The University of South Carolina Upstate. Home of the Spartan Army. A U.S. News & World Report's Best College & Great College to Work For. #ReachGreaterHeights USC Upstate is uniquely positioned to create transformative opportunities through higher education. Home of the Spartan Army. A U.S. News & World Report's Best College & a 2024 Great College to Work For. #USCUpstate #ReachGreaterHeights 💚 The mission of the USC Upstate Foundation is to support the University of South Carolina Upstate in all of its educational, research, instructional, scientific, literary, service, charitable and outreach endeavors. Chartered in 1973 as the Carolina Piedmont Foundation, and renamed in 2009, the USC Upstate Foundation exists to seek and accept gifts of charitable, benevolent, cultural and educational purposes for the exclusive benefit of the University. Accredited as a non-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, the Foundation has raised or otherwise administered contributions, grants, bond funds, and endowments for capital construction, laboratory, scholarship and endowment purposes. University facilities made possible in whole or part by the Foundation