Wake Up Carolina

Wake Up Carolina is a tax-exempt non-profit organization operating as a sub-recipient on federal substance abuse and recovery services grants, with no direct prime contract or grant relationships. The organization acts exclusively as a subgrantee under pass-through awards from the South Carolina Department of Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Services (DAODAS), which receives funding from the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

All seven federal awards in the recent portfolio — totaling $621 thousand obligated across 2023 through 2025 — flow through DAODAS as the prime grantee. Wake Up Carolina's work centers on recovery support services (RSS) delivery and substance use disorder treatment in Charleston County, South Carolina. Specific scope includes recovery services, opioid and stimulant use disorder prevention, treatment, harm reduction and recovery programming under the South Carolina State Opioid Response (SC SOR) Project, and outpatient and intensive outpatient substance use disorder clinical services. The organization operates as a Recovery Community Organization (RCO) providing RSS aligned to DAODAS's catchment-area needs.

Activity has been episodic — three awards in 2023, two in 2024, two in 2025 — with no upward trajectory visible in the bounded source window. Customer concentration is absolute; SAMHSA is the sole funding federal agency across all seven awards, and all federal funding reaches Wake Up Carolina through a single state pass-through agency. The organization has no seat on federal contract vehicles, no direct federal contracting authority, and no history of competing for prime contracts or grants. Funding concentration and geographic scope (Charleston County, South Carolina) indicate a regionally focused grassroots recovery services provider embedded in South Carolina's substance abuse services ecosystem rather than a vendor positioned for federal market expansion or multistate scale.