Changemakers Weekly Digest – 2024 – #30

#GoodBits- Featured Announcements & Resources

• Our friends at East Bay True Value are having a BIG PLANT SALE!
• Resource: Voter Tools – all-in-one tool to verify, register, vote absentee, etc

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• Moratorium will temporarily prevent mass development in historic communities
• Gibbes Museum of Art Announces 1858 Prize Celebratory Exhibition
• Brack: What’s it going to take?
• We Are Family Receives Prestigious Grant from Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation
• We Are Family Introduces New Summer Programs Supporting Charleston LGBTQ+ Community
• Morrison Drive to get new pedestrian improvements after 2 women killed in April
• Feds investigate N. Charleston US Postal Service location after union complaint
• South Carolina ETV and Public Radio Continues the Palmetto Pencil Project to Support Teachers and Classrooms Across the State
• Charleston County finalizes project list for sales tax referendum. Here’s what’s on the ballot.
• Charleston Co. working to make homes ‘affordable’ for 99 years
• Sex trafficking in North Charleston motels is an open secret. Here’s why they can’t be held to account
• New Residency Ignites Sullivan’s Island
• N. Charleston mayor reflects on affordable housing progress: ‘I see a change.’
• A new media voice seeks liberal space in deep-red South Carolina. Can it succeed?
• Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Ohm Radio Announce Brass on the Grass at the Refinery
• SC students eligible for ‘reduced-price’ meals will receive them for free
• Charleston Zine Fest returns for its sixth year
• Charleston Police creates position to foster relationships with Hispanic community
• Trident United Way Announces Fourth Round of Community Changemaker Grants
• Charleston County passes 2-year building moratorium in historic preservation districts
• Bar Polari, Charleston’s Newest LGBTQ+ Bar, to Open on August 3rd
• Lowcountry nonprofits receive grant funding, support
• Southern Smoke introduces mental health program for F&B workers
• Soul Food Sundays provides hot meals to Lowcountry senior citizens
• CCPL Closing Edgar Allen Poe/Sullivan’s Island Library for Renovation as Part of Referendum-Funded Project
• Closet Of Hope asking community to help with school supplies for foster families
• ICYMI
  • N. Charleston group hopes to build bridge between Hispanic communities, city: ‘We are people’
  • Kids Eat Free at MUSC
  • REPORT: South Carolina ranked among worst states for LGBTQ equality
  • In the Tri-County, the “Survival Budget” for a Family of Four Increased by Over 25% from 2021 to 2022

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• JUL 29: Bite the Power
• JUL 30: Oyster Reef Build
• AUG 1: Sierra Club Picnic on Shem Creek
• AUG 3: Backpacks for Bright Futures
• AUG 4: Charleston Zine Fest
• AUG 8: Charleston Green Drinks – GREEN SOCIAL

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:

Charleston Food Not Bombs
Building community and fighting injustice through providing neighborhoods weekly free meals

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