Queer Mobilization Fund’s 2024 Sustainer Campaign!
That’s a wrap! 167 applications were submitted to the Queer Mobilization Fund Request for Proposals!! Now you can support Queer Organizing across the South by donating to sustain QMF’s 2025 grantee cohort! As we begin to review the amazing applications, we are...
Anita Cunningham appointed to White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
This summer, Director of SVA’s Disaster Recovery and Resilience Network, Anita Cunningham joined the White House Council of Environment Justice Advisory Committee. Membership is by presidential appointment and it is charged with providing recommendations on how to...
Freedom Schools: Who Frees Your Mind?
When you think of freedom, what do you envision? What if there was a place that could help build a path to freedom? This place is called a “Freedom School” where students gain access to vital knowledge within its walls. Freedom Schools emerged from the Mississippi...
SVA Kicks Off Power Building Cohort
Durham, N.C. - On September 8-9, 2024, Southern Vision Alliance kicked off its first-ever Power-Building Cohort. We gathered 12 grassroots leaders from the Triangle, Triad, and Eastern regions. It marked the start of an exciting six-month program to strengthen local...
When Our Movements Need More Space
A Bustling Community Space Faces a Problem As more people reached out with requests to use the teal building at 1805, it became clear that they would need to plan their meeting for several weeks out. We would look at the calendar together and simultaneously experience...
Expanding Equity: An experiment with Language Justice at a Durham, NC preschool
As the new school year starts, the staff of one Durham, NC preschool, Latino Educational Achievement Partnership (LEAP), are returning with a new approach to language within their workplace and with the families they serve. LEAP came to this new approach after...
Empowering Refugees and Low-Income Community Members in North Carolina
Approximately 13% of North Carolinians live in poverty, according to 2023 US Census Bureau statistics However, the proportion of Black (18.7%), Hispanic/Latino (20.7%), and American Indian (22.4%) populations living in poverty is much higher. A significant number of...
SVA Ecosystem Continues to Grow with Four New Sponsored Projects
This quarter SVA welcomes four new sponsored projects: Students For Justice in Palestine, Rootz, Mobilize Justice Education Fund, and Southern Organizing Brigade. Students for Justice in Palestine is a group standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for...
SVA Joins NC Long March for Unity and Justice
N.C. - Southern Vision Alliance will join with Beloved Community Center and partners on the Long March for Unity and Justice. From September 20-29, we will traverse North Carolina, from Cullowhee to Wilmington, aiming to amplify the voices of all North Carolinians...
Southern Vision Alliance Leads the Charge Against Fascism and White Supremacy at 2024 Southern Summit in Durham, NC
Durham, NC – The Southern Vision Alliance (SVA) recently concluded a sold-out transformative three-day Southern Summit in Durham, NC, uniting passionate organizers and activists from across the country in a decisive call to action against the rising threats of...
