Our Community Based Non-Profit Partners
Beyond Our Gates has formed strategic relationships with 27 of the finest local organizations serving the critical needs of the low-income communities adjacent to Kiawah and Seabrook Islands.
Mental Health Services
A Time of Refreshing is an organization that holds grief counseling sessions across the Charleston area for people who have encountered devastating loss.
Education, Child Services
Arts, etc. provides literary, visual and performing arts programs for the K-12 public school children of Johns and Wadmalaw Islands.
Food Insecurity, Child Services
Backpack Buddies is a Kiawah Women’s Foundation program that proactively combats childhood hunger in “at-risk” children attending Title 1 schools on the Charleston Sea Islands.
Healthcare
Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic provides free medical services to low-income, uninsured adults who live and/or work on the Charleston Sea Islands.
Education, Child Services
Begin with Books, the Charleston affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, is a book gifting program that mails monthly books to the families of babies and toddlers to foster early literacy.
Mental Health, Family Services
Bridges of Hope is an organization focused on providing a safe group environment to support and empower children and their families in the Charleston area who are grieving a death.
Child Services, Family Services
Camp Happy Days' mission is to support and encourage children diagnosed with cancer (and their families) in the Charleston region by providing free year-round programs, special events and access to crisis resources.
Senior Services, Food Insecurity
Charleston Area Senior Citizens is an organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of the most economically challenged members of the senior citizen community in the Charleston area.
Disability, Health Services
Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding empowers children, adults and military veterans with physical and/or mental disabilities to enjoy more active and fulfilling lives through therapeutic horsemanship.
Child Services, Mental Health Services
Charleston Hope aims to increase access to mental and behavioral health programs in Title 1 schools in the Charleston area to enhance student well-being.
Recreation, Child Services
Edisto Island Youth Recreation provides opportunities for kids on Edisto Island to participate in athletics and recreational activities. Located approximately 20 miles from the nearest recreation area with no readily available transportation, the lack of youth recreational programs on the island is a serious issue.
Food Insecurity
Fields to Families’ goal is to alleviate hunger in the greater Charleston area by harvesting, collecting, growing and distributing local produce to a network of food banks, service agencies and programs.
Women’s Services, Family Services
Florence Crittenton Programs' mission is to provide hope, safety, medical care, and opportunity to at-risk pregnant and parenting young women in foster care in the Charleston area to provide them with the skills and resources needed for success in life for themselves and their babies.
Child Services, Recreation
Going Places is an organization whose mission is to bring joy to children by providing elementary students in Charleston’s Title 1 schools with a brand-new bicycle, lock, helmet and tire pump.
Child Services, Family Services
HALOS is a Charleston-based organization that provides financial support and services for children who live in the full-time care of grandparents and other relatives, otherwise known as “kinship care”. Kinship caregivers often lack the financial and social support offered to children placed in foster care.
Housing Services, Crisis Services
James Island Outreach provides crisis relief and ongoing support (emergency food, medicine, utility assistance and home repair) for low-income residents on James Island.
Education, Child Services
Kids on Point, in partnership with the College of Charleston, has a mission to introduce young people in the Charleston area to the world of opportunity outside of their under-resourced neighborhoods through year-round academic, athletic, and enrichment programs.
Child Services, Family Services
Low Country Orphan Relief’s mission is to provide support services and aid to meet the needs of children in the Charleston area identified as at-risk or suffering from abandonment, abuse and/or neglect.
Housing, Crisis Services
One80 Place is an organization whose mission is to end homelessness in the Charleston area by providing temporary housing, medical assistance, job training and anti-eviction legal services to those in need.
Housing Services
Operation Home’s mission is to help people in the Charleston area remain in their homes by increasing safety and accessibility.
Healthcare
Operation Sight is committed to restoring vision and enhancing the quality of life for uninsured Charleston area residents affected by cataracts or urgent, sight-threatening retinal disorders.
Poverty, Family Services
Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach addresses the root causes of poverty and creates systematic change by providing basic and emergency resources, educational training, job assistance and health services to those in need in the Charleston area.
Housing Services
Paraclete Foundation is a Holy Spirit Catholic Church program whose mission is to assist low-income Johns and Wadmalaw Islands residents in obtaining repairs and upgrades necessary to allow them to remain in their homes.
Housing Services
Sea Islands Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in the Charleston area through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions.
Food Insecurity
Sea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation’s Blessings Basket program provides nutritious food to those in need on Johns and Wadmalaw Islands.
Education, Child Services
Teachers’ Supply Closet provides free school supplies to teachers in the Charleston area who work at Title 1 schools.
Education, Family Services
Turn 90 works to create an opportunity for success for those restarting their lives after prison via cognitive behavioral classes, case management, transitional work and job placement.
