Applications for our Building STEAM and Mullins Grants are live! The Building STEAM grant supports teachers in Greenville County Schools by providing resources to help implement projects that immerse students in science, technology, engineering, art, and/or mathematics. Up to $2,000 per award! In honor of our former Executive Director, Grier Mullins, the Mullins Grant for […]

March 4, 2021 – Every year, South Carolina teachers spend an average of $433 of their own money on classroom supplies, while many businesses have an office closet crammed with half-used materials they are likely to discard. Now two Upstate nonprofits are offering to redirect unwanted items from clogged closets into the classrooms of first-year […]

February 24th, 2021 – Today state legislators introduced H.3976, a partisan private school voucher bill that will redirect public funds toward private and religious schools. Despite the South Carolina Supreme Court’s two-time rejection of a similar program last fall, the state’s leadership remains intent on advancing its ideology of “educational freedom.” The real “freedom” vouchers […]

For 35 years, we have collaborated with community partners to strengthen public education for the 77,000 students and 7,000 teachers in Greenville County Schools – and right now we’re looking for a Director of Development to help us continue our work! The Director of Development will be an experienced and passionate fundraising leader who is […]

Proponents of privatizing education – that is, using taxpayer dollars that would otherwise fund our public schools – often state their case in the language of “freedom” and “choice.” Sounds great, right? But the truth is the freedom to choose where a child receives their education is often exclusive or non-existent, and comes at the […]