Anderson / South Carolina / United States
We are a non-profit Community Action Agency that provides a wide range of services to low and moderate-income residents in upstate South Carolina. SHARE was chartered as an educational charitable organization in 1966 under the name of Greenville County Council Community Actions, Inc and is designated as a 501c (3) nonprofit organization by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The agency was renamed SHARE in 1979 and has consistently helped thousand of families annually in its primary service areas of Greenville, Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties. Community Action Agencies are local, public and private non-profit agencies that work to alleviate poverty and empower low-income families in communities throughout the United States. CAAs were originally created through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to fight Americas "War on Poverty". Today, more than 35 years later, there are over 1, 000 Community Action Agencies nationwide that provide services to more than 98% of the nations cities and counties, and are a primary source of support for the more than 38 million Americans living in poverty.
