Immediate Needs Grants support organizations that meet the fundamental needs of people experiencing poverty in South Carolina.
Donor Name: Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
State: South Carolina
County: All Counties
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy)
Details:
Organizations that receive funding in this category are delivering programs providing resources associated with life and health, education and skills, or access and participation.
Cycle II Immediate Needs grants are for organizations with annual operating budgets greater than or equal to $500,000. All Immediate Needs grants are $5,000.
Focus Areas 

Access and Participation: Examples include programs that provide access to reliable transportation, access to information, legal services, assistance obtaining identifying documents, free or affordable child care, and assistance navigating systems essential to participating in daily life
Education and Skills: Examples include organizations that provide quality basic childhood education, promote literacy, offer technical training, executive functioning support and acquisition of life skills/essential skills
Life and Health: Examples include programs providing health care, end of life care, safe and sanitary housing, quality mental health support or treatment, food/ access to quality nutrition, safety and security, and crisis assistance.

Eligibility Criteria 

Has identified and is filling a gap in resources within a community.
Regularly solicits feedback from participants and uses feedback for improvement.
Programs have clear measure of success.
Has a clear focus area: programming addresses immediate needs associated with life and health, education and skills, or access and participation.

The Foundation does not fund

Organizations that do not address poverty
Programs outside of South Carolina
Organizations that have been operating for less than one year
Capital campaigns
Individuals
Scholarships

For more information, visit SCFSC.