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#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- Charleston Literary Festival Returns with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Authors and More
- ‘Regenerative agriculture’ could positively impact climate change, local farmers say
- Black people are about to be swept aside for a South Carolina freeway — again
- Michelle Mapp believes in public service
- Redux Presents “Maintenance of Way” Opening on 9/17
- Black mortgage applicants in Charleston denied twice as often as White borrowers
- Tragedy, coexistence frame SC’s politics, economics
- Fetter Health Care Network to Host Mobile COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Clinics Throughout Lowcountry
- City of Charleston Fall Recreation Guide now available online
#GoodEvents – upcoming nonprofit events
SEP 15 – OCT 15: Hispanic Heritage Month Events
- SEP 15: Braggin’ Rights Bash
- SEP 18: BeachSweep/River Sweep & National Estuaries Day!
- SEP 19: Walk to Fight Hunger
- SEP 19: Lowcountry Bald
- SEP 21: PechaKucha 37
- SEP 22: The Green Tie Awards (virtual)
- SEP 22: Free SCORE webinar: Are You Ready to Start a Business?o
- SEP 27: Live, LAF, Love Golf Tournament
- SEP 30-OCT 2: 2021 Slave Dwelling Project Virtual Conference
- OCT 2: Carolina Children’s Charity Annual Care-Give-Run
- OCT 3: Evening of Remembrance at McLeod Plantation Historic SIte
- OCT 6-7: YES! Fest: A Better World Rising (virtual)
- OCT 9: Bea Strong Fundraiser
- OCT 9: Charleston Beer Fest
- OCT 9: NAMI Walks Charleston
- OCT 16: Walk to End Alzheimers
- OCT 17: 5th Annual Hike for Mike
- OCT 29: Party for the Parks
- OCT 30: LUNG FORCE Run/Walk 5K
- OCT 30: HALOS Kinship Caregivers Conference
- NOV 6: Revel on the River
- NOV 19: Festival of Trees/Sparkles & Spirits’ Gala
- DEC 3: Art for Good: Auction & Music
- DEC 18: Spot Light Awards
#GoodStuff – articles from around the web
- Building Community by Buying Nothing
- Democratic Leaders Are Betraying Black Voters
- Kansas City’s getting one major thing right with homeless people: listening to them
- Women’s college enrollment gains leave men behind
- The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once
- How to Prevent Crime Without Relying on Police
- This stark visualization proves it: You should be making a lot more money
- Wild rice sues to stop oil pipeline
- #byefacebook: Facebook’s AI Seems to Have a Racism Problem
#CHSvolunteers – featured volunteer opportunities
- Cooper River Bridge Run
- Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry
- Volunteer Coaches needed in all sports for the City of North Charleston
- Unified Sports Program seeks volunteers
- Volunteer with YWCA’s Y Girls Code Club
- Charleston Waterkeeper Volunteer Calendar
- Upcoming Charleston Surfrider volunteer opportunities
- Green Heart Project Volunteer Calendar
- Be a Mentor with Lowcountry Youth Services
- Volunteer at Fresh Future Farm
Check out our Grassroots Guide for more local organizations actively seeking volunteers
#GoodFundingFriday – featured grant opportunities
- SCORE’S Minority and Women’s Small Business Initiative
- Unitarian Universalist Association: Fund for a Just Society
- Fund for Wild Nature
- Karma for Car Foundation youth empowerment grants
- Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Social & Environmental Justice Projects
- Toshiba America Foundation K-5 Teacher Grants
- Center for Craft Artist Fellowship
- Papoose Conservation Wildlife Foundation: Children in Nature & Applied Conservation grants
- Herb Society classroom garden grants
#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities
- FEATURED JOB: Palmetto CAP: Outreach Field Specialist
- Together SC: Lowcountry Nonprofit Jobs
- Linkedin: Charleston Nonprofit Jobs
- Indeed: Nonprofit jobs in Charleston SC
- SimplyHired: Nonprofit Jobs in Charleston SC
#GoodResources – a grab-bag of useful stuff
- The Mother Jones Podcast
- Braver Angels – bringing Reds, Blues and Others Together To Talk, Listen, and Understand
- Harvard’s Justice Course – a free course series on “What’s the Right Thing to Do?”
- Poverty Lawgorithms – A Poverty Lawyer’s Guide to Fighting Automated Decision-Making Harms on Low-Income Communities
- Daylight – modern banking for the LGBT+ community
#GoodBooks – Newly featured: Children’s Books
- Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Oliver Jeffers (Author) - Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
Tony Hillery (Author) Jessie Hartland (Illustrator) - Milo Imagines the World
Matt de la Peña (Author) Christian Robinson (Illustrator) - Avocado Asks
Momoko Abe (Author)
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