Changemakers Weekly Digest – 2024 – #13

#GoodBits- Featured Announcements & Resources

• SUBMIT COMMENTS: The harm of the I-526 Extension
• PETITION: The ‘SAFE & JUST COMMUNITY” Campaign

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• Local group holding talks on preschool suspensions
• Brack: Lame-brained voucher program puts public schools at risk
• Residents and local leaders in West Ashley address homelessness in the area
• SC House GOP passes bill banning DEI in college hiring, firing and admission
• CP View: A new way to give democracy a boost
• Charleston utilizes survey for enhancing early childcare
• I-526 widening project director reveals results of environmental impact study
• In boost for ports, Don Holt Bridge linking North Charleston, Mount Pleasant to be replaced
• Warrior Surf Foundation Hosting Cocktails for a Cause
• North Charleston celebrates the Grand Opening of New Sports Complex
• Conversations surround naming of new Johns Island Elementary School
• Energy bill riles critics, raises ominous specter
• Northern pitchfork opens on Johns Island to alleviate traffic on Maybank Highway, River Road
• Disputed Lowcountry congressional map will be used in 2024 election: Federal court

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• APR 7: Toby’s Island-wide Spring Sweep 2024
• APR 9: WSF Cocktails for a Cause
• APR 11: Charleaston Green Drinks – “Environmental Justice”
• APR 12: 2024 ‘Reclaim Community’ Gala
• APR 13: 2024 Charleston Honey and Bee Expo
• APR 13: Alchemy Art Show
• APR 13: Lowcountry K-POP Spring Fling
• APR 13-14: Ride the Lowcountry
• APR 13-14: Meals on Wheels of Summerville Inaugural Pickleball Tournament
• APR 14: 4th Annual Tour de Earth Day

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:

Shifa Clinic 
“provides a variety of support services to alleviate the effects of socioeconomic disadvantages on the health and social well-being of the underserved”

#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop

Woman, Life, Freedom
Marjane Satrapi (Author) Una Dimitrijevic (Translator)

“The author of Persepolis returns with a collection about burgeoning activism in Iran. In September 2022, the beating and death of Mahsa Jina Amini, an Iranian student arrested for not wearing her headscarf properly, incited a solidarity movement among women and men that spread around the world. To publicize and bear witness to this major uprising, Satrapi has gathered stories, cartoons, and essays from more than 20 artists, activists, journalists, and academics. The author has two aims: “to explain what’s going on in Iran, to decipher events in all their complexity and nuance for a non-Iranian readership, and to help you understand them as fully as possible”; and “to remind Iranians that they are not alone” […] An impassioned message of rage and hope.” — Kirkus

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