More than one in four households in Greenville County have zero or negative net worth. Almost 20% of households are underbanked (using pawn shops, payday loans, or non-bank money orders to get by). It would take 228 years for black families to accumulate the same amount of wealth as whites. If our community is serious about promoting economic mobility, addressing this wealth disparity is fundamental.
Opportunity Zones and what they mean for Greenville County
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 included a provision for Opportunity Zones, which are a new community development program to encourage long-term private investments in select low income […]
Meeting with Greenville County Council Members
Some of the issues that are of interest to the philanthropic and nonprofit sector in Greenville County – workforce development, affordable housing, transportation, and growth – are ones best addressed […]
Housing and homelessness work reaches milestones
In the early days of Greenville Partnership for Philanthropy, we learned about how service providers to the homeless in Greenville County were collaborating in new ways and how they felt […]
