Welcome to the 2024 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
#GoodBits- Featured Announcements
- Trident United Way wants your input: Shaping Our Future Tri-County Community Survey
- Submit your Charleston-area LGBTQ-owned business to be included in a forthcoming LGBTQ+ Business Directory.
#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- CP View: Charleston school board should have won anti-transparency recognition
- Summerville introduces hate intimidation ordinance
- BIG STORY: Committee to mull anti-vax measure March 14
- Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead in Charleston
- Charleston mayor launches flood plan to prepare for the average storm
- Union Pier’s storied history at center of design process, project leaders say
- Coastal Community Foundation Announces Vice President of Grantmaking and Community Leadership
- South Carolina Is 2024’s 9th Most Federally Dependent State – WalletHub Study
- Dorchester County partners with Lowcountry nonprofit to support first responders
- South Carolina leads the nation in preschool suspensions
- North Charleston residents speak out against potential Sea Fox boat plant and park
- Charleston officials working on accessibility options within city boundaries
- North Charleston’s first African American mayor leans on lessons in faith and sacrifice
- The name game: An inside look at the debate surrounding new Johns Island school name
- Ravenel Town Council holds workshop to get answers on controversial rezone
- South Carolina-wide Riley Institute award will go to reentry program for former inmates
- Charleston County Selected for County Juvenile Justice Innovation Network
- Nonprofit Notes on Permitless Carry in SC
- Attainable housing project proposed for Mount Pleasant. Who will be able to live there?
- New funding option could give Charleston Co. schools more resources
- Standing Together: Protesting working conditions, the Hospital Workers’ Movement began 55 years ago this March
- Brack: State seems to be turning backwards
- N. Charleston argues plans for former Baker Hospital site, fate in council hands
- How to Support We Are Family’s Trans Love Fund on Transgender Day of Visibility
- Bookstore bar Philosophers & Fools now open on Bogard Street
- Mt. Pleasant, Wakeup Carolina partnership sees decrease in overdoses
- Sustain SC Welcomes New CEO Leslie Skardon
- New project could help MUSC visitors, employees navigate often-flooded campus
- North Charleston students fuse culture, cuisine to better understand world views
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events
- MAR 19: Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land’ Film Screening
- MAR 22: A Campfire Conversation: Black Voices Who Built America
- MAR 23: Sleeping with the Ancestors: Coffee & Conversation
- MAR 23: Walk for Water 2024
- MAR 23: LOR Fulfilling Needs Creating Hope Gala
- MAR 23: Rainbow Market 5th Anniversary!
- MAR 23: Mount Pleasant ArtFest
- MAR 24: Latin Taste of Charleston
- MAR 24: IAGC Spring Picnic & Festival of Colors (Holi) 2024
- MAR 24: Pet Helpers – Oyster Roast 2024
- MAR 26: Environmental Justice Profile Showcasing
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
GRASSROOTS GUIDE NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT:
Dress for Success Charleston County
“empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.”
#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
Girlhood
Melissa Febos (Author)
“Anyone who has ever been a girl or a woman will recognize the patterns Febos uncovers: the unwanted touch, the expectations of our bodies, the way we become complicit in the traps laid out for us along the way by the patriarchal structures that govern so many of our social, professional, and interpersonal spheres . . . By following Febos’ distinct paths between the past and present, we might realize there’s room to forge our own, and that we’ve just been handed a flashlight that helps illuminate the way.” –NPR, “Books We Love”
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