Welcome to the 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 “CONNECT” link on CharlestonGood.com
or via email anytime: charlestongood@gmail.com
#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines
- Teen cancer survivor becomes Charleston County Sheriff’s deputy
- Mount Pleasant nonprofit gets $1 million donation
- Redux Contemporary Art Center Announces New Executive Director
- Three Charleston organizations awarded grant to address barriers to better the healthcare system
- Former Boeing executive to serve as senior advisor for Grant Philanthropic Advisors
- Local stewards of the Angel Oak reflect on what’s to come
- New Criminal Justice Coordinating Council Director
- YWCA Greater Charleston announces honorees for ‘What Women Bring 2022′
- Charleston’s struggle over residential rent is real
- Businessman frustrated over large potholes in North Charleston
- The Halsey Institute’s Next Exhibition Focuses on Influence of Chemical Companies
- City of Charleston asks for community involvement for next step of the Peninsula Plan
- Quintin’s Close-Ups: ‘I Serve With Joy’ Executive Director Joy Campbell
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#GoodEvents – upcoming nonprofit events
- AUG 15: Racial Healing Circles
- AUG 18: Faith Communities & Climate Resilience Summit: From Resilience to Restoration (VIRTUAL)
- 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 13: Charleston Performing Arts Scholarship Info Session
- AUG 25: Kiss the Ground – Documentary & Discussion Night
- 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
- How to start your own free store
- Enlightenment 2.0: We need another Age of Reason to save our civilization
- The climate bill could short-circuit EV tax credits, making qualifying for them nearly impossible
- Building Community Institutions of Our Own
- What is Afrofuturism? An English professor explains
- Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom
#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
- chromatic black – Ida B. Wells Fund
- The 1954 Project: Luminary Awards
- Hydro Flask: Parks for All
- Pillars Fund – muslim nonprofits
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation – Civil Society, Education, and Environment Initiatives
- Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund
- GivingTuesday – Starling Collective Fellowship
- Zendesk Foundation – Tech for Good grants
- Aura Cacia Positive Change Project serving women and girls
- Mockingbird Foundation- youth music education grants
#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities
- FEATURED:
- The Opportunity Center- Building Coordinator
- 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 – shows potential impacts of climate investments for your community
- PODCAST – Partnership for Resilient Communities Oral Storytelling Project
- 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:
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
Danny Caine (Author)
“When a company’s workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas… wouldn’t you want to resist?”
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