Welcome to the 2023 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 “CONTACT US” link on CharlestonGood.com
or via email anytime: charlestongood@gmail.com
#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- After 4-hour meeting, decisions delayed on 2 hot-button Charleston issues
- Labor struggles on Charleston’s waterfront rooted in history
- PETA Places Ads Touting Veganism on Charleston Pedicabs
- Federal funding cuts could upend South Carolina childcare system
- Protecting: The Preservation of Society works to protect African American gravesites
- Construx’s kits aim to tackle housing shortages and affordable housing
- A New way to keep dangers in the Charleston Harbor at bay
- P&C Editorial: The straight line from stand your ground to road rage killings
- Gullah Geechee Historic Preservation Project launches, community input wanted
- Community Resource Center to open as cooling center in North Charleston
- Local Organizations Announce First Conference on the State of South Carolina’s Criminal Justice System
- One80 Place launches eviction prevention line to support Charleston renters
- New Slate of S.C. Arts Commission Emerging Artists Announced
- Calling All Gullah/Geechee and Black Artists in South Carolina!
- APPLY NOW: SC Film Commission – PRODUCTION INDUSTRY HAIR STYLING workshop
- Women’s group donates over $66K
- CP View: Teach more civics, civil rights history
- Eileen Chepenik Retires After 19 Years at Trident Literacy
- Sullivan’s Island residents weigh in on controversial redevelopment
- APPLY NOW: 2023 MOJA Arts Festival Juried Art Exhibition
- CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS: 2024 SC Nonprofit Summit
- RESOURCE: Got Questions? Ask the Citizen Services Desk
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#SharingHub – Charleston Good just launched a new resource hub to facilitate more community connections and more sharing in 2023
Share more with our COMMUNITY SHARING HUB
#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events
- AUG 19: Girls Talk
- AUG 19: Building a Kindness Army – Author Talk
- AUG 19: Radcliffeborough Neighborhood Litter Sweep
- AUG 19: Laps for Love 2023
- AUG 20: West Ashley Bikeway Litter Sweep
- AUG 22: Online Seminar: Gardening to Support Pollinators, Birds, and Other Wildlife
- AUG 24: CONVERSATION: Transformative Teaching Collective x Mika Gadsden for Mayor
- AUG 26: Eastside Neighborhood Litter Sweep
- AUG 26: Lowcountry Summer Sendoff
For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR
#GoodStuff – interesting articles and resources from around the web
- The Death of the Neighborhood Grocery Store
- Philanthropy’s golden handcuffs: The illusion of liberation and the complex balance between self-preservation and complacency among foundation workers
- Nonprofit AF: Why I’m no longer donating to your no-good, very bad nonprofit
- New data: Global wealth rises, inequality falls
- Connecticut Has Done Something Remarkable With Crime
- Are we on the cusp of a breakthrough in endometriosis?
#CHSvolunteers
Check out our VOLUNTEER HUB
for local organizations actively seeking volunteers
#GoodGrants
Our NONPROFIT GRANTS HUB
features new grant opportunities as well as lots of grants resources
#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities
For local nonprofit job openings and resources,
check out our CHARLESTON NONPROFIT JOBS HUB
#GoodBooks – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Heather Cox Richardson (Author)
“A vibrant, and essential history of America’s unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It’s both a cause for hope, and a call to arms.”–Jane Mayer, author Dark Money
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