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More than Do Something
My Resource Guide is not just a collection of things, support agencies, and non-profits trying to do good in our community. We are part of a growing number of people that want to do more than something. We want to […]
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AIM’s Covid Relief Fund Begins
AIM (Anderson Interfaith Ministries) of Anderson County is managing a program called the Covid Relief Fund (CRF). The CRF is designed to help residents of Anderson County that need help with rent and utility payments due to Covid-19. Use your […]
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Homeland Park vulnerable populations – by the numbers
Introduction After spending time in communities across Anderson County over the last several years, it seems appropriate to take a hard look at the underlying data to quantitatively define some of the problems that are most evident. This will show […]
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2020 Self-Sufficiency Standard
We’re excited to provide a link to the 2020 Self-Sufficiency Standard for South Carolina. Here are a few snippets to get your interest: The Self-Sufficiency Standard is a measure of income adequacy that is based on the costs of basic […]
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Online Edition (version 1.1)
Version 1.1 of our Online Community Resource Guide has been out for a while, but not everyone knows about the features and what we’re trying to accomplish with this tool. The Online edition offers additional resources along with features that […]
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Updates for August 2020 – The COVID-19 Edition!
It is hard to believe we haven’t updated the Community Resource Guide since the pandemic officially hit Anderson, but here we are! Over 100 updates are planned. Please take a look and let us know if we missed something or […]
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What is Addiction?
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) updated its definition of addiction in October of 2019. The new definition takes into account the complex biological, social, psychological and environmental aspects of the disease in an attempt to help others better […]
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Limited Affordable Housing
Our county’s affordable housing has limited availability: there are only 22% of the subsidized rental housing units needed for low-income renters (SC Housing Needs Assessment 2019); further, 45.4% of Anderson County’s housing stock is considered functionally obsolete and represents a […]
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McKinney-Vento
How many children in Anderson County’s school districts (all five) were identified as homeless under the McKinney-Vento definition of homeless in the school year 2018-2019? About 120 About 750 About 1000 About 1500 The correct answer to the quiz is […]
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Winter 2020 Updates
Here’s a summary of updates for our Winter 2020 version. We hope to distribute this edition by the first week of February 2020.
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Finding Your Passion
We believe the community is best served when we match volunteers with similar passions to organizations that address each particular need. To address this goal, we are working on an exercise designed to help people identify their top passions and […]