AIDS Hotline -  800-342-AIDS

Alston Wilkes Society provides support services to adult and juvenile offenders, former offenders and the homeless. Services include case management, employment assistance and referrals to other resources as needed. For more information, or the office closest to you, call our main office at (803) 799-2490.

Affirm is located in Greenville, SC, and serves the entire nine-county area known as the Upstate and provides a safe place where GLBTQ youth meet and form friendships, build positive self esteem, and develop skills necessary for dealing with a negative environment.

Alzheimer's Association - Upstate SC Chapter
The Alzheimer's Association--Upstate South Carolina Chapter-- is a non-profit charitable tax-exempt, voluntary health organization dedicated to family support, education, research, and advocacy. The National headquarter is located in Chicago. There are approximately 4.5 million persons affected by Alzheimer's Disease or related dementia in the United States. It is estimated that 50,000 of those are in SC.

American Cancer Society 864-591-0004

American Lung Association - 800-LUNG-USA

Animal Allies facilitates a low-cost spay/neuter program for cats and dogs. Our services are available to anyone who wants to spay/neuter their pet; however, our focus is on targeted surgeries for low-income families. Prices range from $30 to $60 at our clinic, located at 1097 Asheville Highway. Call 864.576.6971 for an appointment.

Arts With Heart
Local artists helping local charities.

Battered Woman/Domestic Violence Hotline
Help is only a phone call away....1-800-334-2836.

Bethlehem Center
The Bethlehem Center, established in 1930, is currently a multi-service Agency providing an array of programs to residents in Spartanburg County. The Center's day care facility has the capacity to serve 48 children between the ages of two and five. After school tutorial services, fine arts, sports and recreational activities, scouting, seasonal camping, primary prevention, and leadership programs for community youth are also available. Programming for adults includes Bible studies and fellowship, nutrition programs, life skills sessions, as well as sewing and craft classes.

A computer lab is maintained for all program participants and community residents.

Cancer Association of Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties
The website is under construction. Please call 864-582-0771 for more information.

Carolina Counseling provides mental health and crisis intervention services. Call 864-583-5802 for more information.

CASA Guardian Ad Litem of Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties
The mission of CASA is to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courts. We promote and support quality volunteer representation for children to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home. Call 864-573-5175 in Spartanburg co. and 864-487-0165 in Cherokee Co. for more information.

Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg works to facilitate a collaborative, child-focused approach for the effective prevention, detection, investigation, treatment and prosecution of child abuse.

Children's Shelter is a temporary shelter where placement cannot exceed 30 days. For more information, call 864-585-1445.

Christmas in Action is a one-day home improvement project in which volunteer teams repair the homes of residents who are unable to do the needed repairs. Call 864-585-7555 for more information.

COLORS is a program which addresses the need for positive creative outlets for inner-city youth. COLORS' mission is to develop young talent by providing the opportunity for them to experience the power of their own creativity. These students are able to come to an after school environment where paper, paint, pastels, charcoal and clay are provided for their creative development. Participants are supervised and encouraged by professional art instructors.

Community Food Bank of the Piedmont is an umbrella organization serving as a central distribution warehouse for hundreds of food pantries, emergency shelters, churches, food kitchens and other ministries across the Upstate. Through our network agencies, The Community Food Bank of the Piedmont is able to reach the nearly 175,000 hungry individuals living in the ten (10) counties we serve. Among this harsh figure, nearly 60,000 are children.

Endometriosis Association -  800-992-ENDO

Endometriosis Association Support Group for the Upstate is for women who have endometriosis and would like to come together to discuss tips on how to deal with endo.  Please email UpstateSCEndoAssn@hotmail.com for more information.

First Steps
South Carolina First Steps to school Readiness ('First Steps') is a comprehensive, results-oriented statewide education initiative to help prepare our children to reach first grade healthy and ready to succeed.

• Cherokee Count First Steps, call 864-487-9466.
• Laurens County First Steps, call 864-984-3568.
• Spartanburg County First Steps, call 864-327-4900.
• Union County First Steps, call 864-429-1730, ext 32.

