Rest Is Celebrated

Shared by: Cate M. (Founder & Director, Be The Ones)

If you’re subscribed to our newsletter (and if not, join here!) or following along here you may be wondering where our latest year-end story is.

One of our organizational values is “rest is celebrated.” We haven’t done a very good job of upholding that value and underestimated how much rest we needed following the November municipal elections (and as the only organization that mobilized voters & got out the vote in Charleston).

So, we’re prioritizing the celebration of rest right now and will get back to storytelling in January. Don’t go anywhere, we have a long list of stories to share!

Until then, here are just a few of our favorite moments from this year:

• Hosting “Mayoral Mingle Community Celebration” in partnership with SC Housing Justice Network and 30+ local organizations
• Receiving messages like this from Alan T.
• Launching a first of its kind Get Out The Vote “bar” crawl to help food & bev workers
• Engaging College of Charleston students and registering 128 new voters in 6 hours
• Proving our voices are louder together
• Bringing Frankie’s story to South Carolina
• Joining I Serve With Joy to serve 300+ local families and create this community art project
• Participating in events like Lowcountry LevelUp to engage young folks in rural communities
• Making our TV & radio debuts (didn’t have Fox News on our bingo card for this year)
• Celebrating new partnerships like this one with Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
• And, if you need to catch up on our year-end stories already shared

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