Charleston County, South Carolina – Community Service Organizations

Charleston County Charities & Non-profit Organizations

• American Red Cross - Carolina Lowcountry Chapter
  

• Be a Mentor Initiative - connects kids with adult mentors
  
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Carolina Youth Development Center - serves Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester counties
  
• Bridge of Hope - offers afterschool programs for children, GED programs for adults
  

• Carolina Children's Charity - financial assistance for children with birth defects or diseases
  
• Carolina Empowerment Group - HIV and AIDS awareness
  
• Carolina Studios - after-school program where children learn to create and record music using digital media
  
• Carolina Youth Development Center - healing services for children who have experienced physical or sexual abuse, neglect, abandonment, or have severe emotional disorders
• Center for Women - seminars, support services, and professional development for women
  
• Charleston Area Children's Garden Project - community-based outdoor learning experience
  
• Charleston County Volunteer Fire & Rescue Squad
• Charleston Habitat for Humanity
• Charleston Jaycees - leadership development and community involvement opportunities for young professionals
• Charleston Junior Woman's Club
• Charleston Miracle League - baseball teams for children with physical and mental challenges
• Charleston Peace - social and environmental activism group
• Charleston Port and Seafarers' Society - assisting international crews while they are in port
  
• Coastal Community Foundation
• Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy - pastoral care, counseling for employees & families of law enforcement & emergency service agencies
  
• Communities In Schools of the Charleston Area
• Courageous Kidz - encouraging children that are battling cancer
  
• Crime Stoppers of the Lowcountry
• Crisis Ministries - homeless shelter

• Darkness to Light - fights child sexual abuse
  
• Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center - provides services for child abuse victims and their families
  

• East Cooper Community Outreach - Mount Pleasant
• East Cooper Habitat for Humanity - Mount Pleasant, Awendaw, McClellanville
  
• East Cooper Meals on Wheels - Mount Pleasant
• EMPOWERR Program - providing HIV/AIDS and substance abuse prevention programs for teens
  

• Family Services, Inc. - North Charleston - services include credit counseling, debt management, homebuyer education, family violence intervention, and bankruptcy counseling
  
• Fields to Families - Mount Pleasant - distributing fresh produce to area hunger prevention organizations
  
• Friends of MUSC Children's Hospital

• Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina
• Goodwill Industries of Lower South Carolina

• HALOS, Helping And Lending Outreach Support - helps abused and neglected victims served by the Charleston County Department of Social Services
  
• Healing Farm Ministries - helps families and individuals with developmental disabilities
  
• Helping the Underprivileged Grow - hosts fundraisers with proceeds going to local charities
  
• The Homeownership Resource Center - provides homeownership and financial literacy education
  
• Home Works of SC - Johns Island - home repairs for needy homeowners
• Humanities Foundation - provides affordable housing

• Increasing HOPE - North Charleston - financial education
• India Association of Greater Charleston
• ITNCharlestonTrident - North Charleston - provides transportation for seniors
  

• Junior Achievement of Coastal South Carolina - K12 economic success programs
  
• Junior League of Charleston - all female fundraising and volunteer organization
  
  
• LifeManagement Center - assists individuals and families with learning disabilities and ADHD
  
• Lincolnville Volunteer Rescue Squad
  
• Louie's Kids - fights childhood obesity
• Low Country Orphan Relief
• Lowcountry AIDS Services
• Lowcountry Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy - LEAP - works with at-risk children
  
• Lowcountry Food Bank
• Lowcountry Housing Trust - provides funding for affordable housing in the Tri-County area
  
  
• MUSC Children's Hospital
• My Sister's House - domestic violence shelter

• Operation Home - making critical home repairs for low-income residents
  
• Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services - Johns Island
  
  
• Palmetto Palace - helps with lodging, transportation and meals for those in need with a family member in a hospital
  
• Palmetto Technology Hub - providing technology support and resources to local not-for-profit organizations
  
• Parents Anonymous of South Carolina - works to prevent child abuse and neglect by strengthening families
  
• Pattison's Academy - serves children with severe or multiple handicaps

• Rein & Shine - Awendaw - uses horses to heal children and adults with physical, mental, and emotional limitations
  
• Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charleston
• Rotary Club of Charleston
• Rural Mission - Johns Island - assists sea-island families, including migrant workers, with health care, crisis intervention, and educational programs
  
  
• Safe Moves - family violence resource center
• The Salvation Army of Charleston - serving Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester counties
  
• Sertoma Club of Charleston - helping less fortunate individuals
• Simply Divine Garden - planting gardens at cancer patients' homes to foster well being
  
• South Carolina Blue Ribbon Council - raising awareness of child abuse and neglect in the Charleston area
  
• South Carolina Maritime Foundation
• South Carolina Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Program - Charleston County - voices for children in foster care
  

• Tricounty Family Ministries - North Charleston - providing vital services to the less fortunate in the Tricounty area
  
• Tricounty Project Care - affordable, preventative healthcare for employees of small businesses
  
• Trident Literacy Association
  
• Trident United Way
  
  
• United States Coast Guard Auxiliary - Charleston

• Veterans on Deck - aiding Veterans that struggle returning to a civilian society
  

• Water Missions International - working to bring water and sanitation to developing countries
  
• West Ashley Optimist Club
• Windwood Farm Home for Children - Awendaw - therapeutic intervention for abused and neglected boys
  
• WINGS for Kids - social and emotional learning after school
  
• Without Walls Ministry - alliance of local churches, organizations, businesses reaching out to people in need
  

• YMCA of Greater Charleston
• Yo Art Project - mentors teach inner-city youth computer and art skills

Related Charleston County SC Community Resources

• Lowcountry environmental organizations
• SC churches, temples, religious organizations
• SC family support organizations
• SC health organizations
• SC homeless shelters and food banks