United Way Of Kershaw County

United Way of Kershaw County is a South Carolina-based nonprofit organization that operates as a prime recipient and sub-recipient of federal grants focused on youth homelessness prevention, emergency shelter operations, and community education initiatives, with no federal contracting footprint. The organization's federal grant work concentrates in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's homelessness programs and AmeriCorps national service delivery through the Corporation for National and Community Service.

As a prime grant recipient, United Way of Kershaw County holds a $276,524 HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grant (CFDA 14.267) awarded October 1, 2025, running through September 30, 2026, to prevent and end youth homelessness in Camden, South Carolina under the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) framework. The award funds permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) coordination, and homelessness prevention activities targeting households where no person exceeds age 24. United Way also held a predecessor YHDP grant from HUD running October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2025, and received a cooperative agreement from the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (awarded September 15, 2021, completion September 14, 2026) supporting eight community gardens across eight communities in Kershaw County.

As a sub-recipient, United Way of Kershaw County receives annual AmeriCorps subgrants from the United Way Association of South Carolina, Inc., the prime grantee, to place AmeriCorps national service members in Kershaw County public schools delivering literacy support ("Ready Readers" program) to elementary students. Sub-awards in this stream run annually from August 2022 through August 2025, with the most recent subgrant dated August 1, 2025, supporting education-focused AmeriCorps service. United Way also acts as sub-recipient on HUD Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) awards passed through by a state or local fiscal agent, most recently in September 2025 and August 2024, supporting street outreach, emergency shelter operations, rapid rehousing, homelessness prevention, and HMIS infrastructure.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to HUD's homelessness and housing programs, which account for 10 of 19 awards (84% of the portfolio by count). The Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) generates 5 awards, all sub-recipient, while the Department of Agriculture supplies one prime cooperative agreement. Combined obligated dollars across all 19 awards total $3.3 million. Activity has been modest and variable — one award in 2021, two in 2022, three in 2023, two in 2024, and three in 2025. Two awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (the YHDP grant completing September 30, 2026, and the NRCS cooperative agreement completing September 14, 2026), presenting recompete opportunity in HUD's CoC/YHDP competition cycle and potential renewal in NRCS community conservation work.