Changemakers Digest 2025 – NOVEMBER 10

#GoodBits- Featured Local Announcements & Resources

• STOP SC’s EXTREME ABORTION BAN: Say NO to S.323
• GET INVOLVED: CHS Immigrant Community Hotline
• FOOD RESOURCES for You, Your Family, and Community
• RECURSO: TELEMUNDO CHARLESTON
• FIND & CONTACT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• Foundation raises $330,000 in one day to support hungry Lowcountry families
• Shop Where You Live: Win Big While Supporting Local Businesses
• ICE operation in North Charleston raises racial profiling and community concerns
• The Page Turner: How Sarah Moriarty is helping transform the Holy City into a literary heavyweight
• New report shines light on challenges women, girls face in SC
• Lowcountry organizations teaming up to feed families amid government shutdown
• At Gilliard Farms, Food, Healing and Heritage Grow Together
• Inside YALLFest: How Books Become Bridges Between YA Readers
• ICYMI
  • GUEST COMMENTARY: A Nation of Immigrants
  • 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
  • 40+ volunteer opportunities in Charleston

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• NOV 7-16: Charleston Literary Festival
• NOV 9: Buy Local Block Party
• NOV 9: The (Mock) Trial of Dominion Energy
• NOV 9: Shuck Fest 2025
• NOV 10: Wake Up with Bill McKibben
• NOV 13: No Waste November Sip & Shop at Wake Refill (Green Drinks collab)
• NOV 13: 2nd Annual Farm-to-Planet: Sustainable Supper & Soirée
• NOV 18: Nonprofit Issues Forum (Columbia)
• NOV 19: 2025 John Winthrop Civic Forum

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

2025 REPORT
STATUS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS STATEWIDE

“The numbers in this report tell real stories about the barriers women and girls face every
day in South Carolina. They reveal obstacles that many of us know too well: gaps in
healthcare access, unequal pay for equal work, limited childcare, and entire communities
left without the resources they deserve. These truths are not always easy to hear, but
they are necessary to confront if we want to build something better.”

DOWNLOAD THE REPORT

growpurpose.com/greendrinks