Changemakers Weekly Digest – 2024 – #4

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• WATCH: South Carolinians Testify Against Anti-Transgender Healthcare Ban H.4624
• Website Launch & Public Meetings about Future Potential Road Projects and Green Space Preservation
• Skeptical Johns Island residents oppose a tax extension that would fund Mark Clark
• Polite: My family’s link to West Africa is told in IAAM exhibit
• SC WIL Responds to SC Senate Leaders’ Comments on All Male State Supreme Court
• SEL4SC Brings Back Acclaimed Screenagers Film Series in 2024
• Charleston Police’s racial bias audit: Community learns about progress and concerns
• Two agencies using AI to monitor roadways in Lowcountry
• State and National Organizations Rally at Statehouse for Municipal Election System Choice
• Charleston Parks Conservancy Welcomes New Members to its Board of Directors
• City of Isle of Palms to Host Front Beach Fest
• Senate OKs bill aiming to attract South Carolinians to second careers as teachers
• Proposed county plan outlines economic benefits of climate action
• New North Charleston Fire Chief working to uphold legacy, plans future strategies
• P&C Editorial: Have nonprofits helped North Charleston reduce gun violence? Good question.
• 40th Annual Lowcountry Oyster Festival Announces Entertainment and Beneficiaries
• Charleston Co. Board of Trustees votes to offer acting supt. permanent position
• Ohm Radio Offering Singing Telegrams for Valentine’s Day
• Library opens temporary location in McClellanville
• Annex Dance Company Announces Performance at the Sottile Theatre
• SERVE: on a Citizens Commission or Board

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• JAN 30: CULTIVATE SciArt Happy Hour – Balance Through The A.G.E.s
• JAN 31: CCC Presents: Vanguards of the Climate Movement, Pt. 1
• FEB 1: Building Better Backyards for Birds (hybrid)
• FEB 2: Young Contemporaries 2024 (Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony)
• FEB 3: Waves4Women Chili Cook Off
• FEB 4: Shucked and Sauced
• FEB 8: Green Drinks Social

For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR

#GoodStuff – interesting articles and resources from around the web

• What Is ‘Settler Colonialism’?
• The Rise of the American Oligarchy
• Building the Solidarity Economy by Boosting Black-Owned Co-ops
• What Recovery? COVID is far from over for Latinos
• Scientists scrutinize happiness research
• Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

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:

Transformative Teaching Collective
“a worker-owned cooperative founded to promote social justice education in the Lowcountry and beyond”

#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Hannah Ritchie (Author)

“This “truly essential” book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems (Margaret Atwood)–and explains how we can solve them. It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, and that we should reconsider having children. But in this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, a very different picture emerges.”

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