Changemakers Weekly Digest – Edition #37

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Featured

AV Drive for “Elders Speak” Oral History Project

#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

• Tribe In Berkeley County To Record Oral History For Digital Archives Project
• Carolina Youth Action Project’s new annual zine is accepting submissions
• City Council passes resolution encouraging passage of state hate crime bill
• Quintin’s Close-Ups: Christian Senger, Founder of Holy City Sinner
• Social Venture Partners (SVP) Charleston announces new nonprofit funding cycle
• FAB, Charleston’s Hospitality Industry Conference for and by Women, Returns in June
• TURN90: Fact v. fiction of mass incarceration
• Charleston Moves Announces 2022 Mobility Month Programming
• The Charleston night market is looking for Lowcountry vendors with wow factor
• Charleston loses ‘cleanest in the nation’ in new State of the Air report
• CofC’s Charissa Owens Receives Award for “If These Walls Could Talk” Documentary
• Charleston among most unaffordable US counties to own a home, study says
• Local Nonprofit Going Places to host 2nd Annual Gala on May 21st
• GREENBIZ Spotlight: ReCandle Charleston

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

#GoodEvents – upcoming nonprofit events

Mobility Month with Charleston Moves
MAY 1-31

• APR 29: Relay For Life of Palmetto Lowcountry
• APR 30: Charleston | March for Babies
• APR 30: In the Moment with Ohm Radio & Amor Healing Kitchen
• MAY 1-31: Mobility Month with Charleston Moves
• MAY 1: Picnic in the Parks: A Birthday Celebration
• MAY 5: Cinco de Mom-o
• MAY 6-8: 51st Anniversary Greek Festival
• MAY 7: Marine Mammal Art Show
• MAY 7: Charleston Dragon Boat Festival
• MAY 7: 19th Annual Moms’ Run + Family Fun Day
• MAY 11: One-In-Three Afternoon Tea
• MAY 12: 2022 Lowcountry Diversity Leadership Awards
• MAY 14: AMOR 5Kale Yeah!
• MAY 14: Wish Night
• MAY 14: 5th Annual \”Tea with SOUL\” fundraiser
• MAY 14: Simple Fest
• MAY 15: Animals, Art & Automobiles
• MAY 15: Bridge Adventure Ride
• MAY 20: Summer Fête
• MAY 21: National Safe Boating Week – 2022 Charleston Kickoff Festival
• MAY 21: Hampton Park Plant Swap
• MAY 21: 12th Annual Dancing With The ARK’s Stars
• MAY 21: Going Places’ Gala
• MAY 22: 14th Annual Chef’s Potluck
• MAY 29: Gullah/Geechee Connecting Wid Da Diaspora
• MAY 31- JUN 5: Park Circle Pride Festival

For our most up-to-date curated event listings,
check out our COMMUNITY CALENDAR

#GoodStuff – interesting articles from around the web

• Tipped restaurant workers reported more harassment during the pandemic, especially women of color
• A Radical Way of Teaching Architecture
• Code for America thinks it can unwind the administrative burdens that annoy and impoverish countless families
• Can ‘Cathonomics’ produce a just and sustainable world?
• Exploring the Midwest’s forgotten utopian communes
• Tell Better Stories to Win Public Opinion (and Elections)
• Can you truly own anything in the metaverse? A law professor explains how blockchains and NFTs don’t protect virtual property
• Nonprofit AF: Inflation is killing nonprofits. Funders, you need to supplement your grants immediately

#CHSvolunteers – featured volunteer opportunities

• 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

• Annie E. Casey Foundation youth-led youth justice projects
• Native American Agriculture Fund grants
• The Lewis Prize for Music
• Craig Newmark Philanthropies
• ACT on Health Equity Community Solutions Challenge
• Companioning Grievers Foundation
• Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
• National Endowment for Democracy grants
• Parker’s Community Fund
• Carolina Panthers Charities
• LOCAL:
  • Social Venture Partners Charleston
  • Coastal Community Foundation grants

#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities

• FEATURED:
  • Lowcountry Youth Services – Program Direct / Young Men Rise
  • Our partners at LIME are Hiring in Charleston!
• 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

• I-HOPE Women’s Business Center: Free Resources & Training
• Affordable Housing Dashboard – up-to-date development info from the City of Charleston
• Lowcountry Green Calendar – new collaborative niche calendar for local environmental events
• Lowcountry Green Guide – newly launched local environmental organizations and businesses directory

#GoodBooks – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop

• Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
  Kim Kelly (Author)
• A Black Women’s History of the United States
  Daina Ramey Berry (Author) Kali Nicole Gross (Author)
• The Antiracist Business Book: An Equity Centered Approach to Work, Wealth, and Leadership
  Trudi Lebron (Author) Arlan Hamilton (Foreword by)
• Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
  Brittney C Cooper (Author)
• Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
  Marc Lamont Hill (Author) Todd Brewster (Author)

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