Changemakers Weekly Digest – 2024 – #17

#GoodBits- Featured Announcements & Resources

• SIGN THE PETITION > FUND THE COMMUNITY: Support a People’s Budget in Charleston!
• Here’s your guide to the Charleston County Public Library
• LIST: Lowcountry Farmers’ Markets & CSAs

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive
• Project OKURASE Medical Clinic in Ghana open for summer volunteers!
• Local advocacy group launches pilot nutritional program for perinatal families
• Postpartum Support Charleston Announces New Support Group for Pregnancy & Infant Loss
• New rental homes by nonprofit may be the silver lining in Chicora-area housing crisis
• Crisis in the Carolinas: Racial Disparities, the Climate Catastrophe and Environmental Racism and in the Lowcountry
• Black Food Truck Festival celebrates Black-owned businesses
• Going Places Announces 4th Annual Gala
• Union win in Tennessee has some hoping for a change in South Carolina
• International African American Museum to host World Premier of Traveling Exhibition
• Residents of historic Black neighborhood hope restoration effort can save their salt marsh

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• MAY 2: Erin Donomeyer: PFAS and the Black River Watershed
• MAY 4: May the Fish Be with Youth Fishing Rodeo at Colonial Lake
• MAY 4: Bright Ideas 5k
• MAY 8: North Charleston Business Expo 2024
• MAY 9: Charleston Green Drinks – “Climate Change & Resilience”
• MAY 9: ECO Runways: ENVIRONMENTALISM X ACTIVISM

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:

South Carolina Black Farmer Coalition
“We work to train, equip, and support existing, returning, and budding generations of Black farmers. We need Black-led training programs, land trusts, food hubs, policy advocates and funders to get the job done.”

#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop

The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Dana Mattioli (Author)

“In The Everything War, the journalist Dana Mattioli shows us at length that Bezos’s legacy is far more insidious than we ever suspected….At this point, continuing to defend Amazon’s business practices with the argument of low prices, even when such toxicity extends to a soul-crushing work culture, has turned into a feel-good illusion that corporate America keeps telling itself about the monster it has created. But as with all illusions, at some point, reality hits. This book is exactly the dose of reality Americans need to imagine a world without Amazon, which already costs us so much to feed.”
–Karina Montoya, Washington Monthly

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