Welcome to the 2023 Changemakers Weekly Digest!
Charleston’s convenient source for the latest Lowcountry nonprofit & grassroots
news, perspectives, ideas, events, resources and more…
Please keep sharing your events, ideas and resources via the “CONTACT US” link on CharlestonGood.com
or via email anytime: charlestongood@gmail.com
#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- APPLY NOW: 2023 MOJA Arts Festival Juried Art Exhibition
- Call Me MISTER Students Get Head Start on Teaching Through New Kids on Point Partnership
- It’s time to make King and other downtown streets safer to walk, bike
- Local Charleston Artist Deane V. Bowers raises over $32K for Mental Wellness Care for Nurses
- Local Nonprofit We Are Family Offers Programming for Youth Ages 10 and Under
- SEL4SC Hosting Screenings of Screenagers Films
- Charleston County Student Leaders Partner with IAAM and Charleston Promise Neighborhood
- Charleston takes high-tech approach to managing old-fashioned tourist attraction
- ‘Can’t lose our history’: Exhibit honors Black, immigrant legacy of Charleston street
- IAAM to Host “When it Rains, It Shines” Exhibit from SC Artist Fletcher Williams III
- Communities of color are disproportionately impacted by climate change
- I Serve With Joy Announces “Back 2 School With Joy” Drive
- FREE Back to School Clothing Swap Hosted by Local Nonprofit We Are Family – August 27
- Pixie Paula Dezzutti, owner of Charleston’s first distillery since prohibition, is recognized as dynamic female leader
- Lowcountry communities get involved in local preservation project
- Charleston Musicians Join Forces to Support Conservation
- Lowcountry Food Bank Celebrates 40 Years of Fighting Hunger in Coastal SC
- Trident United Way Announces Community Changemaker Grants
- Free meals for all K-12 students? SC lawmakers studying cost, collaborations
- CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS: 2024 SC Nonprofit Summit
- RESOURCE: Got Questions? Ask the Citizen Services Desk
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#SharingHub – Charleston Good just launched a new resource hub to facilitate more community connections and more sharing in 2023
Share more with our COMMUNITY SHARING HUB
#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events
- AUG 15: Charleston Green Drinks: “Water”
- AUG 16: Art of Jazz: Manny Houston
- AUG 18: Beer From Here , After Hours at the Aquarium
- AUG 18: Drinks for Dolphins: Tideland Brewing
- AUG 19: Girls Talk
- AUG 19: Building a Kindness Army – Author Talk
- AUG 19: Radcliffeborough Neighborhood Litter Sweep
- AUG 19: Laps for Love 2023
- AUG 20: West Ashley Bikeway Litter Sweep
- AUG 22: Online Seminar: Gardening to Support Pollinators, Birds, and Other Wildlife
For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR
#GoodStuff – interesting articles and resources from around the web
- Corporate Greed is a Moral Crisis. Working People Are Fighting Back.
- Social media can in fact be made better: Research shows it is possible to reward users for sharing accurate information instead of misinformation
- Could We End Wealth?
- Clarence Thomas Created a Confusing New Rule That’s Gutting Gun Laws
- Blood Money: How America’s Biggest Charities Are Bankrolling Hate Groups Without Anyone Noticing
- Who’s Afraid of Social Contagion?
#CHSvolunteers
Check out our VOLUNTEER HUB
for local organizations actively seeking volunteers
#GoodGrants
Our NONPROFIT GRANTS HUB
features new grant opportunities as well as lots of grants resources
#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities
For local nonprofit job openings and resources,
check out our CHARLESTON NONPROFIT JOBS HUB
#GoodBooks – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Dipo Faloyin (Author)
“This book is hilarious, ferocious, generous, and convincing. It made me reconsider almost everything I thought I knew about Africa, which is somewhere we often hear about, but far too rarely hear from.”–Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
Shopping for Books?
You can support Charleston Good & local bookstores by shopping via our store at BookShop.org
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