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...
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...
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 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...
On December 3rd, 2022, white supremacists attacked an electric grid station in Moore County, NC in response to a drag show in the county. This drag show featured performers from the Durham, NC based House of Coxx, who organize drag performances across North Carolina...
Darryl Williams, 32, was tased to death by Raleigh police on January 18 while unarmed and attempting to flee. Lovingly referred to as “Boo Boo,” Williams is one of more than 1,000 people who have been killed by police with tasers since 2000. More than 90 percent of...
Originally published in Scalawag. In the U.S. South, race is one of the most significant hurdles to our social political progress. Racialized geographies haunt our daily interactions. They are infused into our collective memory banks, dictating much of the ways we...
The attacks in Moore County, NC are just the latest in an ongoing string of attacks against the LGBTQ community, and specifically transgender and the drag communities. Recently, the Charlotte Observer reported that North Carolina is tied with Texas for the highest...
NC Truth Justice Reconciliation Statewide Summit Beloved Community Center (Greensboro, NC)On January 20, 2022, an interracial and intergenerational group of 26 grassroots, social justice, and religious leaders met in person at the First Baptist Church in Raleigh;...