Goodwill Industries of Upper SC, Inc. helps people with disabilities and special needs become fully independent citizens through training and employment leading to job placement. It provides rehabilitation service, training, work adjustment, employment opportunity, and placement in competitive industry for people with disabilities and special needs. Call 864-467-3200 for more information.

Habitat for Humanity of Spartanburg, Inc. is a Christian housing ministry building simple, affordable homes for deserving, needy families. Habitat homeowners buy their homes at cost with a 20 year, interest free loan - and must perform 400 hours of "sweat equity" building their own home or other Habitat homes. We provide a "hand up" instead of a "hand out".

Hope and Light Foundation is dedicated to funding research to eliminate SMA, a deadly genetic disease and the leading genetic killer of babies and toddlers under the age of two. Hope and Light hopes educate families and communities about the existence of this disease.

Iron City Ministries is located at 109 W Cherokee St. in Blacksburg, SC. Call 864-839-9783 for more information.

Junior Achievement of Spartanburg, Inc. has taught over 45,000 area students about business and the world of work. Last year alone, the organization helped instill an entrepreneurial spirit and an appreciation of the American free enterprise system in 4,000 young people in 214 JA classes. Call 864-585-9381 for more information.

Mary Black Foundation
Our mission is to improve the health and wellness of the people and communities of Spartanburg County. We define “health and wellness” broadly — as complete physical, mental, and social well-being — and devote the majority of our resources to efforts that address the underlying causes of poor health outcomes in Spartanburg County.

Mental Health Association of the Piedmont, Inc.
This organization works to promote mental health and prevent mental illnesses through advocacy, education, research and service.

Miracle Hill Ministries
Miracle Hill Rescue Mission - Spartanburg, formerly Downtown Rescue Mission, came under the Miracle Hill Ministries umbrella in July 2002. The shelter houses men, women, and families all in seperate quarters.

Mobile Meals Service of Spartanburg
Mobile Meals is a home-delivered hot meal service for the homebound of Spartanburg County who are unable to prepare their own food. No charge is made for the meals, delivered Monday through Friday, and there are no income or age restrictions for potential recipients. Volunteers are the “life line” of Mobile Meals; it takes at least 150 volunteers per day to see that meals are delivered to the 2,000 recipients served each weekday.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society 1-800-FIGHTMS
The mission of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is to end the devastating effects of MS.

New Day, Inc. of Spartanburg
Also known as New Day Clubhouse, New Day was founded in 1987 as a private, nonprofit organization through the efforts of the Mental Health Association of the Piedmont. New Day was established to fill the community's need for a psychiatric rehabilitation center serving adults, 18 years and older, with diagnoses of serious and persistent mental illness.

Piedmont Blood Center
Every day blood is needed in hospitals and emergency treatment facilities for patients with cancer and other diseases, for organ transplant recipients, and to save the lives of accident victims. Giving blood is easy, safe and takes less than one hour, but only about five percent of eligible Americans donate blood. Donations are critically needed, please act now.

Piedmont Care is a nonprofit organization serving the Spartanburg, Cherokee, and Union communities by providing HIV/AIDS care, prevention, and advocacy.

Piedmont Community Actions, Inc.
Piedmont Community Actions (PCA) is a private non-profit agency which serves Spartanburg and Cherokee counties in the upstate of South Carolina. Our mission is to provide a nurturing environment in which low-income families can seek assistance that helps them to become less dependent upon government assistance. PCA strives to give low-income families a "hand up" in the direction of self-sufficiency, not a "handout".

Piedmont Care Consortium
Call 864-582-7773 for more information.

Safe Homes - Rape Crisis Coalition
Safe Home - Rape Crisis serves Spartanburg, Cherokee, and Union Counties, giving help, support, and emergency shelter to victims of rape and domestic violence and their children.

Salvation Army Spartanburg
The Salvation Army has been serving Spartanburg, SC since 1904 providing spiritual, emotional, physical and intellectual help and hope to people of all ages, races and cultural backgrounds.

