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Community Impact Partners

United Way of the Midlands fosters partnerships with health and human service agencies that address human needs in the community and meet certain organizational standards.

  • Able South Carolina

    Assists citizens with disabilities in a community-based model of education and support in an effort to help them recognize existing community resources, elevate personal opportunities and determine the direction of their lives.

    Agency number: 10144
    Phone: (803) 779-5121

  • Acercamiento Hispano/SC Hispanic Outreach

    Works to preserve the dignity, promote the well-being, and improve the quality of life of the Hispanic/Latino community in SC.

    Agency number: 9131
    Phone: (803) 419-5192

  • Alston Wilkes Society

    Provides offenders, former offenders, the homeless, troubled youth, veterans and their families the tools they need to become productive citizens.

    Agency number: 9204
    Phone: (803) 799-2490

  • American Cancer Society Inc.

    Advocate and leader in cancer treatment and research. Provides services including legal advocacy and referrals for cancer patients. Delivers early detection and prevention programs to individuals and families.

    Agency number: 9227
    Phone: (803) 750-1963

  • American Heart Association, Inc. - Mid-Atlantic Affiliate

    Fighting to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by supporting research, education and community services.

    Agency number: 9309
    Phone: (803) 738-9540

  • Autism Society South Carolina

    Provides information, education and support to individuals with autism, their families and professional caregivers. Works to increase the public’s awareness about autism.

    Agency number: 9276
    Phone: (803) 750-6988

  • Babcock Center, Inc.

    Provides vocational training, residential care and transportation to people with lifelong disabilities such as autism, mental retardation, and brain or spinal cord injuries.

    Agency number: 9288
    Phone: (803) 799-1970

  • Boy Scouts of America, Indian Waters Council

    Provides quality and effective programming to youth and families that teaches living skills, family responsibility, outdoor education, jobs skills, avocations, personal fitness, service, citizenship and healthy lifestyles.

    Agency number: 9216
    Phone: (803) 750-9868

  • Boys and Girls Clubs of the Midlands

    Provides daily access to a safe environment where children are offered quality programming in five core areas: education and career development; character and leadership development; cultural enrichment; health and life skills; and sport, fitness and recreation.

    Agency number: 9218
    Phone: (803) 231-3300

  • Boys Farm

    Serves as a haven for boys experiencing difficult family situations, making a difference in the lives of boys in need by providing a healthy, stable environment which helps them grow into productive young men with a positive outlook of the future.

    Agency number: 9636
    Phone: (803) 276-5910

  • Brookland Center for Community Economic Change

    Brookland Center for Community Economic Change
    Provides multi-generational programming and services aimed to advance community education, health, and financial stability via Brookland-Lakeview Empowerment Center.

    Agency number: 654696
    Phone: (803) 747-3519

  • Brookland Foundation

    Improve the lives of people by developing and promoting efforts to enhance their spiritual, emotional, physical, social, and economic well-being.

    Agency number: 9923
    Phone: (803) 744-7914

  • Calhoun County First Steps

    First Steps South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness (First Steps) is an initiative to help Calhoun County children to reach first grade healthy and ready to succeed.

    Agency number: 9065
    Phone: (803) 655-5126

  • Central South Carolina Habitat for Humanity

    Partners with low-income families to build houses for their ownership. Volunteers build the house and the homeowner assumes an interest-free mortgage.

    Agency number: 9633
    Phone: (803) 252-3570

  • Chapin We Care Center

    Works with community families and individuals facing emergencies related to their basic living needs.

    Agency number: 9336
    Phone: (803) 345-3244

  • City Year Columbia

    Unites a diverse group of young people, ages 17-24, for a demanding year of full-time community service, leadership development, and civic engagement.

    Agency number: 9758
    Phone: (803) 254-3349

  • Columbia Urban League, Inc.

    A nonprofit, nonpartisan, interracial organization serving economically disadvantaged individuals and families in the Midlands through employment, education, welfare and legal services to the elderly.

    Agency number: 9224
    Phone: (803) 799-8150

  • Communities In Schools of the Midlands, Inc.

    Mobilizes the community and partners with schools to prevent children from dropping out by brokering volunteer, in-kind and agency resources.

    Agency number: 9647
    Phone: (803) 254-9727

  • Dickerson Children's Advocacy Center

    Provides comprehensive assessment and treatment services to physically/sexually abused children up to 18 years of age living in the Midlands of South Carolina.

