Welcome to the 2024 Changemakers Weekly Digest!
Charleston’s convenient source for the latest Lowcountry nonprofit & grassroots news, perspectives, ideas, events, resources and more…
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#GoodBits- Featured Announcements & Resources
- JOIN AFFA IN THE PRIDE PARADE
AFFA will have a float in this year’s Charleston Pride Parade on June 1, 2024, at 9:00am, in downtown Charleston. Would you like to join us? The more the merrier and it’s going to be a wonderful celebration of our community that you won’t want to miss! Along with our float, participants will also have the option to walk the approximately 1 mile parade route. We will have a limited number of AFFA “Vote with Pride” t-shirts available on a first-come first-serve basis for those who register to join us in the parade. Register now!
#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- WREN Releases Statement After SC Senate Votes to Ban Healthcare for Trans Youth
- Florida abortion ban has big impacts in S.C., Southeast
- Charleston Hope seeks to raise $50,000 for mental health programs
- Charleston museum receives $1M grant from The Duke Endowment
- Sidney Frazier, 50 years at Middleton Place, is at the heart of the operation
- Charleston community members voice concerns about future restaurant parking plan
- Charleston-based organization helping residents find affordable housing
- City of Charleston Celebrates Completion of its Latest Affordable Housing Project
- Million-dollar trail project could be coming to Mount Pleasant
- Board of Charleston’s IAAM names its next leader
- Local Culinary Social Media Club Tops $65k in Donations to Charleston Nonprofits
- Charleston Co. to open discussion for Rutledge Tomb preservation
- Bill could soon lead to statue honoring Smalls
- Facts or fictions? SC lawmakers pass teen’s trans restrictions regardless of answers
- North Charleston council passes hate crime ordinance
- “Singers & Stanzas” brings together poets and musicians
- CARTA offering free rides to the beach all summer
- The FAA investigates after Boeing says workers in South Carolina falsified 787 inspection records
- ICYMI
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events
- MAY 15 & 17: Racial Healing & Transformation Facilitator Training (VIRTUAL)
- MAY 16-19: That BIG Book Sale
- MAY 17: WSF Charity Golf Classic
- MAY 17: Creative Mornings CHS: Maria Kelly, Amor Healing Kitchen
- MAY 17-19: Rally for Clean Water
- MAY 18: Going Places Gala 2024
- MAY 18: Gullah Gala Fashion & Music Experience
- MAY 18: Blockade of Charleston Festival
- MAY 18: Festival of Everything Plants
- MAY 20: BIFMC’S 17th Annual Golf Invitational
- MAY 20-22: SC7 Resiliency Conference
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:
ConNECKted Too | Tiny is Powerful
an “arts organization still rejecting traditional, extractive, exclusionary, racist, hierarchal systems and operations while pushing for expansive definitions of art, artists and their functions.”
#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder (Author) Nora Krug (Illustrator)
“Timothy Snyder is brilliant. On Tyranny is a must read, a clear-eyed guidebook for anyone seeking to learn from history to help us understand the present. It is a manual for how to protect and preserve Democracy. The past teaches us that we, as individuals, must act to reaffirm and protect the freedoms and institutions that we collectively cherish. Listen, learn, be kind and courageous. This stunning new edition beautifully illustrated by Nora Krug makes the lessons jump off the page, into our hearts, filling us with the urgent imperative: act now, before it is too late.”–Ken Burns
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