Welcome to the Changemakers Weekly Digest!
Charleston’s convenient source for the latest Lowcountry nonprofit & grassroots
news, perspectives, ideas, events, resources and more…
Please keep sharing your events, ideas and resources via the “CONNECT” link on CharlestonGood.com
or via email anytime: charlestongood@gmail.com
#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- Secured Hands With I Serve With Joy
- Group that owns Marion Square files lawsuit over removal of John C. Calhoun Statue
- Nurses at Charleston’s VA Hospital are frustrated over staffing and pay issues
- Charleston County Community Development to Host Community Events About Urban Entitlement Program
- North Charleston Dental Outreach to open new low-income dental clinic Tuesday
- Indian-American poet from Mount Pleasant releases book on ongoing witch hunting horrors
- Corp of Engineers request public to report whale sightings in SC
- Harvest Hope Food Bank Partners with Google.Org This Holiday Season To Help Deliver Meals to Neighbors in Need
- With rents unaffordable, the Charleston school district considers building teacher housing
- Charleston Friends of the Library Celebrates Forty Years
- CofC Biologist Uses Nature to Solve Human Problems
- N. Charleston to award 12 nonprofits to help end gun violence
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#GoodEvents – upcoming nonprofit events
- NOV 18: Thanksgiving Food Giveaway (downtown)
- NOV19: Kiawah Island Sweep
- NOV 19: Eastside Neighborhood Litter Sweep & Operation Neighborhood
- NOV 19: Jewels Of Epilepsy Gala
- NOV 19: The 3rd Annual Charleston Grand African Ball – The Royal Return!
- NOV 19: Holy Smokes BBQ Festival
- NOV 19: Harvest Potluck
- NOV 19-20: Black Food Truck Fall Festival
- NOV 20: West Ashley Greenway Litter Sweep
- DEC 1: Sierra Club Winter Picnic and Holiday Party!
- DEC 1: Community Constellations
- DEC 3: Second Annual Flippers & Fur Fest
- DEC 4: Charleston Audubon Oyster Roast
- DEC 8: The Color of Art Soiree
- DEC 8: Charleston Friends of the Library – Wando Branch Book Sale
- DEC 9: Charleston Hope’s 10 Year Celebration + Wrapping Night
- DEC 10: ECO Wedding Fashion Show (Postponed from NOV 10)
- DEC 13: GREEN DRINKS: Trees
For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR
#GoodStuff – interesting articles from around the web
- Why 21% of Tennessee’s Black Citizens Can’t Vote
- Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
- Mineral-rich countries want to form an OPEC for battery minerals
- How Black landowners in eastern North Carolina are recovering generational wealth
- Nine Paralysis Patients Walk Again Thanks to Newly Identified Neurons
- Voter intimidation in 2022 follows a long history of illegal, and racist, bullying
- Colorado Voters Approve Decriminalization of 5 Natural Psychedelics
- One of World’s Priciest Cities Turbocharges Affordable Housing
- These Rich Nations Are Finally Committing Cash to Climate Reparations. The US Isn’t Among Them
#CHSvolunteers – featured volunteer opportunities
- 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
- GriffinHarte Foundation – civil discourse projects
- Walmart – Community Grants
- National Endowment for Democracy – strengthening democratic institutions
- Rise Challenge – outstanding youth
- KidsGardening- 2023 Youth Garden Grants
- American Mathematical Society – Young Scholars program
- Simons Foundation – Flatiron Institute Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Advocacy (IDEA) Scholar program
- Temper of the Times Foundation – environmental advertising grants
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation – Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Grant Program
- NewSchools Venture Fund: Innovative Public Schools Funding
- COPIC Medical Foundation – Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality grants
- Power:Ed – Education and Workforce Development grants
- TD Green Space grants
#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
For more local nonprofit jobs information,
check out our CHARLESTON NONPROFIT JOBS HUB
#GoodResources – a grab-bag of useful stuff
- Turn90 Custom Screen-printing – local printing with a purpose
- 300+ Community Sharing ‘How to’ Guides
- SC Abortion Rights Resource Hub – a new collection of resources in support of women in SC
- Lowcountry Green Calendar – new collaborative niche calendar for local environmental events
#GoodBooks – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Pádraig Ó Tuama (Author)
“Pádraig Ó Tuama has been called to bring his illuminating insights into what some might consider encroaching darkness, and we are all the fortunate beneficiaries of his response. This book is a testament to the rare fineness of feeling and understanding that mark his brilliant work for the On Being Project.” –Lorna Goodison, former Poet Laureate of Jamaica
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