Changemakers Weekly Digest – 2024 – #18

#GoodBits- Featured Announcements & Resources

• Building Science Principles Course
  May 13-17, 2024 | Virtual
  Fee: $25
  Register Here The SC Energy Office is offering the Building Professional Institute’s (BPI) Building Science Principles (BSP) course. This course provides comprehensive training in building science, energy efficiency, and construction fundamentals. In addition, it equips participants with a deep understanding of the principles governing the energy performance of residential buildings, encompassing both new and older structures.

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1.2 Million for BCDCOG
• Charleston Remembers Mary Bower’s fight for Equality as the Fight for Worker’s Rights in the Holy City is Renewed Sat. May 4
• Dragon Boat Charleston provides physical and mental wellbeing to cancer survivors around the Lowcountry
• She’s the Veteran’s 4th Annual Gala Celebration to Mark Women’s Veterans Day
• Lowcountry Food Bank conducts first Publix Charities-donated mobile pantry truck produce distribution in Charleston
• Why we need to pass the Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act
• Dominion to remove 519 palmettos on Sullivan’s Island
• Beloved Charleston attorney, preservationist Joseph H. “Peter” McGee dies
• Blue Sky Labs launches MUSC innovation district in Charleston
• Lowcountry Rapid Transit Receives $1.2 Million Attainable Housing Planning Grant
• Engaging Creative Minds, hosts 13th annual YEScarolina State Business Plan Competition
• CP View: Killing medical marijuana is reefer madness
• Charleston Writers Marcus Amaker and Harlan Greene to Be Inducted into S.C. Literary Hall of Fame
• SC’s Turn90 Awarded $2M to Expand Prison Reentry Model
• ICYMI
  • Charleston Moves Announces Mobility Month 2024
  • Crisis in the Carolinas: Racial Disparities, the Climate Catastrophe and Environmental Racism and in the Lowcountry
  • Project OKURASE Medical Clinic in Ghana open for summer volunteers!

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• MAY 8: North Charleston Business Expo 2024
• MAY 9: Charleston Green Drinks – “Climate Change & Resilience”
• MAY 9: ECO Runways: ENVIRONMENTALISM X ACTIVISM
• MAY 10-12: 53rd Annual Charleston Greek Festival
• MAY 11: World Migratory Bird Day Nurdle Count
• MAY 16-19: That BIG Book Sale
• MAY 17-19: Rally for Clean Water
• MAY 18: Going Places Gala 2024

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:

Boon Project for Young Adults Fighting Cancer
supports young adult cancer fighters and their unique needs, through providing beneficial programs and creating a cooperative cancer fighting culture that works to heal the whole patient.

#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
Karen Valby (Author)

“These Swans of Harlem performed for the Queen of England, Mick Jagger, and Stevie Wonder, on the same bill as Josephine Baker, at the White House, and beyond. But decades later there was almost no record of their groundbreaking history to be found. Out of a sisterhood that had grown even deeper with the years, these Swans joined forces again–to share their story with the world. Captivating, rich in vivid detail and character, and steeped in the glamour and grit of professional ballet, The Swans of Harlem is a riveting account of five extraordinarily accomplished women, a celebration of both their historic careers and the sustaining, grounding power of female friendship, and a window into the robust history of Black ballet, hidden for too long.”

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