SC – Statewide and Regional Community Organizations

• Adoption Coalition for Education and Support
• Affordable Housing Coalition of South Carolina
• Alcohol and drug abuse prevention organizations - by county
• Alliance for Full Acceptance - working for acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people
  
• American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina - ACLU - SC headquarters in Charleston
  
• American Council of the Blind of South Carolina
• American Red Cross - SC chapters
• Angelfood, SC - network of organizations around South Carolina that prepare food boxes for the needy
  
• Arc of South Carolina - works to improve lives of people with mental retardation and other developmental disorders
  
• ASCEND Foundation - Anne Scandalios Cancer Ends Now Directive Foundation
  

• The Blood Connection - upstate non-profit blood collection and distribution service
  
• Boy Scouts of America - Blue Ridge Council
• Boy Scouts of America - Coastal Carolina Council
• Boy Scouts of America - Indian Water Council 553
• Boy Scouts of America - Palmetto Council
• Boy Scouts of America - Pee Dee Area Council

• Carolinas District of Key Club and Circle K
• Carolinas District of Kiwanis
• Central Carolina Community Foundation - serving Calhoun, Clarendon, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda, and Sumter counties
  
• Children's Chance - supporting those affected by pediatric cancer
  
• Community Juvenile Arbitration
• Conservation Voters of South Carolina

• Disability Action Center - Midlands and Upstate - helping people with disabilities live independently
  
• Donate Life South Carolina - organ and tissue donation - formerly Gift of Life Trust Fund

• Easter Seals South Carolina - helps disabled people

• Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina - provides services for single parents and their children
  

• GLEAMNS Human Resources Commission - assisting low income households in Abbeville, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenwood, Laurens, Lexington, McCormick, Newberry, Richland, Saluda counties
  

• Habitat for Humanity - SC chapters
• Home Works of South Carolina - improves the homes of the elderly and needy in six SC and NC communities
  
• Homelessness resources - help for homeless people in SC
  

• Junior Achievement of Central South Carolina
• Junior Achievement of Coastal South Carolina

• Lions District 32-C - includes these counties - Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Marion, Marlboro, Sumter, and Williamsburg
  

• Midlands Area Consortium for the Homeless - collaborative effort of 60 agencies serving 14 counties
  
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving of South Carolina - MADD
• Multiple Sclerosis Society - MS - mid-atlantic chapter
  

• National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina
• National Kidney Foundation of South Carolina
• Newcomers Clubs in South Carolina
• New Morning Foundation

• One Laptop Per Child / South Carolina - pilot project with a long-term goal of providing all elementary school children in SC with low-cost, child-friendly laptops for educational purposes
  
• Orangeburg-Calhoun-Allendale-Bamberg Community Action Agency - Orangeburg - serving those in poverty
  

• Palmetto AIDS Life Support Services - PALSS
• Palmetto Animal Assisted Life Services - training service animals for physically disabled
  
• Palmetto Project - new ideas to build better SC communities
• Parents Reaching Out to Parents - supporting families of children with all types of disabilities
  
• Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina
• Project Unity USA - headquartered in Columbia - working to reduce crime
  

• Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic - South Carolina chapter - makes audio books
  
• Red Cross - SC chapters
• Rotary District 7770 - eastern SC

• Salvation Army - SC chapters
• Sharing Inc - help fund children's extra curricular activities in the upstate
  
• Sierra Club - SC chapter
• South Carolina 4-H Youth Development Program
• South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center - Columbia - advocacy for the state's low income people
  
• South Carolina Association for Volunteer Administration
• South Carolina Association of Children's Homes & Family Services
  
• South Carolina Association of Community Action Partnerships - administrating programs to improve the quality of life for the low-income population
  
• South Carolina Association of Councils on Aging Directors
• South Carolina Association of the Deaf
• South Carolina Centers For Equal Justice
• South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
• South Carolina Council for Conflict Resolution - mediation services
  
• South Carolina Crime Victims' Council
  
• South Carolina Equality Coalition - gay rights
• South Carolina Gay and Lesbian Pride Movement
• South Carolina Hispanic Outreach
• South Carolina Jaycees - Junior Chambers of Commerce
• South Carolina Lions Multiple District 32
• South Carolina Native Plant Society
• South Carolina Office of Rural Health
• South Carolina Search and Rescue Dog Association
• South Carolina Victim Assistance Network
• Southern Institute on Children and Families
• Special Olympics South Carolina
• Sunbelt Human Advancement Resources - SHARE - helps low-income families and neighborhoods in Greenville, Anderson, Pickens, and Oconee counties
  

• United Way - SC chapters
• Upstate Homeless Coalition of South Carolina - works with providers in 13 upstate counties
  

• Voices for South Carolina's Children

Related Nonprofit Resources

• National Development Institute - Columbia
  
• South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations - SCANPO
  
• South Carolina Center for Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership - Clemson University