BARS Academy*: provides youth with creative and entrepreneurial skill building, educational, and positive character development programming.

Big Brother Big Sister*: creating and supporting meaningful one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and potential of youth.

Bloom Upstate*: provide stability to families who are under-resourced by connecting them to viable resources and comprehensive holistic programming.

Boy Scouts of the Upstate: Palmetto Council: provides the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership.

Brown Girls Read: a safe place for brown girls to explore life and different places through places in a book through characters that look like them.

BRUH Mentor*: (Brothers Restoring Urban Hope) helps young people discover who they are, develop their strengths, and helps with their challenges through mentorship.

Citizen Scholars: provides youth with the life skills, knowledge, and character development needed to obtain college scholarships, complete college, and become contributing citizens through mentorship and program support.

City of Spartanburg Parks and Recreation*: is dedicated to enhancing your quality of life by providing a variety of recreational programs and opportunities in safe, well-maintained facilities and parks.

Girl Scouts of SC Mountains to Midlands: builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Girls on the Run: inspires ALL girls to build confidence and make intentional decisions while fostering care and compassion for self and others. Trained coaches use physical activity and dynamic discussion to build social, emotional and physical skills in every girl.

HALTER*: is an equine therapy program enhancing the quality of life for children with challenges through equine-assisted activities. It serves children up to the age of 22 if they are in the public school system.

Hub City Farmers Market*: increases the supply, demand, and access to healthy, local food for all in Spartanburg County.

iTutor*: Provides study methods that ensure improvement in scores and overall academic achievement.

Just Excellent Productions: provides creative experiences for individuals who desire to expand their creative knowledge and theatrical ability.

Mental Fitness, Inc.: supports mental health initiatives by offering resources proven to enhance an individual’s ability to cope with stress, make healthy choices, and develop positive relationships.

Multiplying Good: works in a range of schools to help youth identify what they are passionate about, and build the skills needed to do something about it.

My Brothers Keepers Alliance of South Carolina*: provides young people an environment and programs in which they have equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity, regardless of circumstance, zip code, or social status, not just for boys and young men, but for our community as a whole.

N.E.S.S.A In Your Neighborhood*: (Navigate, Explore, Serve, Sustain, and Advocate) identifies the critical needs of the underserved and builds bridges by partnering with organizations and community initiatives to uncover resources needed to move others toward economic mobility and self-sufficiency.

Spartanburg Area Mental Health Center: gives priority to adults, children, and their families affected by serious mental illnesses and significant emotional disorders. We are committed to eliminating stigma and promoting the philosophy of recovery, to achieving our goals in collaboration with all stakeholders, and to assuring the highest quality of culturally competent services possible.

Spartanburg County Public Libraries*: offers programs and events for teens.

Spartanburg Art Museum: offers education, programs, and scholarship opportunities for all ages. The art museum is a regional museum promoting contemporary visual arts by inspiring and engaging people of all ages through exhibitions and education.

Spartanburg Science Center: (The John F. Green Spartanburg Science Center) provides science education and enrichment for the students and adults of Spartanburg County through interactive educational programs, hands-on exhibits, and community outreach.

Speaking Down Barriers: works with people, communities, organizations, & institutions to build an equitable world through healing & justice using spoken word poetry, transformative dialogue, workshops, and deep listening as tools . The organization works use human differences of race, class, sexual orientation, gender, national identity, and religion as sources of collective strength rather than division.

Student Solutions: offers intensive individualized tutoring, small group learning labs, and strategy support sessions, for parents and caregivers with a focus on early learners, birth- age 8, and professional development for early childhood educators.

Sylvan Learning* (Spartanburg): offers tutoring programs for math, algebra, reading, writing, study skills and more provided by certified teachers and interactive technology. Individual and group SAT and ACT test prep is also available.

The Sound of Learning*: writes and creates songs and dance that are educational and inspirational for young adults. The lyrics of the songs focus on transferring negative thoughts, notions and actions into positive ones, and are delivered in an age-appropriate manner.

Uplift Outreach Center*: Provides a safe place and needed resources for homeless and at-risk youth who identify as LGBTQ+.

Upstate Carolina Adaptive Golf: addresses lack of equity in adaptive recreation and enhances lives, improves health and mobility, and provides hope, encouragement, and joy through a therapeutic approach to adaptive golf.

Writer’s Well: Series of free workshops and retreats designed to nurture the imagination of Black girls/femmes, 12-19, living in South Carolina interested in writing and performance.

YMCA of Greater Spartanburg: puts Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.