    Agency number: 9856
    Phone: (803) 358-7200

  • Dyslexia Resource Center

    The Dyslexia Resource Center (DRC) seeks to help beginning and struggling readers by: 1) Raising awareness of dyslexia; 2) Offering affordable and accessible direct tutoring services; and 3) training educators in evidenced-based reading instruction. The DRC has scholarships for individuals who can not afford the tuition based on a sliding scale of income. DRC provides a free 1:1 tutoring program for struggling Kindergartens called R.I.S.E. (Reading Intervention Starts Early). The DRC is headquartered in Columbia was founded in 1995 by U.S.C. Biology Professor and has served children from Richland, Lexington, Orangeburg, and Fairfield.

    Agency number: 654731
    Phone: 803.250.6614

  • Edisto Habitat for Humanity, Inc.

    Partners with low-income families to build houses for their ownership. Volunteers build the house and the homeowner assumes an interest-free mortgage.

    Agency number: 9015
    Phone: (803) 539-2242

  • EdVenture, Inc.

    EdVenture's mission is to inspire children to experience the joy of learning.

    Agency number: 9962
    Phone: (803) 779-3100

  • Fact Forward

    Statewide educational organization, that provides training, education, public awareness, and advocacy for the reduction of teen pregnancy.

    Agency number: 9544
    Phone: (803) 771-7700

  • Fairfield Behavioral Health Services

    Provides comprehensive substance abuse intervention, prevention and referral services.

    Agency number: 9703
    Phone: (803) 635-2335

  • Fairfield County First Steps

    Provides affordable, quality childcare. Approaches children’s school readiness needs in five ways: Family Strengthening, Healthy Start, Quality Child Care, Early Education, and School Transition.

    Agency number: 9566
    Phone: 803-635-1590

  • Family Connection of South Carolina, Inc.

    Parent-to-parent network of family-focused support to strengthen families who have children with developmental delays, disabilities or chronic illnesses.

    Agency number: 9623
    Phone: (803) 252-0914

  • Free Medical Clinic of Newberry County

    Understands and serves the health and wellness needs of the medically underserved, and their households, who live and work in Newberry County.

    Agency number: 10178
    Phone: (803) 276-6665

  • Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina

    Provides informal educational programs to girls ages 5-17 to help girls achieve full potential, relate better to others, develop values and contribute to the community.

    Agency number: 9770
    Phone: (843) 669-5174

  • Girl Scouts of South Carolina - Mountains to Midlands, Inc.

    Provides informal educational programs to girls ages 5-17 to help girls achieve full potential, relate better to others, develop values and contribute to the community.

    Agency number: 9246
    Phone: (864) 770-1400

  • Good Samaritan Clinic

    Serves as a liaison between Hispanics and the different services, programs and resources available in the community. Offers a free medical clinic that has been serving the community since 2001.

    Agency number: 10176
    Phone: (803) 790-0239

  • Goodwill Industries of Upstate/Midlands South Carolina, Inc.

    Helps people with disabilities and other special needs become fully independent citizens through education, employment, and training leading to job placement.

    Agency number: 9483
    Phone: (864) 351-0158

  • Growing Home Southeast, Inc.

    Enable at-risk children, youth, and families to realize their potential and contribute to their community.

    Agency number: 9047
    Phone: (803) 791-5513

  • Harvest Hope Food Bank, Inc.

    Since 1981, sharing and gathering quality food with dignity, compassion and education in 18 South Carolina counties, to over 370 nonprofit agencies serving hungry people.

    Agency number: 9249
    Phone: (803) 254-4432

  • Healthy Learners

    Healthy Learners is a faith-based non-profit that connects children to care so that poor health is not an obstacle to doing well in school. We address poverty as its root, so that future generations can lift themselves, and their communities, to a better life.

    Agency number: 9295
    Phone: (803) 454-0350

  • Home Works of America, Inc.

    A volunteer ecumenical effort, enabling teens make repairs and improvements to homes for the elderly and disadvantaged.

    Agency number: 9494
    Phone: (803) 781-4536

  • Homeless No More

    Addresses the root causes of homelessness by providing safe, affordable housing and offering a structured support program to homeless families.

    Agency number: 9903
    Phone: (803) 256-3999

  • IT-ology

    IT-oLogy is a nonprofit working to grow the number of IT professionals in South Carolina.

