Welcome to the Changemakers Weekly Digest!
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
- South Carolina Wants to Ban People From Even Talking About Abortion Pills
- Lowes Foods Local Social partnering with I Serve With Joy
- Edisto Island native Emily Meggett to receive President’s Volunteer Service Award
- Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center Shares Guidance on Safer Sleepovers
- Charleston to envision middle, upper peninsula’s future for next 20 years
- Charleston Parks Conservancy Team Grows with New Staff Members
- BCLS’s “Give Our Books New Looks” Art Contest Needs Talented Third-Fifth Grade Artists
- Expected overcrowding at Charleston-area high schools leads to building of ‘cottages’
- CCPL to Open Renovated Mount Pleasant Library on August 6th
- Charleston breaks ground on $42M affordable housing project for seniors on the East Side
- Charleston leaders creating new city disaster plan
- Charleston Teacher Alliance Releases the Results of its Annual School Leadership Survey
- Charleston testing all-electric garbage truck
- Meeting Street Scholarship Fund to grant 177 SC scholarships
- Quintin’s Close-Ups: Shelters to Shutters’ Daniel Stern
- College of Charleston Recognized as a Tree Campus
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#GoodEvents – upcoming nonprofit events
- AUG 1: Ohm Radio Seven Year Broadcast Anniversary Celebration!
- AUG 3: Racial Healing Circles
- AUG 4: Community Constellations
- AUG 4: Going Places Charity Night
- AUG 4: SCDOT Public Info Meeting on Pedestrian Safety Improvements
- AUG 4: Sierra Club Summer Picnic on Shem Creek
- AUG 5: Great Teachers, Great Leaders Luncheon
- AUG 6: 4th Annual Pack The Back-Back to School Event
- AUG 7: Annual First Day Festival
- AUG 9: GREEN DRINKS: Climate Change | SURGE Release Party
- AUG 11-13: Charleston Friends of the Library Johns Island Branch Book Sale
- AUG 13: SHSC Community Health Fair
- AUG 13: Laps for Love
- AUG 13: FUNdraiser Jump – Special Needs Kids
- AUG 13: NCPD “Its Cool To Be In School” Supply Giveaway / Fun Day
- AUG 14: Back 2 School Jamboree
- AUG 15: Racial Healing Circles
- AUG 19: Beer from Here After Hours at the Aquarium
- AUG 20: Sickle Cell Awareness Gala
- AUG 20: Empowered Minds Fundraiser at the Music Farm
- AUG 22: Racial Healing Circles
- AUG 27: 25th Annual Awendaw Blue Crab Festival
- AUG 27: 23rd Annual McElveen Race For The ARK
- AUG 27: Hope Walk 5K (Charleston)
- AUG 29 : Racial Healing Circles
For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR
#GoodStuff – interesting articles from around the web
- Is the American Myth Unraveling?
- There’s More to Social Justice Than Just ‘Raising Awareness’
- Delaware will give free solar panels to low-income residents
- Four revealing graphs on paid family leave
- Black women will get no-strings-attached monthly checks in this new guaranteed income experiment
- What does it mean to be a ‘person’? Different cultures have different answers
- U.S. sales of EVs are surging in the most unlikely places
- Heather McGhee Is Telling Untold Stories About Solidarity in a New Podcast
- Colombian woman is NASA’s new flight director
#CHSvolunteers – featured volunteer opportunities
- FEATURED:
- 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
- American Bar Endowment: Opportunity Grant Program
- Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation program grants
- The Lisa Libraries – book donation program
- National Birth Equity Collaborative invites applications for Birth Justice Rapid Response Fund
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Policies to Build and Sustain Economic Security and Wealth for Families and Communities of Color program
- Weeden Foundation – environmental grants
- Corning Museum of Glass – BIPOC artist residency
#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities
- FEATURED:
- Charleston Legal Access – Attorney Fellow – Equal Justice Works Housing Justice Program
- Green Heart Project – Garden Educator
- SCACED: Job Board
- Together SC: Lowcountry Nonprofit Jobs
- Linkedin: Charleston Nonprofit Jobs
- Indeed: Nonprofit jobs in Charleston SC
- SimplyHired: Nonprofit Jobs in Charleston SC
For more local nonprofit jobs information,
check out our CHARLESTON NONPROFIT JOBS HUB
#GoodResources – a grab-bag of useful stuff
- Climate Opportunity Map – enter your zip code to see local benefits from climate investments
- How to be an Unincorporated Association – a legal guide
- SC Abortion Rights Resource Hub – a new collection of resources in support of women in SC
- Lowcountry Green Calendar – new collaborative niche calendar for local environmental events
#GoodBooks – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop
Check out our new featured book:
The Moral Case for Abortion: A Defence of Reproductive Choice
Ann Furedi (Author)
“This revised and updated edition of the 2016 bestselling work sets out the moral arguments for a woman’s right to decide the future of her pregnancy. Drawing on traditions of philosophical and sociological thinking, it presents the case for recognizing autonomy in personal, private decision-making about reproductive intentions. Further, it argues that to prevent a woman making this decision according to her own values is to undermine the essence of her humanity. The author explores how true respect for human life and regard for individual conscience demands that we support a woman’s right to decide, and that support for her right to terminate her pregnancy has moral foundations and ethical integrity.”
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