Welcome to the Changemakers Weekly Digest!
Charleston’s convenient source for the latest Lowcountry nonprofit & grassroots
news, perspectives, ideas, events, resources and more…
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#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- YWCA Greater Charleston’s LaVanda Brown forges ahead with anti-racism work
- Camp Happy Days Moves to a New Home
- After Charleston loses large federal grant for Lowline park, city applies for design funds
- The Sidelining the Lowline Reopens Hope for Real Transit into the heart of Charleston.
- Charleston County Residents Asked to Fill Out “Housing our Future Survey”
- CARTA, TriCounty Link Announce New Mobile Ticketing Option
- 2022 North Charleston Arts Fest Seeking Entries
- North Charleston Pops! Announces 2022-2023
- SC Aquarium Released Ten Rehabilitated Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles Into the Atlantic Ocean
- If We Build It Will They Come
- City Paper/ Our View: Stop discriminating against transgender students
- Charleston continues efforts to combat homelessness, advocate says more leadership is needed
- Preservation Society of Charleston will Honor National Preservation Month This May with Lineup of Diverse Tours and Events
- Two local businesses help the Credit One Charleston Open achieve sustainability
- The 20/20 League Kicks Off 2022 Youth Basketball Season
- We Are Family (WAF) is excited to host South Carolina’s only Adult Queer Prom
- Comedy Show at Striped Pig Distillery Raises Nearly $40,000 for Tri-County Veterans Support Network
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#GoodEvents – upcoming nonprofit events
CofC Sustainability Week 2022
April 18-22
James Campbell Learning Circle #Back2Basics Series
FEB 28-APR 25 (bi-weekly)
Young Contemporaries 2022
Halsey’s 37th annual juried student exhibition
MAR 1- APR 23
- APR 18-24: Charleston Cocktail Week
- APR 19: Engaged and Well: A Conversation About Education (virtual)
- APR 20: Master Cocktail Class
- APR 21: 1st Annual Turn the Tides
- APR 21: Farm-to-Table(aux)® ‘Lowcountry Life’
- APR 21: An Earth Day Dialogue: Sustainability and Flourishing in the 21st Century (hybrid)
- APR 23: Tour De Earth Day
- APR 23: Dolphin Count
- APR 23: Doughnut Dash 5k
- APR 23: Community Litter Sweep at Gadsden Creek
- APR 23-24: Black Food Truck Festival
- APR 24: Thrive Hive Screening of Together We Grow
- APR 24: Farewell Sendoff for Dr. Lavender
- APR 24: A Gown Affair
- APR 26: Living Your Truth – Conversations in Courage (virtual)
- APR 30: In the Moment with Ohm Radio & Amor Healing Kitchen
- MAY 1-31: Mobility Month with Charleston Moves
For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR
#GoodStuff – interesting articles from around the web
- Nissan, NASA teaming on “game changing” electric vehicle batteries so stable they could be used in pacemakers, Nissan says
- Ecuador’s High Court Rules That Wild Animals Have Legal Rights
- Low-Income Students Need More Than a Good Education
- Nonprofit AF: The way we manage conflicts needs to take neurodiversity into consideration
- How Intense Citizen Oversight Reshaped Oakland Police
- Why light pollution is a solvable environmental crisis
#CHSvolunteers – featured volunteer opportunities
- FEATURED:
- 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
- Spencer Foundation racial equity conference grants
- Posner Foundation reducing food waste grants
- Environmental Research & Education Foundation waste management grants
- Milton & Phyllis Berg Family Respite Care Grants
- Webb Family Foundation
- Sony Corporation of America
- Walmart Foundation Community Grant Program
- Publix Super Markets Charities Hunger Relief Program
- Wells Fargo Foundation grants
- SC Johnson grants
- CSX Community Service Grant
- Eastman Foundation grants
- PNC Foundation grants
- LOCAL:
#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities
- FEATURED:
- SCACED: Job Board
- 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
- Black Oak Collective – a community of Black professionals and advocates across environmental fields
- World Changing Ideas Podcast – innovations and ideas with a focus on companies
- Lowcountry Green Guide – newly launched local environmental organizations and businesses directory
#GoodBooks – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Grace Lee Boggs (Author) Scott Kurashige (Author) - Bright Green Future: How Everyday Heroes Are Re-Imagining the Way We Feed, Power, and Build Our World
Gregory Schwartz (Author) Trevor Decker Cohen (Author) - The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
J. B. MacKinnon (Author) - They Knew: The Us Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis
James Gustave Speth (Author) Julia Olson (Introduction by) & 1 more - A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
Vanessa Nakate (Author)
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