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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or via email anytime: charlestongood@gmail.com
#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- Charleston’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade happening Jan. 15
- International African American Museum Welcomes Students and Educators for Educational Field Trips
- MLK Community Giveback Day in North Charleston
- CP View: 5 ways to make progress in 2024 on Charleston Checklist
- Johns Island affordable housing project lines up its financing
- Pro-Palestinian protestors speak out against President Biden in Charleston
- Families, advocates decry Statehouse bill to outlaw adolescent transgender care in SC
- ACLU-SC Releases Statement on Trans Healthcare Ban
- Nearly 200 South Carolina Lawmakers, Moms Demand Action Volunteers, and Gun Violence Survivors Gathered at the South Carolina State House for Advocacy Day
- Mount Pleasant passed two hate crime ordinances Wednesday
- Tri-County ranks high in number of human trafficking cases, data shows
- Hundreds of Paid Poll Workers Needed for Presidential Preference Primaries
- Historic Charleston Foundation reconsiders intention to sell of Nathaniel Russell House
- Lowcountry mental health access sees improvements, ongoing struggles
- Refurbished John L. Dart Library to reopen in late January
- A new generation of American mahjong players emerge in Charleston
- Folly navigates choppy seas as short-term rental limits divide residents, rental operators
- Descendants fight to maintain historic Black communities
- Record Rent Burdens Batter Low-Income Life
- The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Presents Young Contemporaries 2024
- Berkeley Co. project creates homes for families in need
- P&C Editorial: Bicyclists need their own path next to North Bridge. You can help.
- PARTICIPATE: Be a part of the Union Pier Community Advisory Council
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events
- JAN 16: Coast to Coast Racial Healing Circle (virtual)
- JAN 18 : Acting on Climate Together: Solutions for Charleston County (WEBINAR)
- JAN 18: Volunteer Wire Reef Build
- JAN 20: Ashley River Cleanup at Magnolia
- JAN 21: Soul of the Lowcountry Oyster Roast
- JAN 23: Lowcountry Lecture: Native Plant Gardening in our Community
- JAN 26: Clara’s Kids Club Youth Litter Sweep at Mary Utsey Park
- JAN 27: Grassroots Gala, a Charleston Surfrider Foundation Celebration
- JAN 27: Good Catch Dinner with Hank’s Seafood
- JAN 30: CULTIVATE SciArt Happy Hour – Balance Through The A.G.E.s
For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR
#GoodStuff – interesting articles and resources from around the web
- Nonprofit AF: Funders, do you have Main Character Syndrome and are engaging in crappy funding practices?
- From Flint to Everywhere: The Ongoing Struggle for Clean Water in Black Communities
- Has a big village of tiny homes eased homelessness in Austin?
- Only outside pressure can stop Israel’s war crimes | Naomi Klein
- The Monstrosity of Maritime Capitalism
- Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2023
- Sober as a college student? Why Gen Z shrugs at alcohol.
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
GRASSROOT GUIDE NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT:
Charleston’s Cinderella Project
“free prom wear and accessories for high school junior and senior girls who otherwise could not afford it”
#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine:
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi (Author)
“Informed and passionate . . . Khalidi’s is an elegy for the Palestinians, for their dispossession, for their failure to resist conquest.”
–The Guardian
“The Hundred Years’ War is one of the best-researched general surveys of 20th and early 21st century Palestinian life, but it’s also a deeply personal work. . . . For a people whose history is all but criminalized, this act of retelling is itself a form of resistance.”
–The Nation
“Rigorous and lucid . . . Rashid Khalidi, the intellectual heir to Edward Said, has written one of the great books on the Israeli-Palestinian question.”
–Financial Times
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