The South Carolina Centers for Equal Justice, and its predecessors, through its offices in Anderson, Greenville and Spartanburg have been providing free civil legal assistance to the low income community in the Upstate for nearly 40 years. Call toll-free, 1-888-346-5592.
303 East River Street, Anderson
701 South Main Street, Greenville
148 East Main Street, Spartanburg

Southside Unity in the Community
Southside Unity in the Community is dedicated to promoting volunteerism within the Southside community. The program intends to make available in one central location resources, training, and opportunities that will encourage volunteerism.
Southside Unity in the Community strives to lead by example. Volunteerism is rarely taught in the Southside Community; it is our hope that this program managed entirely by volunteers will inspire volunteerism in present and future generations. Call 864-621-7209 for more information.

Spartanburg Boys Home
The Spartanburg Boys' Home is a private, non-profit, DSS licensed, Moderate Management, Medicaid approved, residential treatment facility located on 49 acres in Spartanburg County. The vision of the Home is to create an appropriate alternative placement and avoid having to place boys in jail that could be better served in the community.

Spartanburg Humane Society
The Humane Society is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the promotion of animal welfare throughout Spartanburg and surrounding areas. The Societyworks to make our community a safer place for people to live, to prevent cruelty to animals, and to educate the public in proper animal care, especially the neutering of pets.

Spartanburg Teen Pregnancy Prevention Council
...Because kids should have a life before giving someone else one.

Stop the Violence Collaboration
The mission of Stop The Violence Collaboration is to prevent violence by strengthening and empowering families, communities, and neighborhoods and encouraging community pride and involvement through education, community organizing, development, and revitalization.

TOTAL Ministries focuses on emergency financial assistance. TOTAL provides rental assistance, mortgage assistance, heating assistance, prescription payments, clothing, food, and, on limited occasions, transportation assistance. All services are free to requestors. Call 864-585-9167 for more informaiton.

United Way of the Piedmont
Since 1936, United Way of the Piedmont has been serving the people of the Upstate. We are a private, not-for-profit organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Urban League of the Upstate
The Urban League of the Upstate is a non-profit organization committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all citizens in housing, education, employment, and economic development, without regard to race or socioeconomic status.

CARY Center
Greenville, SC
Our mission is to assist families in the Upstate of South Carolina that are experiencing difficulty as a result of the behavior of an adolescent member through excellence in therapeutic modalities and psychoeducation.

Killingsworth, Inc.
Columbia, SC
Killingsworth is a transitional home for women emerging from crisis situations. The home serves women from across the southeast, including residents of Spartanburg, Cherokee, Union, Laurens, and surrounding counties.

Operation Comfort
Fort Gordon, Augusta, GA
Operation Comfort is a special program in Army Community Service (ACS) that was established to support deployed service members and their families. Support through Operation Comfort may come in the form of respite childcare, outings or other events that boost morale, family members directly purchasing goods for service members and their families. Call 877-310-5741 for more information.

SC Association of Nonprofit Organizations
Columbia, SC
The mission of the S.C. Association of Nonprofit Organizations (SCANPO) is to serve, support and strengthen nonprofit organizations for a better South Carolina. SCANPO's website features a search of all member nonprofit agencies, including social service organizations.

SC Center for Grassroots & Nonprofit Leadership
Clemson, SC
The Center seeks to actively build capacity and enhance resources of community and faith-based grassroots groups, nonprofit organizations, and individuals that are challenged to provide leadership and improve community life.

SC Department of Social Services
Columbia, SC
This state agency offers servies and support for families and children.

SC Ovarian Cancer Foundation
Greenville, SC
This is an organization brought together by ovarian cancer patients, healthcare providers, and other concerned individuals for the dissemination of information about ovarian cancer. It has been designed for the patients, for support, for education of the public and healthcare providers, and for the furthering of research in ovarian cancer in the state of South Carolina. The Foundation has affiliations with major gynecologic oncology centers in this state.

Youth Alliances of America
Greenville, SC
Youth Alliances of America is a non-profit organization that provides therapeutic counseling, vocational assistance, and hands-on work experience to at-risk and multi-handicapped young men and women ages 14 to 21. Call 864-269-8342 for more information.

For information about additional service organizations in the Upstate, visit Greenville.com .