GWC Announces our 2025 Grant Awards!, November 2025
Greenwood Women Care is pleased to announce our 2025 GWC Grant Awards! Our collective funds received through annual membership and other designated contributions enabled GWC to disburse $79,825 in total in grant funding for eleven nonprofits serving residents of Greenwood County. In our seven years of offering GWC Grants, we have made 73 grants totaling $483,799!
GWC 2025 Grants were awarded to:
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lakelands $10,000
Rising STARZ program for at-risk middle school students
Connie Maxwell Children’s Ministries $8,000
Advanced trauma therapy for children and families
Greenwood Community Theatre $10,000
The Penguin Project musical performance opportunity for children and youth with disabilities
Girls on the Run – Upstate SC $10,000
Program integrating running with life skills for underserved girls ages 6-14
Lions Vision Services $7,500
Eye health services for uninsured or under-insured Greenwood residents
Community Initiatives $7,500
La Clinica Gratis maternal-health program
Blue Ridge Council – Scouting America $7,500
After-school program/day camp for at-risk youth to participate in Scouts
HUB Transition Centers $7,500
Transitional housing for recovery from addiction and homelessness
New Morning $2,750
Counseling and access to contraceptive methods for low-income & uninsured women
Lakelands Region Y $5,275
Restoration of outdoor camp facility damaged by Hurricane Helene
Greenwood Performing Arts $3,800
Structured music & art activities for seniors with cognitive impairments
Please see the article about our grant awards featured in the Index Journal here.
Grant recipients were determined by ranked voting by our Members from October 20-22. Our Grants Review & Awards Committee gathered information obtained from the platform used for our online ballots. Using raw scores, weighted averages, and percentile rankings based on the total amount available to grant, the Committee evaluated the data and determined the number of projects to be funded and the amount of each grant.
Special thanks to the Grants Review & Awards Committee for all your efforts to: create a grant writing workshop, publicize this granting opportunity to local nonprofits, process applications, present information on grant requests to Members to help us make informed voting decisions, explain our voting process, determine awards based on our votes, deliver our 2025 GWC Grants checks to the recipients, and manage all the other aspects of this core activity of GWC!
Congratulations to our 2025 GWC Grant recipients! We are grateful for all your excellent efforts to improve the quality of our shared life in Greenwood County!
