South Carolina has been awarded $3.5 million by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency to help serve the state’s homeless and hungry.
The funds, awarded through FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program, more than double what we received last year, which is needed now more than ever with many students going homeless here amid the recession.
The number of children in SC without a regular home has risen more than 45% since 2007.
FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program Allocation to Greenville County, SC for 2010
| County | Funding FY 2010 | Funding FY 2009 |
|---|---|---|
| Greenville County | $319,739 | $139,889 |
For more information on the EFSP grants for 2010, visit the United Way’s EFSB Current Award website.
Sticking to his conservative values of keeping the SC budget down to a bare minimum, Sanford lost the battle over Mother Nature’s power of the wind.
With a G.E. plant here in the Upstate going full-throttle manufacturing wind turbines and now a wind research site at the Clemson Restoration Institute in North Charleston, we may see wind-powered turbines off SC sooner than you think.
Clemson landed a $45 million grant back in November from the DOE to test wind turbines, and this Wednesday’s 4-1 vote from our Budget and Control Board sets the state’s portion of that money into motion.
The BMW Charity Pro-Am has been named the 2009 Nationwide Tour Charity of the Year for its far-reaching impact on charities in the Upstate region of South Carolina and Western North Carolina.
Tournament organizers will receive a check for $30,000 from the PGA TOUR to enhance the tournament’s charitable endeavors.
Earlier, the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation announced it had raised $651,829 for 78 organizations as a result of last year’s tournament.
The next BMW Charity Pro-Am in Greer, S.C. is May 10-16 for a purse of $600,000.
The Golden Strip’s Center for Community Service has been chosen to be SC’s host site for The Civic Projects: Serving 50 States in 50 Days.
The founders, Tim Malcolm and Kristen L’Orange, will spend today volunteering at the center, located at 1102 Howard Drive in Simpsonville – one stop of many across every state until the end of February.
According to their Mission Statement, the Center for Community Services makes multiple non-profit agency services accessible to individuals and families in need.
We are honored to add The Center for Community Services to our growing Greenville County charities page – a quick-stop location for multiple charities, non-profits, and volunteer & community-oriented organizations throughout Greenville County.
Unfortunately, it’s pretty common knowledge that the U.S. spends more on medical care per person than any other country, but did you know that our life expectancy is shorter than that of most other developed nations – and many developing ones?
“More care does not necessarily mean better care.”
– Gerard Anderson, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
To make matters worse here in South Carolina, we ranked among the worst states in the nation this week for smoking prevention efforts, according to a new report by the American Lung Association, just as our State lawmakers are back in session talking about our lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax issue.
Here are some of the A.L.A. findings:
