Changemakers Weekly Digest – 2023 – #42

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• College Establishes Civil Discourse Initiative, Names Inaugural Director
• Tourism booms, but analysis shows shifts
• Free tuition to USC for top graduates of South Carolina high schools
• Trident Academy is a Founding Member of ALDS
• Community, school board members rally against Charleston Co. Board of Trustees
• Charleston County School superintendent withdraws proposal to leave district
• Six Charleston County schools receive library grants from Laura Bush Foundation
• Brack: Let’s hope the fix isn’t in on the First Congressional District
• Gibbes to Examine Queer Influence on Charleston Renaissance with Exhibit and Programming
• Charleston mayoral candidates share diverse strategies for handling riots in Charleston
• Charleston children’s museum to expand to upper Dorchester County
• Charleston celebrates groundbreaking for Hope Center: A beacon of support for the unhoused
• Charleston County considers affordable housing on Rivers Avenue, Morrison Drive properties
• Quarterly I am an MUSC Innovator Award winner recognized
• ‘They don’t have a voice’: Charleston group pushes for ban on animal tethering
• Charleston School of Law seeks non-profit status — here’s why
• North Charleston mayor’s race: Safety, jobs and housing
• Inside Charleston’s International African American Museum, An Institution Two Decades in the Making
• Moms for Liberty Chooses to Begin Charleston Book Banning Crusade on day the Earth Began in 4004 BC
• “Giving On Point” Fundraising Campaign Launched by Kids On Point
• Economics professor weighs in on rising rent in Charleston
• Charleston Wine + Food Announces 2024 Schedule Featuring 100+ Events
• Sixth Annual Ugly Sweater 5K Dash to Benefit Charleston Area Families Living with Alzheimer’s and Related Dementia
• The BEE Collective Announces Inaugural Just-Us INDABA: Birthing, Education, and Healing Justice Summit
• City of Charleston makes residents’ lives easier with new trash app
• SPEAK UP: Charleston County Climate Action Planning Questionnaire

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#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• OCT 23: City of Charleston Mayoral Candidate Forum (Historic Charleston Foundation)
• OCT 24: Believe in Possibility Banquet
• OCT 24: Business & Brews with Guest Speaker Andrew Wunderley
• OCT 25: LISTENING SESSION: Charleston Climate Action Plan
• OCT 25: Public Access Takeover – Northbridge Park
• OCT 25: Parl apré ça! – A Conversation on Créolité
• OCT 25: The Great Pumpkin Smash benefiting Habitat for Humanity
• OCT 26: Coastal Islands Ducks Unlimited 2023 Fall Banquet
• OCT 26: Water Mission ‘Walk for Water’ Open House
• OCT 26: Coastal Islands Ducks Unlimited 2023 Fall Banquet
• OCT 27: PreserVISIONist Soirée
• OCT 28: Masquerade Fur Ball Gala
• OCT 28: Shem Creek Community Cleanup
• OCT 28: Walk Like MADD Lowcountry

For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR

#GoodStuff – interesting articles and resources from around the web

• Nonprofit AF: Our sector’s role in calling for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine
• What Preceded the Killings in Israel and Gaza Was Not “Peace” — It Was Apartheid
• A Jewish Plea: Stand Up to Israel’s Act of Genocide
• Tell Congress: Stop fueling the Gaza genocide
• How American Democracy Fell So Far Behind
• Gullah-Geechee descendants are suing to fight zoning changes they say threaten their homes off coastal Georgia

LOWCOUNTRY #GrabBag – a rotating sampling of local resources

• • Trident United Way’s ALICE
  •  WATCH: 6 candidates make their pitch for Charleston mayor in The P&C’s forum
  • Charleston Women Podcast
  • REPORT: Charleston, South Carolina Buyout & Acquisition Program Homeowner Survey
  • P&C Rising Waters – Climate Stories of the South
  • Got Questions? Ask the City of Charleston Citizen Services Desk

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#GoodBooks – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop

The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
Sonia Shah (Author)

“The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet’s migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were historically porous.

But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by barbed wire, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, catapulting us into the highest reaches of the Himalayan mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, creating and disseminating the biological, cultural, and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migration is not the crisis–it is the solution. “

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