If you’re not sure where or how you want to give back, start with your passion. Maybe there’s a problem in the world that you’d like to see solved or a cause you feel strongly about. Get out there and make a change.
🐶 If you want to work with animals (because *puppies* – Just don’t try to take them all home)...
- Greenville Humane Society: Be a dog walker, a foster parent, a pet therapy volunteer, or check out the full list here.
- Happy Hooves: Help with therapeutic riding lessons, school field trips, and other special events.
- Speak for Animals: Help with event planning, marketing, community outreach, and animal transportation.
👶🏽 If you want to work with children (+ help them be the change we need in this world) …
- Junior Achievement: Work with students in kindergarten through high school with financial literacy, work readiness and other skills that lead to a successful future.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate: Take your little brother or sister out for a baseball game, to the library, or to share a pizza. Be a good influence in a child’s life. 6 hours per month required.
- Girls on the Run: Become a coach, help out behind the scenes/hang flyers, or become a running buddy for the 5K race
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Carolinas: Help with office and housekeeping duties or provide and prepare baked goods or dinner for our 12 families currently staying at our House.
- Little Steps: Greenville based organization focused on empowering teen parents through education, mentoring, parenting classes and peer support groups.
- Fostering Great Ideas: Mentor a youth in care, hold a luggage drive in your community so children move with luggage and dufflebags instead of garbage bags, or consider being a foster parent.
👯 If you want to volunteer as a small group of friends or coworkers…
- YouthBase: Prepare, provide, deliver and serve dinner to families at Family Night once a month from 5:30 – 7 p.m. from September to May.
- Serenity Place: Make a home-cooked meal and serve it to the 16 families at Serenity Place or help organize a food drive.
🍯 If you want to help end hunger (because in South Carolina, 746,810 people are facing hunger - and 225,550 are children)…
- Harvest Hope Food Bank: Pack backpacks with lunches for kids or help at one of the 13 after-school Kids Cafe sites, which serve an average of 300 children over 3,100 nutritious, warm meals monthly.
⭐️ If you want to help people with disabilities…
🏘 If you want to focus on rebuilding the community…
🚨 If you want to comfort and assist those in crisis...
🏩 If you want to help out in the medical field…
You can also make donations to places like Goodwill, which helps provide career training, employment services, and job placement in communities across the Upstate.
