Changemakers Weekly Digest – 2024 – #9

#GoodBits- Featured Announcements

• Root Down Building Collective Launches Fundraiser
  “We have a building permit to build a panelized Hempcrete structure right here in Charleston County!!! Help us advance Healthy Hempcrete Affordable Housing by supporting our first pilot project, THE CHARLESTON HEALTHY HOUSING PROJECT!!!“

• Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) Launches Technology/Digital Needs Survey
  “Please help us better understand the digital and technology needs of members of our Charleston County community as we further enhance our services and programs at the libraries. The survey should only take 8 minutes! This survey is administered by the CCPL Office of Innovation.”

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• Moore: Extreme abortion bans inflame Black maternal mortality crisis
• ACLU-SC: South Carolina silences the voices of incarcerated people. We’re suing to change that.
• Struggle to Strength: How African Americans have made a mark on American history and culture
• South Carolina’s push to be next-to-last state with hate crimes law stalls again
• Charleston’s sewers sometimes overflow. Now the issue is likely heading to court.
• Charleston County ambassador program to help drive voter education, registration
• Coalition advocates for passage of the South Carolina Justice Act
• Historical marker unveiled outside Charleston home of Septima P. Clark
• Renowned filmmaker Julie Dash to speak at International African American Museum
• Diving into the history of Mosquito Beach, the Charleston area’s last Black beach
• Charleston Co. teachers’ task force sets eyes on next step to increase pay
• Folly Beach Library to close several months for renovations
• Chuck’s Big Adventure in Charleston: The Gullah Experience
• SUNSETJAMZ Launches Website, Announces Events on Mosquito Beach

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

#GoodEvents – a few featured upcoming nonprofit events

• MAR 8: Día Internacional de la Mujer en Charleston
• MAR 9: Black Expo Charleston 2024
• MAR 9: Unity in our CommUNITY
• MAR 9: 20th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Block Party & Parade
• MAR 9: 2024 Youth Symposium/Project Alpha
• MAR 9-10: Lowcountry Pow Wow & Cultural Festival
• MAR 14: Charleston Green Drinks – TRIVIA NIGHT

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:

Friends of Joseph Floyd Manor
provides advocacy, resources and support to the residents of Joseph Floyd Manor

#GOODBOOKS – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop

The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
Ajay Singh Chaudhary (Author)

“Have you felt exhausted lately? In this wonderfully rich inquiry into late climate politics, Ajay Singh Chaudhary zooms in on exhaustion as the predicament of a world too long subjected to the ‘extractive circuit’ of capital: the constant sapping of energies, returning to the planet as excess heat. The wretched of the Earth are today the exhausted — and if there is any way to fight back, it is, as Chaudhary so convincingly argues, with southern resources, assembled by everyone from Frantz Fanon to Imam Mahdi. Bristling with ideas on every page, this book is the energy drink you need.” – Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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