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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Poverty, Low-Income Family Support, Children in Poverty, South Carolina
Deadline: Mar. 24, 2026 (letters of intent)
“Systems Change Grants fund organizations and coalitions that are working to change the policies, power structures and mindsets that cause and reinforce poverty in South Carolina. These grants specifically fund systems change that supports economic mobility and housing security. Through these grants, we aim to generate a larger impact through more intentional funding, highly focused work and alignment across our Foundation’s activities. [Grants support] organizations addressing systems change in at least one of the following ways:
- Participating in advocacy and lobbying
- Focus on changing policies, practices, processes, rules or laws
- Impacting resource flows (i.e., reallocated and/or new funding streams)
- Holding systems accountable to their intended purpose through the above as well as through litigation
- Addressing unequal power
- Focus on changing the distribution and dynamics of privilege, relationships and tradition
- Organizing and building connections and coalitions that center community voices and perspectives
- Civic engagement
- Affirming the dignity of people experiencing poverty
- Focus on changing the narrative around poverty
- Focus on changing attitudes, mindsets, values, belief systems, norms, mental models and paradigms
- Implementing big impact, scalable, or innovative solutions
- Focus on changing results, especially for groups experiencing inequitable outcomes as a result of historic and current marginalization.”
Funder: Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
Eligibility: “Organizations and coalitions that are working to change the policies, power structures and mindsets that cause and reinforce poverty in South Carolina.”
Amount: Local/Regional Level: Up to $75,000 | State-Level: Up to $100,000
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