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Charleston’s convenient source for the latest Lowcountry nonprofit & grassroots
news, perspectives, ideas, events, resources and more…
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#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- City of Charleston Recreation Department to offer free summer meals for children 18 and under
- Upcoming Grand Bohemian Exhibition to Benefit Sober Living Homes
- Tuberculosis, other potential human pathogens in Charleston waterways, C of C study finds
- Goose Creek contributes $500,000 to help local small businesses expand
- Environmental advocacy groups hopeful for future after cruise ship plan announcement
- CJCC Encourages the Community to Engage in Improving the Local Criminal Justice System
- Diversity champion receives inaugural Diversity Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award
- Learn about NAMI Charleston Area (SC) – Providing support, education, and advocacy for people with mental health conditions and their families
- Charleston startup lands ‘significant’ investment to help with renter affordability
- College of Charleston School of Business to Host Second Annual Women for Women Summit
- Vintage Gala to Benefit Green Heart Project & Charleston Waterkeeper
- Expansive Johns Island farm could be protected from development with greenbelt money
- Charleston County Council Announces Vacancies on Boards and Commissions
- Man’s goal to ‘Uplift Charleston’ helps fill needs of Lowcountry’s homeless
- Salary study shows Charleston facing high employee turnover
- Warrior Surf Foundation Partners with Charleston Real Producers for Veteran Surf Lessons and Cocktail Hour
- JUN 8: World Ocean Day Coastal Cleanup
- Six Rehabilitated Sea Turtles Released at Folly Beach County Park
- Free Mount Pleasant to Isle of Palms CARTA shuttle bus returns for 2022 beach season
- 2022 South Carolina Arts Awards to be broadcast on SCETV
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#GoodEvents – upcoming nonprofit events
World Ocean Day Coastal Cleanup
JUN 8
Vintage Gala – Community, Conservaton, and Cheers!
JUN 16
Gullah Juneteenth Freedom Celebration 2022
JUN 18
- JUN 5-7: FAB Hospitality Workshop Created By Women, For Women
- JUN 6: ‘Give Back Charleston’ Dinner
- JUN 7: Living your Truth – Conversations in Courage (virtual)
- JUN 8: World Ocean Day Coastal Cleanup
- JUN 10: Art + Sole Sneaker Gala
- JUN 10: The Charleston Forum Annual Event 2022
- JUN 11: Black Business Expo
- JUN 11: LYS Awards & Induction Ceremony
- JUN 11: A Women Veterans Day Celebration!
- JUN 11: Root of Soul: J19th Fest
- JUN 11: Music in tha’ Park
- JUN 11: North Charleston Fifty Fest
- JUN 14: CHS Hospitality & Tourism Hiring Event
- JUN 16: Vintage Gala – Community, Conservation, and Cheers!
- JUN 17: 2022 Oxygen Ball
- JUN 18: Charleston Duck Race
- JUN 18: Gullah Juneteenth Freedom Celebration 2022
- JUN 18: Charleston Carifest Caribbean Carnival
- JUN 18: Juneteenth Family Fest Charleston 2022
- JUN 19: 2022 Lowcountry Juneteenth Week Festival
- JUN 21: GREEN DRINKS: Water-Rain Harvesting-Pollution
- JUN 23: Women for Women Summit
- JUN 25: 11th Annual Charleston Natural Hair Expo
- JUN 25: Annual Charleston PRIDE Parade
For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR
#GoodStuff – interesting articles from around the web
- ‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon
- Nonprofit AF: How do we cope with so much pain and despair?
- How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today
- Waste wood chemically recycled to produce material stronger than steel
- Happier employees, higher profits: Restaurant owners spend more, and it pays off
- Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air
- UK orders facial recognition firm Clearview AI to delete images belonging to UK residents
- “Reforestation Hubs” Are Saving Urban Trees From Heading to Landfills
- Starbucks Workers Are Winning 90 Percent of Their Union Elections
- The living coffin that transforms your body into compost
#CHSvolunteers – featured volunteer opportunities
- FEATURED: Teen & Adult Opportunities at Amor Healing Kitchen
- Charleston Waterkeeper Volunteer Calendar
- Upcoming Charleston Surfrider volunteer opportunities
- Green Heart Project Volunteer Calendar
- Be a Mentor with Lowcountry Youth Services
- Volunteer at Fresh Future Farm
Check out our GRASSROOTS GUIDE for more local organizations actively seeking volunteers
#GoodFundingFriday – featured grant opportunities
- Infinite Hero Foundation – Military and Families program grants
- American Legion Child Welfare Foundation grants
- Transformational Partnerships Fund – College and University Collaborative Initiatives
- Home Depot Foundation – Veterans Housing Grants Program
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund – Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
- Native Voices Rising grants
- American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation – free clinics grant program
- Boat US Foundation Grassroots Grants Program
- Believe in Reading grants
- Saxena Family Foundation grants
- Barney Family Foundation
- Galesi Family Foundation grants
- Harry Chapin Foundation grants
#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities
- SCACED: Job Board
- Together SC: Lowcountry Nonprofit Jobs
- Linkedin: Charleston Nonprofit Jobs
- Indeed: Nonprofit jobs in Charleston SC
- SimplyHired: Nonprofit Jobs in Charleston SC
#GoodResources – a grab-bag of useful stuff
- Unlock Potential – Employers can disrupt the prison pipeline.
- Work On Climate – community for people serious about climate work. Find climate jobs. Build climate companies. Find your people.
- Charleston Green Drinks – Learn a little, connect a lot
- Lowcountry Green Calendar – new collaborative niche calendar for local environmental events
#GoodBooks – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
- Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays
Barry Lopez (Author) Rebecca Solnit (Introduction by) - Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
Winfred Rembert (Author) Erin I Kelly (Author) & 1 more - White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
Sheryll Cashin (Author) - Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Monica M. White (Author) Ladonna Redmond (Foreword by) - Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Andrea Elliott (Author)
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