Changemakers Digest 2025 – JULY 14

#GoodBits- Featured Local Announcements & Resources

• RESOURCE: Lowcountry Heat Action Plan Toolkit
• FOOD RESOURCES for You, Your Family, and Community
• RECURSO: TELEMUNDO CHARLESTON
• FIND & CONTACT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• Housing gap challenges Charleston
• Charleston Ronald McDonald House construction to triple capacity
• Shem Creek bike lane project wrapping up after 9 years
• Reale: Stop science cuts to keep future from becoming more vulnerable 
• Will federal cuts leave South Carolina nonprofits scrambling to feed the hungry?
• Summer meal programs in Charleston help feed kids when class is out. Here’s how they work.
• OHM Radio 96.3 celebrates a decade of service
• Hundreds pedal across South Carolina to end Alzheimer’s disease
• ICYMI
  • We Are Family Opens Charleston’s First LGBTQ+ Community Center
  • Charleston activists call for weekly economic protest through ‘Fasting Fridays’
  • Food insecurity deepens in Charleston area
  • Social Justice Advocates File Federal Lawsuit Challenging City Protest Ordinance
  • SC rape and violence crisis centers face crisis of their own if federal funding goes away
  • ‘Urgent’ need for foster parents throughout South Carolina

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

beyond plastic ecochallenge
JULY 2025

SC7 Expedition
JULY 2025

• JUL 15: Effective Charity 101
• JUL 17: Cheers to Books & Beer
• JUL 18: Lowline Clean-Up Day
• JUL 19: Volunteer @ Fresh Future Farm
• JUL 19: Volunteer @ Fresh Future Farm
• JUL 26: Charleston Photography Expo 2025

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

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Individuals | Organizations

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#GoodGrabBag – miscellaneous good stuff worth sharing

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