Changemakers Digest 2025 – SEPTEMBER 1

#GoodBits- Featured Local Announcements & Resources

• GET INVOLVED: CHS Immigrant Community Hotline
• RESOURCE: Charleston County Comprehensive Plan Interactive Summary
• 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

• Planned Parenthood files legal challenge to protect Medicaid funding in South Carolina
• Charleston-area women’s voting organization discusses future of mail-in voting
• New North Charleston mural festival is Sept. 11-14
• How rising prices are impacting residents and businesses in Charleston
• Deadly consequences: Is Charleston’s legal system failing domestic violence victims?
• ‘A safe place to be you’: New safe house opens for abuse victims
• A justice on justice: Jackson set for talk on Sept. 2 in Charleston
• ICYMI
  • INTERVIEW: Fighting For Justice: Focusing on Immigration
  • 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 | Hunger still haunts S.C., generations later
  • Social Justice Advocates File Federal Lawsuit Challenging City Protest Ordinance
  • ‘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

• SEP 1: MAY DAY STRONG
• SEP 4: Sierra Club presents: Secrets of Shark Teeth and Fossils
• SEP 9: Nature at Work: Lowcountry Launch & Learn
• SEP 10: Lifelong Learning Global Discovery: An Evening With Anna Cummins
• SEP 11: Jammin’ for Justice Benefiting Charleston Pro Bono
• SEP 13: Smashing Hunger Pickleball Tournament
• SEP 13: Parks For Pollinators BioBlitz in Hampton Park
• SEP 13: 2025 MELT Mural Fest

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

#GoodGrabBag – miscellaneous good stuff worth sharing

NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT

growpurpose.com/greendrinks