Greenwood Women Care awarded $72,100 in grants to 11 nonprofit organizations in their 2024 grant cycle.
GWC, an initiative of the Greenwood County Community Foundation, has more than 160 local members who donated the funds during 2024 to provide support to help the homeless, the hungry, and those with cancer as well as so many others.
Including this yearas 2024 contribution, GWC has given nearly $404,000 to 62 organizations in its six years of granting.
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Getting Out and Staying Out, co-founded by Tony Smith of the VSA Consulting Group, works to reduce recidivism rate among men at Rikers Island, New York City. The recidivism rate significantly dropped from 60-plus percent to under 20 percent, with more than a thousand men over a span of eight years.