Helping Out for Aug. 28, 2019

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Helping Out highlights some of the many charitable events and activities going on in the Charleston area. ATTENTION: Submissions should now be made using our online form.

The Moncks Corner Pan-Hellenic Council, a nonprofit organization comprising four fraternities and four sororities, will host its inaugural Moncks Corner Greek Weekend Sept. 13-15.

The community is invited to watch the Greeklympics event, where members of the Moncks Corner Pan-Hellenic Council fraternities and sororities will compete in childhood games such as a sack race, tug of war and cornhole. There will be food trucks, kids activities, a jump castle and community vendors.

Attendees can watch the games and learn more about the Greek organizations under the National Pan-Hellenic Council umbrella and their community service efforts. The event is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Moncks Corner Regional Recreation Complex. Admission is one canned food item for the Lowcountry Food Bank.

The Charleston RiverDogs will hold Alzheimer’s Awareness Night on Sunday at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park. Tickets purchased using the code “PURPLE” will trigger a donation to the Alzheimer’s Association.

Alice’s Clubhouse, the first medical-model memory care day center in the Lowcountry, worked with the RiverDogs to create the awareness night.

The Sept. 1 game is the second-to-last of the season and is on MUSC Health Family Sunday, meaning that kids eat free and can run the bases after the game and that parking is free.

The American Lung Association’s local celebrity fundraiser Lip Sync for Lungs Live Battle IV is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at Charleston Music Hall. Clips from last year’s event can be viewed online.

Charleston fine art photographer Jessica Yurinko is hosting Growth Begins With The Heart, an exhibit, reception and fundraiser, on Sept. 22 at S.C. Society Hall.

The reception for Charleston: A feeling not a place, will benefit Fresh Future Farm, a nonprofit farm and market providing healthy food, education, jobs and micro-entrepreneurial opportunities in a North Charleston food desert.

The farm recently succeeded in a Kickstarter fundraiser to buy its land but didn’t raise enough to convert the farm to solar power, so Yurinko is donating 10% of art sales to Fresh Future Farm.

The art exhibition will include free wine, beer and light fare, as well as a musical serenade. Prints may be purchased with or without framing and matting.

Tickets are free; a suggested donation of $10 or more will also go to Fresh Future Farm.

This summer, Charleston Promise Neighborhood was one of 23 nonprofit organizations to receive Community Enrichment Grant funding from the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina. The grants are issued to S.C. nonprofits that implement best practices to address the root causes of poverty.

Charleston Promise Neighborhood is going into its sixth year of after-school programming at Sanders-Clyde and Mary Ford elementary schools, where they serve over 250 students a day. Through these programs, children can expand their learning time with certified teachers and staff, as well as receive a hot meal before they go home for the day. They are also given the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities such as basket weaving or soccer.

The grant will aid in continuing and expanding the program.