Changemakers Weekly Digest – 2024 – #25

#GoodBits- Featured Announcements & Resources

• To participate in the Regional Minority & Women-Owned Business Survey, please follow the link below:  Peninsula Plan: Regional Minority & Women-Owned Business Survey

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• SC budget writers threaten to cut funds for libraries that don’t vet books for young people
• SC service workers demand relief from ‘sweltering’ work conditions
• Charleston’s mayor has a plan for city’s homeless. But will it work as prices keep rising?
• Coastal Community Foundation Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Gala Announcement and New Nonprofit Impact Award
• Charleston honors 9 firefighters who died in historic Sofa Super Store inferno
• Resilience is the message 9 years after the Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting
• Updated: How to find all the workforce housing for rent in Charleston County
• Empty lot could support N. Charleston affordable housing, mayor says
• $43M affordable housing complex opens in Charleston’s eastside
• Honoring Emanuel 9: Family and community remember with balloons and prayers
• Gullah Geechee home saved by community-effort roof repair
• Rex: A free and fair election?
• VIDEO: Favor Foundation to help N. Charleston families with outreach
• Grading food: DHEC hands off restaurant inspections to a new state agency
• IAAM Celebrates First Anniversary with a Week of Special Events
• Program aims to boost childcare worker retention in SC
• VIDEO: Palmetto Artisan Program expands business opportunity for youth
• ICYMI
  • South Carolina (again) ranks among the worst states for child well-being
  • Kids Eat Free at MUSC
  • REPORT: South Carolina ranked among worst states for LGBTQ equality
  • In the Charleston area, someone earning $58,900 is now considered ‘low income’
  • Bookmark this: How to join fun summer reading programs in Charleston
  • CJCC Releases Report on Local Justice System Performance
  • Crisis in the Carolinas: Racial Disparities, the Climate Catastrophe and Environmental Racism and in the Lowcountry

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check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• JUN 25: Film Screening: Scarlet Sky and Blue Blood
• JUN 27: Jammin’ for Justice
• JUN 29: “CSO at The Joe” concert
• JUL 8-12: Kid’s Natural Building Summer Camp
• JUL 11: Charleston Green Drinks : Plastic-Free Campaign
• JUL 13: Spanglish Small Business Expo
• JUL 13: Book & Beer Market

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

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