Brighter Future Institute launches inaugural Organize NC Fellowship
This August, Brighter Future Institute, with their project Organize NC, launched a community organizing fellowship in partnership with seventeen change-making organizations across North Carolina. Brighter Future Institute aims to create synergy between grassroots...
tilde hosts Interpreting for Social Justice convening
On July 1st and 2nd, tilde Education Fund (tEF) hosted an “Interpreting for Social Justice” workshop in which twenty-one participants from across North Carolina built their skills and analysis around interpreting from a language justice lens. Most participants came...
Black Social-Emotional Learning Freedom School hosted by Dangers of the Mind Education Fund
Photo by Aniyah LoweIn July, Dangers of the Mind Education Fund, a sponsored project of Southern Vision Alliance, hosted a four-day Freedom School for Black youth in order to provide them with tools and frameworks for social- emotional learning. Through her project...
Have a Heart: Durham Beyond Policing’s successful campaign to expand unarmed crisis response in Durham
In March 2023, Durham Beyond Policing launched the Have a HEART campaign to call for the expansion of Durham Community Safety Department’s HEART Program. The HEART (Holistic Empathetic Assistance Response Team) Program, launched in June 2022, is a community response,...
Announcing: Free Movement Retreat Space for SVA Partners
The Southern Vision Alliance provides incubation, infrastructure, capacity building, coaching and technical assistance to frontline organizing projects, leadership programs and collaborations. Our purpose is to be an anchor for frontline groups and leaders to disrupt...
Actions to Affirm: A Letter to the SCOTUS
Take a second to review the life you lived so far. Think about the times you've experienced your first understanding of who you are, explored the possibilities of what you could be, and had a safe space to really just figure it out. If you're like me, you've just...
News from the Frontlines
Southern Vision Alliance is committed to resourcing innovative, bold grassroots efforts led by directly impacted communities across the U.S. South. SVA's Frontline Fund is a mini-grants program that helps groups scale-up efforts, identify best practices, and deepen a...
Movement Journalism: The Journalism We Need For Liberation
The journalism that is written today shapes tomorrow. Journalism is remembered in our history books as vital to many progressions society has made in the modern era. Journalists play an important role in their community as a source of information for their...
Queer Mobilization Fund: $100,000 for Queer Liberation
The Queer Mobilization Fund has exciting news - and an urgent appeal for your support! To meet the needs of southern LGBTQ+ organizing, we need to raise an additional $100,000 by June 2023. Since our relaunch in Spring 2020, we have been intentionally growing the...
The Queer Mobilization Fund needs your support!
The Queer Mobilization Fund steadily grew our program in 2022! We were able to increase our grantmaking by over $30k for a total of $125,470 in small grants to 23 QTBIPOC grantees across 9 states. That makes our total granting to date over $348,000 to nearly 70...
