Changemakers Digest 2025 – SEPTEMBER 29

#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

• Debate over free speech erupts after S.C. employees fired
• Group creates ‘workforce housing fund’ in effort to combat the area’s growing affordable housing crisis
• Charleston City Council approves first reading of MUSC zoning overlay
• CofC resets planning of new dormitory on Coming St.
• City turns vacant King Street storefront into a small business collective
• Ben’s Friends heads towards a decade of sobering help for food, beverage workers
• Multiple agencies, organizations in SC awarded more than $26M in grants
• CP View: Truth, justice and the American way
• 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-OCT 5: MOJA Arts Festival
• OCT 4: ECCO’s Grand Re-Opening & Ribbon Cutting
• OCT 4: SCELP’s 16th Annual Wild Side
• OCT 4: Family Day at the Aiken-Rhett House
• OCT 5: Latin American Festival
• OCT 8: Film Screening – The First Rainbow Coalition
• OCT 10-11: Riverfront Revival
• OCT 11: 7th Annual Pink Promenade Catwalk + Cocktails

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

ZERO-WASTE EVENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
November 9th for Land Trust Oyster Roast in Edisto, SC

We need YOU to help us achieve the zero waste event of our dreams! Edisto Island Open Land Trust is hosting their Annual Oyster Roast on November 9th, and we’re looking for volunteers to assist our zero waste event team. We set the bar pretty high for ourselves last year, diverting 98.4% of the waste from going to the landfill and producing only 8.5 lbs of trash from hundreds of people. Help us beat that number at this year’s event and support important conservation efforts while you’re at it.

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