Resort Impact on Indigenous People in Coastal South Carolina -a project to implement the South Carolina Community Development BanCorporation in the Palmetto Development Group to meet the credit, capital and enterprise training needs of small and micro businesses

ð Funded by Aspen Institute

 

Manpower Utilization of the Rural Poor -a project to examine and address the long term problems of new job creation, business development, unemployment, and underemployment facing low income people in sixteen, primarily non metropolitan counties of South Carolina ð Funded by Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

 

  Faith-based Adult Mentoring Program - a pilot mentoring program with Welfare-to-Work Participants ð Funded by Santee Lynches Regional Council of Government

  Pathways to the Future - a statewide forum examining ways out of poverty ð Funded by Kellogg Foundation

"The Incidence and Character of Low-Wage Work - a living wage study commissioned by the Institute and conducted by The Economic Policy Institute of Washington, DC

Influential Sectors Project - A two-year research project to determine the causal factors of chronic poverty in South Carolina and to gain a commitment among persons of influence to work towards the elimination of systemic poverty ð Funded by Sisters of Charity Foundation and US Economic Development Administration

"Understanding Poverty" - A higher-education course taught in colleges and universities in Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina

ChurchLINC Consortium - An initiative to build the capacity of rural churches to address social concerns and respond to requests to develop community partnerships

Health Care Initiative - Public awareness and advocacy for the underserved