    Agency number: 654443
    Phone: (844) 486-5649

  • James R. Clark Memorial Sickle Cell Foundation

    Provides testing for and access to information on sickle cell anemia, sickle cell trait and other blood abnormalities.

    Agency number: 9505
    Phone: (803) 765-9916

  • Latino Communications

    In 2010, Tanya Rodriguez-Hodges founded Latino Communications Community Development Corporation — a nonprofit 501c3 strategic communications firm that helps organizations serve the Spanish-speaking community in Central Midlands and across our state. The company possesses a dual mission: to effectively connect clients with their Afro-Latino stakeholders and to deliver high quality translation and interpretation services. LCCDC supports the Afro-Latino population through community engagement, outreach, and education. Latino Communications in addition to translation and interpretation services, it also has a financial education, health/wellness program, and food scarcity program. Latino Communications currently serves 7 counties with their programs including three (Richland, Lexington, and Newberry) with the United Way of the Midlands service territory.

    Agency number: 654730
    Phone: 803.227.8984

  • Lexington County First Steps

    Supports families in Lexington County so that all children enter school ready to learn.

    Agency number: 10351
    Phone: (803) 532-6861

  • Lexington/Richland Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council, Inc.

    Provides intervention, prevention and treatment services for alcohol and other drug abuse. Offers inpatient, outpatient and community awareness programs throughout Richland and Lexington counties.

    Agency number: 9270
    Phone: (803) 726-9301

  • Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas

    Quality programs for individual and families including adoption, residential child care/treatment, family counseling and education, refugee services, prison ministry and developmental disability services.

    Agency number: 9673
    Phone: (803) 750-9917

  • Mental Illness Recovery Center, Inc.

    Mirci provides behavioral healthcare, outreach services and affordable housing for people who are vulnerable to the adverse consequences of mental illness including homelessness.

    Agency number: 9242
    Phone: (803) 786-1844

  • Midlands Fatherhood Coalition

    The Midlands Fatherhood Coalition engages fathers in the positive support of their children and enhances community support for fatherhood throughout the Midlands.

    Agency number: 10181
    Phone: (803) 933-0052

  • Midlands Housing Trust Fund

    The Midlands Housing Trust Fund provides financing, technical assistance, and advocacy for the construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable housing in the Midlands.

    Agency number: 1334
    Phone: (803) 764-3976

  • Mission Lexington (LICS)

    Mission Lexington is a local interfaith social services ministry serving families and individuals struggling to meet their basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter.

    Agency number: 9670
    Phone: (803) 568-3112

  • Newberry County Council on Aging

    Home delivered and senior center meals, homecare, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, Health and Wellness programs, insurance counseling, legal services, Alzheimer’s Disease support, Adult Day Care.

    Agency number: 9228
    Phone: (803) 276-8266

  • Newberry County First Steps

    Working in partnership with parents, families, caregivers, educators, and our community, Newberry County First Steps fosters nurturing experiences so that children will reach their highest potential.

    Agency number: 654689
    Phone: 803.321.1073

  • One80 Place

    One80 Place provides food, shelter and hope to end homelessness and hunger one person at a time, one family at a time.

    Agency number: 9865
    Phone: (843) 723-9477

  • Orangeburg Area Boys and Girls Club

    Promotes positive youth development and strengthens family support systems through one-to-one caring relationships with committed volunteers.

    Agency number: 9104
    Phone: (803) 747-4130

  • Orangeburg County Council on Aging

    Promoting physical and mental well-being of persons in Orangeburg County over 60 years of age.

    Agency number: (803) 531-4663
    Phone: 9609

  • Orangeburg County First Steps

    Provides access and awareness of early childhood development to the families of all children through community partnerships, program funding and fostering parental involvement.

    Agency number: 10145
    Phone: (803) 987-4164

  • Orangeburg-Calhoun Free Medical Clinic

    Understands and serves the health and wellness needs of the medically uninsured that live in Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties to empower the individual and family to reach optimal health and be productive citizens.

    Agency number: 10182
    Phone: (803) 534-7200

  • Palmetto AIDS Life Support Services

    PALSS provides emotional and practical support to individuals, their families or loved ones affected by the HIV disease.

    Agency number: 9594
    Phone: (803) 779-7257

  • Palmetto Place Children and Youth Services

    During temporary residence, comprehensive physical and emotional care-giving for child maltreatment victims ranging in age from birth to 17 years is provided.

