Changemakers Weekly Digest – 2024 – #15

#GoodBits- Featured Announcements & Resources

• CCC Launches new online portal to make community data more accessible and empowering: Environmental Justice Community Profile
• National parks will be offering free admission April 20
• Superhero Charity Looking for Volunteers – Critical Care Comics is launching a Branch in CHS
• CHS Peninsula Plan – Not too late for feedback!

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic to Host 17th Annual Golf Invitational Fundraiser
• Bailey: Cogswell offers the homeless a hand, a bus ticket or a jail cell
• IAAM launches groundbreaking genealogy resources at Center for Family History
• CARTA driver honored by City of Charleston for longtime service
• The Poetry Society of South Carolina Announces Major Shift
• SC Public Radio and College of Charleston Create A Moment
• Tracing Charleston’s History of Slavery, From a Burial Ground to a DNA Swab
• Charleston City leaders discuss King Street BID and approve rideshare pilot program
• City of Charleston is ‘Setting New Standards’ with a code rewrite
• Empowering Diversity: Be the Change Charleston’s Impactful Journey
• IAAM offered different kind of college spring break
• Trident United Way and Transformation Table Lowcountry Announce New Partnership
• Mount Pleasant nonprofit to break ground on $5 million renovation
• Missing Mosquito Beach sign is on its way home
• Community forum addresses the pitfalls of domestic violence in South Carolina
• Basketmaker sews other cultures into sweetgrass tradition
• Derelict sailboat removed from Sullivan’s Island beach
• Program helps Lowcountry girls learn, embrace Gullah Geechee heritage

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• APR 15: 6th annual Feminism in Motion
• APR 17: MUSC The Greenest Day: An Earth and Arbor Day Celebration
• APR 17: TEDxCharleston 2024
• APR 18: CLA 8th Anniversary Celebration
• APR 18: Shifa Free Clinic Flavors of Healing Fundraiser
• APR 18: KICKED OUT: Virtual Town Hall presented by BEE Collective
• APR 18-21: Charleston Jazz Festival
• APR 20: Charleston Queer Youth Prom 2024
• APR 20: Walk & Roll
• APR 20: March for Babies Charleston
• APR 21: Stride the Wave: Warrior Surf Foundation 5k
• APR 21: A Wagener Terrace Garden Tour of Native Plants
• APR 22-28: Lowcountry Earth Week

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:

Uplift Charleston
“committed to uplifting Charleston, SC and will strive to help the homeless and those in need by providing donations from our communities.”

#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop

The Day the World Stops Shopping:
How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
J. B. MacKinnon (Author)

“Drawing from experts in fields ranging from climate change to economics, MacKinnon investigates how living with less would change our planet, our society, and ourselves. Along the way, he reveals just how much we stand to gain: An investment in our physical and emotional wellness. The pleasure of caring for our possessions. Closer relationships with our natural world and one another. Imaginative and inspiring, The Day the World Stops Shopping will embolden you to envision another way.”

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