Momentum is strong, and growing stronger, for the SPC Cares Foundation as it nears its second anniversary in October 2026. The Cares Foundation, founded in the fall of 2024 as a way for SPC Credit Union to strategically support hunger, housing, employment, and education initiatives within Darlington, Marlboro, Chesterfield, and Florence counties, has awarded $18,200 to local nonprofits in the first six months of the year alone, not to mention nearly $5,000 in Member Hardship Requests and $15,000 in Down Payment Assistance Forgivable Loans.
In May, the foundation’s advisory committee approved one dozen Community Impact Grant requests, each for $1,000. Grant recipients included the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Pee Dee Area, Community Action Volunteer Experience (CAVE), Child & Family Resource Center, Christ City of Refuge, Educational Foundation of Lower Florence County, Hartsville Little Theatre, Kingdom Community Services, My Brother’s Keeper, Pee Dee Coalition, Rooted in Hartsville, Rubicon Family Counseling, and the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics. Funding awarded to these organizations will support irrigation installation for a new community garden in Hartsville; the provision of hot meals for homeless and hungry residents of Florence; housing and rehabilitation services for individuals and families emerging from homelessness, addiction, and incarceration in Darlington County; and programmatic needs for a therapeutic day camp for children and families navigating grief, trauma, and loss, among other initiatives that fall within the foundation’s four pillars.
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