Scholarships
Investing in students preparing to serve others through behavioral health and continuing education.
The Cathy Lance-Timmons Foundation
We help people in the Pee Deewithout asking them to qualify.
Serving Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg, and Darlington counties with practical help, mental health connections, and scholarships for future counselors and social workers.
Clothes, food, and household basics
Mental health help close to home
College support for future caregivers
All of it honors the late Cathy Lance-Timmons.
A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Serve
Community programs, mental health resources, and partnerships that meet people where they are.
Well-being
Supporting mental health, fairness, and the belief that every person deserves a real chance to grow.
About the Foundation
Built on kindness, service, and a real chance to grow.
Cathy Lance-Timmons lived her values through patience, professionalism, and an unwavering belief that every person deserved to be treated with dignity and respect. The foundation carries that example forward through scholarships, community programs, and meaningful partnerships.
Our StoryComing Up
Cathy's Closet Community Store
Friday, October 16, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Bevis Training Center, 125 East Cheves Street, Florence, SC 29506.
A free pop-up store. Anyone can come. There is no application, no income check, and nothing to sign up for. Guests shop for clothing and jackets, and every household takes home a box with food, household items, and mental health resources. All items are available while supplies last.
Donate ItemsClothes, jackets, food, cleaning supplies, and personal care items.
VolunteerHelp sort, organize, welcome guests, and distribute goods.
SponsorSupport the event through a formal sponsorship or in-kind gift.
What We Do
Three things, one purpose.
Before we decide anything, we ask one question: What Would Cathy Do?
We give people what they need
Cathy's Closet turns giving into support. Clothing, household essentials, and food, offered with no application and no qualifying.
Learn MoreWe help with mental health
We connect people to mental health services in their own county and help them figure out who to call. The late Cathy Lance-Timmons spent her career making sure people were treated with respect.
Community WorkWe help students pay for school
We give scholarships to students studying behavioral health, including counseling, social work, and mental health care. These students will care for our neighbors in the years ahead.
ScholarshipsWhy It Matters
It's all connected.
When money is tight, it wears on you. When you're worn down, school and work get harder. That's why we do not treat community support, mental health, and education as three separate programs. They are one plan.
A lot of the people we serve are working full time. They make just enough that they do not qualify for assistance, but not enough to breathe. Most help out there requires you to prove you have hit bottom first. We do not ask anybody to do that.
Partner With Us
Here's how you can help.
We're a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit in good standing with the South Carolina Secretary of State. We run lean and volunteer-driven, so almost every dollar goes straight to the people we serve.
Sponsor a program.
Put your name behind the Cathy's Closet Community Store, a scholarship, or future well-being initiatives.
Donate goods.
Clothes, jackets, canned food, cleaning supplies, and personal care items, including unopened socks, underwear, and menstrual products.
Bring your people.
Put a donation bin in your office or church, or bring a group out to volunteer.
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Help us keep this going.
Your gift puts clothes on a family, gets somebody the mental health help they have been putting off, and helps a student pay for the college that leads to a career taking care of other people.
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