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- EIN 61-1274170
- (404) 549-8628
- 561 W Whitehall St Sw Atlanta GA 30310-1935 USA
- http://southernersonnewground.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Civil Rights, Lesbian & Gay Rights, LGBTQ
Mission: Southerners on new ground, inc. (song) is a home for lgbtq liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the south. Song builds, sustains, and connects a southern regional base of lbgtq people in order to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns developed in response to the current conditions in the communities. Song builds this movement through leadership development, intersectional analysis, and organizing. Since 1993, song has been known, both regionally and nationally, for organizing and training work across issues of race, class, gender and sexuality with both lgbtq people and allies. Song works to build and maintain a southern lgbtq infrastructure for organizers strong enough to combat the southern-specific strategy of the right to divide and conquer southern oppressed communities.
Programs: For the year ended december 31, 2014, song operated the following programs:(i)local campaign training and organizing: in 2014, song trained over 80 lgbtq leaders in four local sites across the south in grassroots campaign organizing and intersectional methodology. Leaders in these sites launched local media and organizing campaigns addressing problems of gentrification, criminalization, and unfair policies that would negatively impact lgbtq youth. Additionally, as part of the not one more deportation campaign, song brought leadership, expertise, and visibility into several local actions. These actions, along with regional communications and political education work brought southern lgbtq people into the fight against unfair immigration policies and the increased policing of immigrant people, along with securing the main demand of the campaign, an administrative relief solution. (ii)coalition and alliance work: song brings lgbtq leadership, expertise, and visibility to key racial and economic justice alliances and organizing fights in the south, and incubates collaborative work that helps to connect bases and shared priorities. In 2014, song partnered with the following organizations: the va anti-violence project, southeast immigrant rights network (seirn), project south, the southern movement assembly, the not1more deportation campaign, the moral monday alliance, black lives matter, get your rights network, its bigger than you, as well as other local and statewide coalitions and alliances throughout the south. (iii)regional membership & base-building: song maintains and builds a base of over 3,500 southern lgbtq people of color, rural, working class, and immigrant people. In 2014, song worked to connect and support songs base through general membership convenings, training and leadership development, communications work, and regional convenings, including song's gaycation and bayard rustin people of color gathering. Song held workshops, trainings, popular education sessions, and presentations throughout the year which engaged over 1,500 people locally, regionally, and nationally in intersectional analysis, visioning, strategizing, and basic principles.