Changemakers Digest 2025 – JANUARY 27

#GoodBits- Featured Announcements & Resources

• Ohm Radio is”offering singing telegram deliveries this Valentine’s Day for the seventh year in a row” Order yours today!
• RESOURCE: The VITA Program Free Tax Preperation
• Be Kind Charleston is seeking kindhearted Charlestonians to write encouraging cards for nursing home recipients and nonprofits in our community. This is a way to serve from home and great for families.
• PLATFORM: Engage Charleston County
• RESOURCE: SC Coastal Atlas

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• State Funding Awarded to Palmetto Hope Network to Launch “Haven of Hope SC Navigational Center”
• Call for WGS Community Leader in Residence
• Lunar New Year Market celebrates Asian-owned biz
• Charleston non-profit executive named CEO of national Land Trust Alliance
• A Charleston-grown art series ‘dreams a reality that doesn’t exist right now’ for Black creatives
• ICYMI
  • SC arts organizations led by people of color can apply for grants from $1M funding pool (deadline 2-5-25)
  • ‘Urgent’ need for foster parents throughout South Carolina
  • Black Residents Say No To Climate Gentrification in Charleston
  • Lowcountry Local First Asks Community to Shift Dollars to Local this Holiday Season
  • N. Charleston group hopes to build bridge between Hispanic communities, city: ‘We are people’
  • In the Tri-County, the “Survival Budget” for a Family of Four Increased by Over 25% from 2021 to 2022

For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• JAN 28: W.A.V.E. Workshop – Commercial Businesses
• JAN 29: Empowering Survivors 2025
• FEB 1: Francis Marion National Forest Cleanup
• FEB 2: Shucked & Sauced
• FEB 2: 5000 BLACK: Afro-Futurist Art Exhibition Series Concert Finale
• FEB 2: The Mushroom Gathering: Sunday Supper
• FEB 4: Carolinas Transit Equity Online Conference – Charleston Live Participation
• FEB 5-8: 2025 Colour of Music Festival: Black History Month Concert Series
• FEB 6: Advancing Justice40: Leveraging Climate & Energy Post-Biden-Harris
• FEB 8: BEYOND TIME: An All African American Exhibition (ARTIST TALK)
• FEB 8: Cupid’s Chase 5K Charleston

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

FEATURED RESOURCE HUBS AT CHARLESTONGOOD.COM…

#CHSvolunteers – local organizations actively seeking volunteers
#GoodGrants – new grant opportunities and other grants resources
#GoodJobs – nonprofit job openings + other local employment resources
#GrassrootsGuide – our directory of 640+ local nonprofit organizations in the Lowcountry

additional resources for
Individuals | Organizations

GRASSROOTS GUIDE NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT:

Poor People’s Campaign – SC
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is uniting people across South Carolina to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted morality of religious nationalism.

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