Changemakers Digest 2025 – SEPTEMBER 22

#GoodBits- Featured Local Announcements & Resources

• 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

• New app launches for Lowcountry community in recovery
• The Art Lover: Rich lands at Gibbes as new director
• Charleston Habitat for Humanity hosts First Build with Pride event
• CP View: Don’t use a tragedy to erode freedom
• Charleston pro-Palestine organizer wins not guilty verdict
• Charleston seeking input on historic preservation of African American heritage
• Proposed dorm on cemetery site sparks spirited community debate
• Charleston County School District launches High-Intensity Tutoring program
• 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
  • 40+ volunteer opportunities in Charleston

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

SEP 25-28: HOPE SUMMIT 2025

• SEP 24: ‘The Cigarette Surfboard’ Documentary (free screening)
• SEP 25-28: HOPE SUMMIT 2025
• SEP 25-OCT 5: MOJA Arts Festival
• SEP 27: SC Native Plant Society Fall Native Plant Market
• OCT 4: ECCO’s Grand Re-Opening & Ribbon Cutting
• OCT 4: SCELP’s 16th Annual Wild Side
• OCT 5: Latin American Festival

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

NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN!

ROBERT BALLARD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN VOLUNTEER SERVICE

Know a committed volunteer who lives in Charleston?
Nominate them for the City of Charleston’s annual volunteerism award.

NOMINATE A VOLUNTEER!

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