easley, and Spartanburg.
- Cancer Crackdown
This group promotes natural therapies to defeat cancer and remain cancer free. It works to partner patients with survivor-mentors in order to provide support and planning.
- Cancer Survivors Park Alliance
The purpose of the Cancer Survivors Park is to provide a place of respite and rejuvenation, inspiration, education, hope, and celebration for anyone touched by cancer.
- Center for Developmental Services
The CCDS is a place where families can find multiple community services in one location for children and individuals with delays and disabilities.
- A Child's Haven
A Child's Haven is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Greenville that serves young children who have experienced developmental delays or behavioral challenges. Many are victims of poverty, child abuse, or domestic violence.
- David's Table
David's Table serves adults with disabilities and their families by connecting them to relationships, resources and purpose.
- 864Pride
Based in Greer, 864Pride is a clinical nonprofit focused on increasing access to mental health and medical services for the LGBTQ+ community in the Upstate.
- Happy Hooves Therapeutic Equestrian Center
Located in Marietta, Happy Hooves helps special needs children and adults, as well as at-risk children and teens, by providing horse-centered programs. Participants ride and care for horses, developing exceptionally rewarding relationships that benefit mind, body and spirit.
- Just Say Something
This Greenville group educates children about the effects of drugs and harmful substances. It seeks to provide them with choices that positively impact their health and well-being.
- Neighborhood Cancer Connection
Based in Greenville, this agency provides financial support to local cancer patients and their families; it also offers education and counseling services designed to increase hope and facilitate healing.
- Project HOPE Foundation
Project Hope serve individuals of all ages across the autism spectrum, from those most severely impacted to those with Asperger's Syndrome. The foundation provides a wide range of services – family support, ABA therapy, education, training, social groups, and adult programs.
- Ronald McDonald House of the Carolinas
The Ronald McDonald House in Greenville is a home away from home for critically ill or injured children while they are being treated at local hospitals and their families, providing hope, encouragement and comfort.
- Servants for Sight
The mission of this Greenville-based Christian non-profit is to help disadvantaged people, both in South Carolina and abroad, have access to eye care including exams, eyeglasses, and surgery.
- Touched By ALS
This Greenville organization works to fill the gap for those touched by ALS in the Upstate
by providing resources to assist with financial burdens, as well as physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Upstate-Carolina Adaptive Golf
UCAG provides means and opportunity for veterans, individuals recovering from physical or mental trauma, adults and children with developmental, cognitive, and physical disabilities enjoy the game of golf.
Organizations that Fight Poverty & Hunger
- Find help for the homeless in Greenville
Our directory of resources for homeless people in Greenville County includes soup kitchens, shelters, food banks, and affordable housing resources.
- AidJoy
This foundation uses media, finance, and technology to help other nonprofits build capacity in order to solve dire humanitarian problems.
- Christmas Shoes
Christmas Shoes's children are ages 6 months to 18 years and are selected by school counselors, social workers and the organization's team. The Greer based organization provides these needy children with a new pair of shoes, socks, toothbrush and toothpaste.
- Foothills Family Resources
This nonprofit, based in Slater, provides monetary help for families in crisis, teaches parenting skills, and operates a food shelter.
- Freedom Within Walls
This non-profit organization, established by diverse business professionals, is aimed at extinguishing hunger among children and providing enrichment programs for the impoverished.
- Greer Community Ministries
Operates the Meals on Wheels for Greater Greer area program plus provides congregate dining, food pantry, and clothing closet.
- Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County
Using volunteer labor this national organization builds affordable housing for qualifying individuals and families.
- Harvest Hope Food Bank
With a local branch in Greenville, this organization serves hungry people by gathering and sharing quality food with dignity, compassion, and education.
- Homes of Hope
Homes of Hope provides affordable housing for low-income families as well as job training for men overcoming drug and alcohol addictions.
- Loaves & Fishes
This Greenville organization provides free, regularly-scheduled deliveries of perishable food for distribution to individuals served at emergency food pantries and neighborhood distribution programs.
- Meals on Wheels of Greenville
This Christian nonprofit provides home-delivered meals and fellowship to the homebound, elderly, and frail of Greenville County.
- Miracle Hill Ministries
Always open. With locations in four Upstate counties – Greenville, Spartanburg, Pickens and Cherokee – Miracle Hill operates four adult homeless shelters, three children/youth homeless shelters, and eight thrift stores. It also offers residential addiction recovery programs and recruits foster care families in the Upstate.
