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Changemakers Weekly Digest – Edition #7

Changemakers Weekly Digest – Edition #7

Welcome to the Changemakers Weekly Digest!

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news, perspectives, ideas, events, resources and more…

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#GoodNews – local nonprofit & grassroots headlines

  • The Avondale 5k Run & Walk Is Back and Celebrating Its 12th Year
  • Gibbes Museum’s Film Series to Focus on Racial Passing
  • Eat & Drink for a Cause at SOL Southwest Kitchen & Tequila Bar
  • SC Attorney General Awards Grant to Carolina Youth Development Center
  • Mount Pleasant Community Arts Center to host First Coffee House Variety Show in October
  • Fatty’s Beer Works Hosting “Bea Strong Silent Auction + Fundraiser” for Local Resident Battling Stage 4 Cancer
  • Charleston churches’ Micah Project provides platform to discuss divisive issues
  • Charleston rugby teams pass message of inclusion for LGBTQ in sports, community
  • Proposed sea wall project could leave low-income areas vulnerable
  • Tha CommUNITY co-owners want to bring more color to local taprooms
  • WATCH: 2021 Green Tie Awards Full Program Video
  • LISTEN: Holy City Sinner Radio Featuring Katie Blomquist of Going Places

#GoodEvents – upcoming nonprofit events

SEP 15 – OCT 15: Hispanic Heritage Month Events
SEP 30 – OCT 10: MOJA Arts Festival

  • OCT 6-7: YES! Fest: A Better World Rising (virtual)
  • OCT 6: SIT A SPELL | Dr. Kameelah Martin
  • OCT 7: Cine latinoamericano: películas en idioma español
  • OCT 7: FREE SCORE WEBINAR – Nonprofit Volunteer Management
  • OCT 9: Bea Strong Fundraiser
  • OCT 9: Charleston Beer Fest (CANCELLED)
  • OCT 9: NAMI Walks Charleston
  • OCT 9: Peace Walk
  • OCT 10: Latin American Festival
  • OCT 11: HALSEY & WSG INTERSECTIONS PANEL DISCUSSION | Namsa Leuba (hybrid)
  • OCT 14: Healing Farms ‘Believe in Possibility’ Virtual Gala
  • OCT 15: “A MONTH and SOME DAYS | UN MES Y DIAS” Free Documentary Screening
  • OCT 15-16: Rural & Limited Resource Landowner Symposium (hybrid)
  • OCT 16: Walk to End Alzheimers
  • OCT 16: Carolina Surf Film Festival
  • OCT 17: 5th Annual Hike for Mike
  • OCT 21: Final Resting Places (virtual)
  • OCT 23: Let’s Talk About It Party
  • OCT 23: Fall Into Justice
  • OCT 29: Party for the Parks
  • OCT 30: LUNG FORCE Run/Walk 5K
  • OCT 30: HALOS Kinship Caregivers Conference
  • NOV 6: Revel on the River
  • NOV 11: LAF Percentage Night at Holy City Brewing
  • NOV 19: Festival of Trees/Sparkles & Spirits’ Gala
  • NOV 20: Cross the Cut Ride
  • DEC 3: Art for Good: Auction & Music
  • DEC 11: Sea Life by Starlight
  • DEC 18: Spot Light Awards

#GoodStuff – interesting articles from around the web

  • How Los Angeles Became the City of Dingbats
  • This Nigerian startup sells solar-powered batteries at corner stores
  • The Racist Lady with the Lamp
  • Why Is America So Bad at Keeping People Ali
  • What’s in a Social Justice Diet?
  • 6 Latinx-led cooperatives you should learn about this Hispanic Heritage Month
  • Care to join us in saying #byefacebook?
    • Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.

#CHSvolunteers – featured volunteer opportunities

  • FEATURED: @MadParkCommunity is officially accepting volunteers! Mad Park Community’s mission is to significantly improve the health of our community through fitness, education, holistic nutrition, and well-being services offered to low-income families. To all health and wellness enthusiasts, come and join as we continue to impact our community! For more insight about how you can become a MAD Volunteer, contact us at madparkcommunity@gmail.com
  • 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

  • People, Parks, and Power: A National Initiative for Green Space, Health Equity, and Racial Justice
  • EJ4Climate: Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience
  • Lalor Foundation – Reproductive Health grants
  • Catholic Campaign for Human Development
  • Klorane Botanical Foundation Budding Botanist Grant
  • American Association of University Women American Fellowships
  • Conservation Alliance grants
  • SCDHEC: K-12 Champions of the Environment grants (deadline: Oct 15)

#GoodJobs – local nonprofit job opportunities

  • FEATURED: Carolina Youth Action Network seeks Sex Education Peer Educators
  • 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

  • Green Worker Co-op – helps immigrants and communities of color “build, grow and sustain worker-owned green businesses”
  • NonprofitReady.org –  “Over 500 learning resources to help you and your nonprofit do more good”
  • SnipClip – Free screen recorder – No ads, installs or limits. Cool.
  • 7 privacy-first search engines
  • Stumbled – “discover the most interesting, weird or awesome websites”

#GoodBooks – Newly featured in Charleston Good’s Bookshop

  • White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
    Tyler Stovall (Author)
  • Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
    Tim Harper (Author)
  • I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
    Ed Yong (Author)
  • In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
    Caren Zucker (Author) John Donvan (Author)
  • Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
    Thor Hanson (Author)

 


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