Upstate, SC - The Upstate Homeless
Coalition has received the SC Rural Communities Compassion Project
grant. The $17, 800 grant is the first step to executing the 10-year
plan that was written by the S.C Homeless Coalition in 2005 and
distributed throughout South Carolina last year after a federal
mandate. Beginning May 1, the Upstate Homeless Coalition hired
Nanci Konsavage to execute the plan and build awareness about how
the plan will work in Spartanburg County.
Nanci is a Kansas State University graduate with a degree in community
planning. Past experience includes Community Development Specialist
for Spartanburg County and handling Federal Funds reporting on
homelessness and affordable housing. "My initiatives for the next 9
months is to build awareness of homelessness in Spartanburg County
and gain support from our local city and county government", says
Nanci. "There are an abundance of agencies in our county that can
help us provide much needed resources, ideas and answers that can
directly contribute to ending homelessness in Spartanburg County."
The South Carolina Center for Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership
(Center), under the auspices of the South Carolina Collaborative for
Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership and the Institute on Family and
Neighborhood Life, a Public Service Activity of Clemson University,
is one of the original 21 organizations in the country awarded the
Compassion Capital Fund as part of President George Bush's Faith
Based and Community Initiative. The Center is now implementing the
SC Rural Communities Project (Compassion Project) which includes
technical assistance to the state in the form of informative
workshops, funding resources, the Resource Associates Network,
one-on-one skills training, distance learning events, and web
resources. For more information about the Compassion Project,
visit
http://sclc.clemson.edu.
The Upstate Homeless Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated
to identifying the needs of homeless people and to finding solutions
to homelessness in the upstate through programming, housing, and
advocacy. The UHC is the umbrella organization for homeless programs
in all 13 counties in the Upstate. The organization provides services
for the homeless in 7 of those counties: Greenville, Spartanburg,
Anderson, Laurens, Oconee, Union and Cherokee.
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