Welcome to the 2024 Changemakers Weekly Digest!
Charleston’s convenient source for the latest Lowcountry nonprofit & grassroots
news, perspectives, ideas, events, resources and more…
Please keep sharing your events, ideas and resources via the “CONTACT US” link on CharlestonGood.com
or via email anytime: charlestongood@gmail.com
#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- Violence interruption hotline growing community programs and relationships
- Brack: Exploring everyday costs in South Carolina
- Santee Cooper is looking to collect a very big bill — from ratepayers
- Incentive Program Provides $500 to South Carolinians Who Earn a Secondary Diploma and an Additional $500 for Training
- “Sleeping with the Ancestors” exhibit explores slave dwellings and stories of enslaved people
- SC Senate passes Permitless Carry bill; House must approve changes
- South Carolina to provide free gun training classes under open carry bill passed by state
- Know a Theatre: PURE Theatre of Charleston
- Charleston Animal Society Announces Sesquicentennial Year
- Haley Says Charleston Shooting at Historic Black Church Was Not About Racism
- Soaring hurricane and flood insurance in SC? There’s a tax credit for that
- McMaster, local leaders celebrate Revolutionary War installation in Marion Square
- VIDEO: Charleston Tea Garden
- 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
- FEB 8: Green Drinks Social
- FEB 10: Oysters and Art Auction for Alzheimers Services
- FEB 10: Colour of Music Festival
- FEB 10: Cupid’s Chase 5K Charleston
- FEB 10: Building Healthy Communities 5K Run/Walk and Wellness Expo
- FEB 10: Black History Soul Meet & Eat
- FEB 17: Amor Healing Kitchen ‘6 Years of Service’ Celebration
- FEB 21-23: 2024 South Carolina’s Nonprofit Summit
- FEB 22: 11th Annual Good Business Summit
For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR
#GoodStuff – interesting articles and resources from around the web
- Black History Month 2024 has begun. Here’s this year’s theme and other things to know
- Can This Death Row Inmate Bring Down the Death Penalty Itself?
- Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
- This AI learnt language by seeing the world through a baby’s eyes
- They’ve lived 100 years. Here’s their advice about everything.
- The Most Overlooked Reason Black Americans Are Moving South
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:
The Slave Dwelling Project
“envisions a future in which the hearts and minds of Americans acknowledge a more truthful and inclusive narrative of the history of the nation that honors the contributions of all our people, is embedded and preserved in the buildings and artifacts of people of African heritage, and inspires all Americans to acknowledge their Ancestors.”
#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World–And How You Can, Too
Ijeoma Oluo (Author)
“With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World–and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems–like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more–she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. […] Oluo wishes to take our conversations on race and racism out of a place of pure pain and trauma, and into a place of loving action. Be A Revolution is both an urgent chronicle of this important moment in history, as well as an inspiring and restorative call for action.”
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