About the Foundation
The South Carolina Technical College System Foundation supports efforts to provide high-quality, relevant, and effective programs that promote economic and workforce development throughout the state.
Mission
The South Carolina Technical College System Foundation proudly supports the South Carolina Technical College System. The Foundation is dedicated to enhancing economic development and workforce empowerment within the state through impactful programming designed to ignite economic growth and empower our state’s growing workforce.
Vision
By creating impactful programs that are easy to access and more affordable, the Foundation partners with the System, and each of its colleges, to expand workforce development opportunities for residents in urban, suburban, and rural areas. The Foundation also helps connect employers with fresh and effective ways to develop workers for high-demand, skilled jobs in our ever-changing economy.
Engaging Local Communities
The Foundation resources, develops, and incubates solutions that strengthen the state’s workforce by actively engaging with individual technical colleges as well as the System to develop accessible, affordable programming that serves the state’s urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Growing Talent
By identifying opportunities to equip South Carolina workers with the tools needed to become skilled leaders, the Foundation fosters connections among employers to our state’s burgeoning talent, all while expanding the state’s employment ecosystem. Since its founding, the Foundation has facilitated interactions between workforce development boards, K-12 districts, and economic development and economic mobility organizations. Through these efforts, the Foundation bolsters the assets of the state’s largest higher education system and drives innovation to support the workforce of both today and tomorrow.
Aligning Goals
The goals of the Foundation include:
Facilitating private sector resource development for the System
Developing partnerships which aid partners in accomplishing their personal, professional, or corporate objectives that align with the System’s mission and vision
Supporting programs and objectives of the 16 associated technical colleges within the System
Advancing higher education goals of the System and the State of South Carolina
The Foundation is committed to financial transparency. Our current 990 may be viewed at this link.
Foundation Leadership
The Foundation connects employers to tested, innovative talent development approaches designed to fill in-demand, high-skilled jobs in a dynamic economy. The Foundation is governed by a dedicated Board, representing the interests of the community-at-large and the SC Technical College System.
About the Technical College System
Comprised of 16 colleges located strategically across the state and two internationally-renowned statewide programs: readySC™ and Apprenticeship Carolina™, the SC Technical College System is dedicated to furthering economic and workforce development in South Carolina.
As the state’s largest higher education system, the SC Technical System serves more than 134,000 South Carolinians each year and educates nearly half of all South Carolina undergraduates attending a public college or university. Dedicated to making a quality higher education both accessible and affordable, the System plays a key role in educating and training South Carolina’s workforce for the in-demand, high-skilled jobs of today and tomorrow.