    Agency number: 9263
    Phone: (803) 786-6819

  • Pathways to Healing

    Provides 24-hour crisis intervention, hospital accompaniment, individual and group counseling and legal advocacy to survivors of sexual assault and their families.

    Agency number: 9371
    Phone: (803) 790-8208

  • Project Life: Positeen

    Developing successful learners by providing a challenging academic and cultural foundation in which students become problem solvers.

    Agency number: 9109
    Phone: (803) 534-4263

  • Reach Out and Read - Carolinas

    Promotes early literacy and school readiness in pediatric exam rooms nationwide by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud.

    Agency number: 10349
    Phone: (803) 434-2523

  • Richland County First Steps

    Through family and community involvement, Richland County First Steps will assist children to reach school healthy and ready to learn.

    Agency number: 9575
    Phone: (803) 212-4200

  • Richland County Public Education Partners

    Supports the public education system through community engagement, advocacy, and programming, such as the Resiliency Team model at Jackson Creek Elementary.

    Agency number: 654695
    Phone: (803) 351-0436
    Website: www.rcpep.org

  • Richland Library

    Provides and promotes unrestricted access to facilities, information, services, materials and technologies for all. Encourages and supports the development of literacy at every age level and supports reading for information and enjoyment.

    Agency number: 9297
    Phone: (803) 799-9084

  • Salvation Army - Columbia Corps

    Feeds the hungry, shelters the homeless, provides crisis assistance to meet basic human needs, Christmas distribution, youth programs, substance abuse rehabilitation and disaster relief services.

    Agency number: 9272
    Phone: (803) 765-0260

  • Senior Resources, Inc.

    Provides services, such as congregate and home-based meals, home care, transportation and respite to promote healthy independent living to seniors and others.

    Agency number: 9292
    Phone: (803) 252-7734

  • Serve & Connect

    At Serve & Connect, we believe police and citizens are capable of accomplishing great things when they work together as one community. We believe we can make a difference and tackle some of our greatest challenges through collaboration. Because we believe in these principles, we are committed to working with police and the community, helping to identify where there are the greatest opportunities for making lasting change and building the pathway to make those dreams a reality.

    Agency number: 654603
    Phone:

  • Sistercare, Inc.

    Provides services to and advocacy for abused women and their families in Columbia. Promotes the prevention of domestic violence through community education.

    Agency number: 9274
    Phone: (803) 926-0505

  • The Cooperative Ministry, Inc.

    Offers direct financial assistance, counseling, information, referrals, clothing and furniture, and long-term programs to address the root causes of poverty.

    Agency number: 9687
    Phone: (803) 799-3853

  • The Free Medical Clinic, Inc.

    The Free Medical Clinic provides quality health care and medications, at no cost, to the most vulnerable in our community who cannot afford such services.

    Agency number: 9221
    Phone: (803)765-1503

  • The Hive Community Circle

    The Hive Community Circle is a survivor-driven, culturally specific peer advocacy organization helping women and girls in South Carolina overcome the trauma of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and stalking. We were founded in 2015 with a visionary spirit and urgent objective: to help prevent violence against some of our nation’s most vulnerable populations of women and girls. As a survivor-led, survivor-driven peer advocacy organization, we bring a culturally-competent approach to preventing and educating survivors and their surrounding communities about sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and stalking. We exist to enhance support services and prevention for women and girls of color and those experiencing economic instability.

    Agency number: 746025015
    Phone: 803) 888-7725

  • The Samaritan House of Orangeburg

    The Samaritan House provides temporary housing, outreach programs and transitional services to the homeless in Orangeburg, SC

    Agency number: 9016
    Phone: (803) 809-1090

  • Transitions

    Moves people from homelessness to permanent housing via Transitions Center. Various strategies and types of housing are used to help stabilize individuals living on the street and enroll them in services designed to stabilize their lives, increase their income, and help them secure permanent housing.

    Agency number: 10180
    Phone: (803) 708-4861

  • Vital Connections of the Midlands, Inc.

    To make a positive difference in the lives of young children, especially those in need by providing high quality early education and parent education services that help support families and children.

    Agency number: 9862
    Phone: (803) 661-8685

  • Wings for Kids

    Equips at-risk children with the skills they need to succeed in school, stay in school and thrive in life.

    Agency number: 654468
    Phone: (843) 352-3361

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1818 Blanding Street
Columbia, SC 29201

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