Toby Fleming is the Director of Pastoral Care here at JUMPSTART SC. Take a look into Toby’s role and how he is making a positive impact...

As the associate warden at Ridgeland Correctional, a medium-security prison in South Carolina, Bailey has dedicated his life to helping...

Do you want to be known as a difference-maker? Be like Dan. Dan is someone everyone would love to have as a friend . Dan's title doesn't...

As you watch the video, please prayerfully consider how you might get involved with serving or giving to support life transformation.

Through tears a mom can administer Narcan to her son when he overdoses... But she can't give him life. Anthony grew up in a good...

Nancy Harrison made a generous gift to JUMPSTART SC in honor of her late husband, Lewis Harrison’s legacy. We asked her to share some...

Upon their release on March 1, 2024 these two men would have been left at this bus station in Florence without anywhere to go and only...

Proposed Opportunity Center: JUMPSTART SC has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Truist Charitable Fund. This launches a three-year...

Programs don’t spark change. People do. There’s a famous program that talks a lot about their efforts in reducing recidivism. We are not...

Jon Ozmint served in the US Navy before earning his Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1990. He then spent five...

JUMPSTART was dreamed up on Chuck Fields’s back porch during a conversation between him, Don Williams, and Tim Terry, so he’s been there...

A lifelong resident of Spartanburg, Tommy Holt began working at the age of eleven before going off to earn his degree from Clemson. From...

Originally hailing from New Jersey, Dr. Michael Scharff served as a decorated officer in the US Army from 1983 to 1994, ending his...

Bob Caldwell, Sr. is a graduate of The Citadel and served the US in Vietnam as part of the 5th Special Forces Group. In 1975, he founded...

Donald Spann earned a degree in Physical Education and Health from the College of Charleston with an emphasis in Sports Medicine....

Born and raised in Greenville, SC, Mike Kirakides graduated from Clemson University in 1988 before going into his family’s business to...

Sharon McDowell grew up in Spartanburg and majored in both accounting and music. Working in accounting for twenty years, she currently...

Raised in Tennessee, Jon Jamison attended New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary where he earned a Master of Divinity in Christian...

Hailing from Aiken, SC, Dr. Gwendolyn Johnson spent forty-five years in education, teaching everyone from public school kindergarteners...

Gwendolyn “Gwen” Bright started her career of public service in the 1970s with South Carolina’s Department of Disabilities and Special...