Grants

The first Trinity Bazaar took place in 1948. It was dinner and an auction to raise funds for Columbian’s diagnosed with tuberculosis.

For over 70 years the Bazaar has continued its tradition of giving. Each year, Trinity Cathedral’s Daughters of the Holy Cross give virtually all monies raised by the Bazaar back to the midlands citizens in need via Bazaar Grants to select Columbia 501(c)-3 nonprofit service organizations.

How are Grantees Chosen?

During the winter season, members of Trinity Cathedral’s general congregation propose local 501(c)-3 service organizations seeking operating or project-specific funds. These organizations complete applications detailing the purpose of their request and showing that they meet grant criteria. They also host a site visit. In May of each year, the Trinity Daughters of the Holy Cross Grants Committee select and announce final grant recipients for the upcoming Bazaar. Funds raised by the Bazaar are disbursed in the weeks after the Bazaar takes place.

The Grant application process has not begun for the 2024 Bazaar. Nominations will be accepted from Trinity Cathedral members from January 1 through February 1, 2024. Please contact us at TrinityBazaar@TrinitySC.org for further information.

2023 Trinity Bazaar Grant Recipients are:

  • Dianne’s Call: Founded by Bonita Clemons to address food insecurity in the 29203 zip code with a holistic combination of healthy lifestyle classes and access to natural foods.
  • E.A.R.N. The Right (Empathy, Attitude, Respect, (K)nowledge): Equip at risk youth, community youth, and those who serve them to self-advocate in educational, workplace and community settings helping them to become responsible, productive citizens.
  • Keepin’ It Real Ministries: Dedicated to assisting the homeless and less fortunate on their individual journeys toward recovery and stability through the power of the good news of Jesus Christ.
  • Power In Changing: A diaper bank that serves families in financial hardship by helping keep their babies and toddlers stay healthy and dry with diapers and training pants.
  • Trinity Recovery: A program of Lutheran Services of the Carolinas. A regional, faith-based recovery program, Trinity Bazaar funds will be used only for client services assisting those in Richland County with substance abuse disorder.

Previous Grant Recipients include:

2021

  • The Dyslexia Resource Center: Helping beginning and struggling readers with awareness, direct assistance, and by training educators.
  • The Free Medical Clinic: Providing quality care at no cost to residents of the midlands who cannot afford to pay for care and have no health insurance.
  • Hive Community Circle: Survivor-led, survivor-driven support for women and girls in South Carolina overcoming the trauma of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and stalking.
  • The Therapy Place: Innovative therapies for kids; resources for families.
  • The Salvation Army of the Midlands: Serving Fairfield, Kershaw, Lexington, Newberry and Richland Counties.

2019

2018

  • ALALA: Helping post surgical cancer patients stay in the continuum of care with educational resources, support, and supplies.
  • JumpStart Prison Ministries: A 42-week prison life skills program that reduces recidivism and improves quality of life after incarceration. Offered through Camille Graham Women’s Prison
  • SisterCare: Early intervention counseling, services, and advocacy for women leaving violent relationships, survivors of domestic violence and their children. 
  • Toby’s Place: A program of the Oliver Gospel Mission, Toby’s Place provides long-term transitional housing and life skills training for Columbia’s hidden homeless: women and children. This grant helped improve the children’s play area, important to their growth and well-being. 
  • Transitions Homeless Center: Transitions is the Columbia midland’s largest shelter providing homeless men and women aged 18 and older access to a day center, hot meals, showers, service providers and housing. This grant supported Youth Program for young residents aged 18-24, 

2017

  • Columbia Free Medical Clinic: help purchase equipment to diagnose and treat skin disorders, including pre-cancerous lesions.
  • Fresh Start Ministry of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church: help provide free laundry service, showers, HIV testing and blood pressure screenings to homeless and working-poor residents of Columbia’s Waverly neighborhood. (Learn more about the ministry here.)
  • Growing Home Southeast:  help with rental subsidies for residents living at Leaphart Place, a 20-unit complex that provides housing and support services for young adults (18-28) who have aged out of the foster care system.
  • Keeping it Real Ministries:  create ‘essentials’ backpacks containing clothes and toiletries for people living on the streets of Columbia. Also, help fund two events featuring a hot meal, music, worship, and inspiration.
  • Lighthouse for Life: help open Karis House, a refuge for girls aged 12-21 who have been rescued from sex trafficking in South Carolina.

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*Founded by Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in 1989, St. Lawrence Place is a primary program of Homeless No More, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to offering a seamless continuum of services and housing to homeless and at-risk families in the midlands of South Carolina.