SPARTANBURG — Upstate Warrior Solution is acceptable to unfastened a caller determination successful the Robert Hett Chapman III Center for Philanthropy aboriginal adjacent year.
During a quality league connected Dec. 1, Spartanburg County Foundation announced that the enactment is the archetypal John. T Wardlaw Partner successful Residence astatine the Robert Hett Chapman III Center for Philanthropy. Upstate Warrior Solution’s 2,500 quadrate feet of bureau abstraction connected the 2nd level of the halfway is scheduled to beryllium afloat operational by Jan. 2. The enactment volition enactment successful the abstraction astatine 431 E. Kennedy St. crossed from the Spartanburg County Foundation for 5 years.
“Our veterans are 1 of our treasured assemblage assets, and they merit the best,” said Charlie Hall, president of Upstate Warrior Solution. “We privation to service them successful a truly welcoming, holistic environment.”
The enactment provides enactment services for veterans and their families crossed the Upstate. The nonprofit began serving veterans successful 2012, and helps radical navigate Veterans Administration benefits, unemployment, intelligence health, transportation, housing, acquisition and healthcare.
Upstate Warrior Solution’s erstwhile bureau abstraction was successful downtown Spartanburg connected West Saint John Street. The enactment besides has offices successful Greenville and Anderson, serving Greenville, Pickens, Anderson and Oconee counties.
“Over the past 8 years, we've been successful inadequate space,” Hall said. “We haven't had a batch of ft postulation due to the fact that our marque hasn't been retired connected the street.”
Hall said the caller bureau volition springiness unit and the organization’s partners a spot to enactment retired of collaboratively and let for much outreach opportunities.
“We had been looking for a spouse for astir 2 years,” said Mary Thomas, COO of the Spartanburg County Foundation and enforcement manager of the Robert Hett Chapman III Center for Philanthropy. “There's nary amended fit, we believe, successful our assemblage than Upstate Warrior Solution that tin truly maximize that abstraction for the payment of our community.”
The Robert Hett Chapman III Center for Philanthropy opened successful 2021 and is simply a portion of the Spartanburg County Foundation. The instauration built the halfway to service arsenic a collaborative abstraction for nonprofits, businesses and different assemblage members. The Partner successful Residence abstraction was reserved for an enactment whose goals aligned with Spartanburg County Foundation’s mission.
The abstraction is named to grant John T. Wardlaw, who served arsenic a trustee and president of the Spartanburg County Foundation.