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
- ACTION ALERT: Defend SC Women’s Abortion Rights
- APPLY NOW for Charleston Water System Citizens Academy
- Trident United Way Delivers 2,700 Backpacks to Seven Tri-County Title 1 Schools
- Why bees are key in the Lowcountry
- Charleston to invest around $10M to address flooding in Eastside
- Charleston Latin American Festival set for October 9
- Boeing Doubles Giving to IAAM with Additional $1 Million Investment
- After delays, the International African American Museum is set to open early 2023
- Charleston leaders discuss future of Lowcountry Lowline
- Biden-Harris Administration Announces $12.8 Million in Funding for Two Projects in South Carolina – Including Lowcountry Lowline
- After lofty promises, North Charleston gun violence groups still wait for support
- Group urges Charleston Co. Schools to answer for ‘racial intimidation,’ ‘hostile environment’
- Carolina Children’s Charity to Host 19th Annual Local 5k to Benefit Kids in Our Community
- Illumination Charleston Returning in December
- Will This Save Charleston, S.C., From Rising Seas?
- 25 years of local music moments
- Quintin’s Close-Ups: Turning Page Bookshop’s Valinda Miller
- Quintin’s Close-Ups: Charlotte Berger
For Lowcountry environmental news & resources,
check out our partners at GrowPurpose.com
#GoodEvents – upcoming nonprofit events
- 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 27: DF Enterprises of SC 13th Annual Peace Rally
- AUG 27: Tri-County Play Collaborative DAY OF PLAY at the Gibbes
- AUG 29 : Racial Healing Circles
- AUG 31: Overdose Awareness Day
For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR
#GoodStuff – interesting articles from around the web
- A “green vortex” is saving America’s climate future.
- Why the Son of a Hated Dictator Won the Philippine Elections
- Poll reveals white Americans see an increase in discrimination against other white people and less against other racial groups
- Researchers agree: The world can reach a 100% renewable energy system by or before 2050
- Hydrogel that outperforms cartilage could be in human knees in 2023
- ‘Swords to Plows’: This Nonprofit is Turning Guns into Garden Tools
- This group’s wiped out $6.7 billion in medical debt, and it’s just getting started
- Colorado to stop sales tax on diapers and menstrual products
#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
- Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement – mini grants
- Ploughshares Fund – promoting a nuclear-free weapons world
- Internet Society Foundation – Building Opportunities/Leveraging Technologies
- T-Mobile Hometown Grants Program
- Progressive Multiplier Fund
- Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation
- National Endowment for Democracy grants
- Sphinx Venture Fund – DEI in arts grants
- Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund – energy plan grants
- Fund for Wild Nature
#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities
- FEATURED:
- 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
- ‘We need co-conspirators, not allies’: how white Americans can fight racism
- For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies
- Anti-Racism Resource Hub – a collection of self-education resources
- 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:
What We Owe the Future
William Macaskill (Author)
“This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It’s as simple, and as ambitious, as that.”
–Ezra Klein
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