$4.5M distributed by One S.C. Fund for COVID-19 response

COLUMBIA - The One S.C. Fund: COVID-19 Response, housed at Central Carolina Community Foundation, announced Tuesday that more than $4.5 million was awarded during the fund's activation for COVID-19 assistance. The grants were awarded through a targeted approach to support South Carolina's most vulnerable communities and aided South Carolinians with food assistance, sheltering, education support for children, rent/utility assistance and personal protective equipment.

"The One S.C. Fund's grants provided relief to all 46 counties in South Carolina," says JoAnn Turnquist, president and CEO of Central Carolina Community Foundation. "The funds were awarded to nonprofits best positioned to provide support to their communities."

Since activation in March 2020, the fund awarded a total of $4,559,939 to 115 nonprofits serving all 46 counties in South Carolina. These grants provided essential goods and services to more than 850,000 South Carolinians throughout the pandemic. More than 600,000 people - 78% of people served - received food assistance through the relief grants.

The One S.C. Fund was established in 2015 as a statewide disaster relief fund and has directed donations to relief efforts for the Thousand-Year Flood, Hurricane Matthew and Hurricane Florence. The One S.C. Fund: COVID-19 Response, activated in March 2020, was a statewide response to food, shelter, health and nonprofit sustainability needs stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

The majority of the funds awarded were raised thanks to the following generous individuals and corporations:

- BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

- Central Carolina Community Foundation

- Cigna

- Colonial Life

- The David Tepper Foundation

- Delta Dental of South Carolina

- Dominion Energy

- The Duke Endowment

- Duke Energy

- Fullerton Foundation

- Haley Family Foundation

- Harbor Freight Tools Foundation, LLC

- Lipscomb Family Foundation

- Lockheed Martin Corporation

- Nowak Charitable Fund

- Samsung

- SC Physician's Care Charity

- Select Health

- Sisters of Charity

- TD Bank Charity

- Three Hebrew Boys Case Settlement

- Truist Bank

- Verizon

- Walmart Inc

- Wells Fargo