As the seasons change and our residents get back to school, we reflected on just how much we have dealt with over the past 6 months. The CYDC team used a variety of strategies to cope with the disruptions and challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic. One thing that has helped many of our residents…

We are so excited to announce that our Balloon Tree is back out!! We haven’t been able to have it out since March due to business closures! Thank you Thomas & Hutton Mount Pleasant for hosting our balloon tree this month! We are so grateful for your continued support!!

Because of YOU, Be A Mentor is here and ready to rock! Because of all of our wonderful volunteers and donors this past Spring, we are now poised to enter the new school year certain and ready to face uncertainties of any form. Because our wonderful mentors have all had updated training, they are ready…

Beginning Saturday, September 5th 2020 the Center will reopen its doors to visitors to explore the interesting and important world of raptors through outdoor programming, flight demonstrations and a virtually guided tour! For our first phase of reopening, we will welcome a limit of 50 guests each Saturday in September for our 10:30 a.m. programming.…

We’re opening the theater once again with a series of ground-breaking productions captured live from London’s West End.

From all of us at the Darkness to Light office, we hope you are staying safe and protected from COVID-19. Our staff is working 100% remotely.

To our friends, donors, partners, and community,  As our communities cried out for justice and healing five years ago in the wake of the Walter Scott shooting and the Mother Emanuel AME tragedy, Coastal Community Foundation recognized we had a duty to show leadership in our region, to read reality truthfully and to confront the…

Like many South Carolinians, I vividly remember where I was when I heard the news of the shooting at Emanuel AME Church. At the time, I was CEO of the Capital Area United Way in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After a long day of traveling, I got a call from my mother, shaken, saying, “They shot…

Five years ago, nine innocent black lives were taken by a self-avowed white supremacist during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church.  Many today in South Carolina will still be able to recall exactly where they were on the evening of June 17, 2015, when they heard the news when they realized this had happened…

On May 18, 2020, I was set to host a listening session with a U.S. Congressman to discuss South Carolina’s plan to reopen the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As we started the call, an Internet troll disrupted the call with sexually explicit sounds and words, as well as an audio clip repeating the N-word…