Help
Meet immediate needs with useful, tangible support rather than vague promises.
Our Mission
Help now. Strengthen what comes next.
A South Carolina mission built around people, place, and practical action.
The Poston Foundation strengthens South Carolina communities through practical direct aid, place-based community development, and the preservation of local history and identity. We bring together charitable resources, volunteers, businesses, and community partners to meet immediate needs with dignity while building stronger local capacity, deeper community connections, and sustainable opportunities for long-term well-being.
Our Mission Pillars
Four ideas guide how we put the mission into practice.
Build
Build programs and local capacity carefully so good work can continue beyond a single campaign or event.
Preserve
Protect the history, records, identity, and community knowledge that give South Carolina places their character.
Connect
Bring donors, volunteers, businesses, civic groups, families, and community partners into work that is easier to understand and support.
Our Focus Areas
Where the mission is visible today.
Carolina Cares Essentials Kits
Practical support packages whose contents may vary with season, need, supply availability, and funding.
Practical Direct Aid
Carolina Cares Essentials Kits and related support address immediate resource gaps with dignity and practical usefulness.
Place-Based Community Development
The Poston Preserve Initiative begins with a defined community and combines public history, local engagement, preservation, and practical development work.
Local History & Identity
Archives, oral history, maps, photographs, family records, and community memory can become public resources rather than disappear.
Our Commitment
Plans are not results. We will say which is which.
The Foundation uses planning figures to build programs, but we do not present targets as completed impact. Public reporting should distinguish what was proposed, what was funded, what actually happened, and what still needs to be built.
Explore the Carolina Cares InitiativePublic trust is strengthened when charitable purpose, operations, and claims stay aligned.”
— The Poston Foundation