- Project Host
This Greenville nonprofit uses food as a tool to nourish the hungry and train the unemployed with various programs including a daily soup kitchen, culinary school, garden, and children's programs.
- Rebuild Upstate
This Greenville-area group repairs and improves existing homes for elderly, disabled, and impoverished people, thus working to restore the safety and dignity of those in need.
- The Salvation Army Greenville
The mission of this international, evangelical movement is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.
- Sunbelt Human Advancement Resources
SHARE offers a wide variety of programs aimed at fighting poverty and educating low-income children, families, and individuals with the goal of enabling them towards independence.
- Sustaining Way
This interfaith non-profit purchases and upgrades underutilized Greenville-area properties to create environmentally-sustainable housing for low-income individuals.
- United Housing Connections
Formerly the Upstate Homeless Coalition of South Carolina, this 501(c)3 non-profit organization works with other agencies in Greenville and the Upstate to provide affordable housing. This organization is dedicated to ending homelessness through programming, advocacy, and building safe, decent, and affordable housing for homeless or at-risk families and individuals.
- United Ministries
This faith-based organization works to understand and address poverty issues in Greenville County.
- Zion World Wide Mission
This organization provides relief assistance to communities and countries in need in the areas of education, health, food, and other necessities for living a more effective life.
Recreation & Sports Teams in Greenville
- Recreation in Greenville
The majority of these organizations are nonprofits that offer social companionship and athletic training and education for their members.
Religious Organizations in Greenville
- Churches in Greenville
This helpful directory of churches, temples, and mosques in Greenville is sorted by denomination.
- Christian Learning Centers of Greenville County
CLC provides biblical instruction for school-aged children in Greenville County public schools as an opportunity to encourage them to embrace the Gospel of Jesus Christ. grow in the Christian faith. and apply biblical principles for living.
- The Crossover CUPS Mission
Based in Simpsonville, this faith-based organization serves in the Dominican Republic to help fight the cycle of poverty and exploitation.
- Good News Club
Based in Taylors, the Greenville branch of this national organization provides opportunities for children in public schools to be exposed to biblical teachings.
Senior Citizen Organizations in Greenville
Social, Fraternal & Professional Nonprofits
More Greenville SC Organizations
- Bike Walk Greenville
Bike Walk Greenville is a nonprofit organization advocating for safe biking and walking infrastructure in Greenville County.
- Compass of Carolina
Offers a diverse range of programs including a representative payee program, pre- and post-bankruptcy counseling, and violence prevention and intervention.
- Goodwill Industries of Upper South Carolina
Goodwill is a nationwide program that provides job training and employment opportunities for the disadvantaged.
- Off The Grid Greenville
This non-profit and media company's mission is to represent and empower the underrepresented small business owners of the Upstate.
- The Paid in Full Project
The Paid in Full Project aims to help and serve others through gifts and acts of financial kindness by finding those that are in short term financial need in the local community and then raise funds to meet this need.
- Piedmont Humanists
This Greenville organization was formed to give like minded humanists, free-thinkers, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and secular people a place to feel less isolated and build a community not based on theistic doctrine.
- Together Women Rise
Based in Greenville, this international organization is a community of women and allies dedicated to achieving global gender equality. With hundreds of local chapters across the US, members learn about and advocate for gender equality issues, give grants to organizations that empower women and girls in low-income countries, and build community to forge meaningful connections that increase our strength and collective impact.
- United States Jeep Association
The U.S.J.A. provides support to local veterans, active duty, first responders, public safety personnel, and their families.
- United Way of Greenville County
This wide-reaching organization works to improve the lives of individuals and communities within Greenville County and the world at large.
- Upstate Mediation Center
This community-based non-profit provides affordable third-party mediation services to individuals, families, and businesses in conflict in Greenville and the Upstate of South Carolina.
- Upstate International
This non-profit organization exists to empower people and businesses of all nations to thrive in the Upstate by connecting them through programs, events, and initiatives that foster the dynamic exchange of international cultures and ideas.
- Upstate Preservation Trust
Based in Greenville, the mission of the Upstate Preservation Trust is to preserve and protect the historic fabric of the Upstate of South Carolina.
- Upstate Splash
Upstate Splash partners with swim facilities and organizations to educate and raise awareness about water safety in order to help prevent childhood drowning; the group also raises funds to provide free swim lessons for at-risk and underprivileged youth.
- Upstate Warrior Solution
Upstate Warrior Solution provides veterans, first responders, and their family members who live in Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, and Oconee counties assistance with housing, employment, mental health, benefits, family support, basic needs, and more.
