Feed the Community! Support our local food pantries this season
Local food pantries are seeing an increased demand for their services, along with the usual increase they see in fall and winter months. You can now select Feed the Community as the purpose for your donation to Community Foundation of Greater Clemson. These contributions support food pantries that serve households in Pickens County, Oconee County, and Pendleton, SC.
Women for Women Giving Circle
Our mission is to inspire giving to advance the well-being of women in our community now and into the future. We believe that if you lift women up, you are lifting up their families and future generations.
The Women For Women giving circle of the Community Foundation of Greater Clemson is an alliance of like-minded women working to make a greater impact on the lives and well-being of women and their families in Pickens County, Oconee County and Pendleton, SC.
How it works: Membership dues are a minimum of $300 per year, with a three-year commitment. An impressive 90% of dues go directly to grant awards for nonprofits serving women in our community.
For more information, email Women For Women.
Feed the Community
Selecting Feed The Community (food pantry support) as the purpose for your donation allows CFGC to ensure that your donation directly supports food pantries that serve families in Pickens county, Oconee county, and Pendleton, SC.
Food insecurity is an official term from the USDA. It's when people don't have enough to eat and don't know where their next meal will come from.
Feeding America's 2025 Report on Food Insecurity shows:
- 14.7% of households in Pickens County are food insecure (based on 2023 data)
- 15.5% of households in Oconee County are food insecure (based on 2023 data)
(source: https://www.feedingamerica.org/research/map-the-meal-gap/overall-executive-summary)
The USDA similarly reports that South Carolina has the 7th highest rate of food insecurity in the United States, with 14.4% of SC households being food insecure.
(source: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/interactive-charts-and-highlights)
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