SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC
Programs
Program 1 [2020]
For the year ended December 31, 2019, SONG operated the following programs:(i) Local Campaign Training and Organizing: In 2019, SONG trained over 200 LGBTQ leaders in four local chapters across the South in grassroots campaign organizing and intersectional methodology. Leaders in these sites launched and continued local media and organizing campaigns addressing the use of money bail and pretrial detention. Additionally, SONG members have been comparing organizing strategies and tactics to demand immigrant justice across the Southeast in response to ICE raids and the rising anti-immigrant and xenophobic political climate. Through these actions and organizing, SONG has worked to strengthen our members organizing capacity in the service of a pro-immigrant, pro-Black, and pro-LGBTQ agenda.(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 2019, SONG partnered with organizations in the Movement 4 Black Lives constellation; continued work with the National Bail Out Collective, made up of organizations working to end money bail across the country; strengthened SONGs alliance with Mijente and with the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, towards immigrant justice; and with Agitarte to develop SONGs cultural organizing strategy, as well as partnering with other local and statewide coalitions and alliances throughout the South. SONG continued its strong partnership with the Transgender Law Center supporting their work in the southern region. (iii) Regional Membership & Base-building: SONG maintains and builds a base of over 4,000 Southern LGBTQ Black people, people of color, rural, working class, and immigrant people. In 2019, 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 2,500 people locally, regionally, and nationally in intersectional analysis, visioning, strategizing, and basic principles. In 2019, SONG ran and evaluated the Fellowship program which was designed to support new Black and immigrant leaders. Also, in 2019, SONG launched the Member Initiated Projects (MIPS), where SONGs members could request up to $5,000 in mini grants to support a local project across the South. Finally, SONG continued our Black autonomous leadership development cohort, the Lordes Werq, where members learned the basics of organizing and base building while getting some much-needed rest and rejuvenation required to remain in the work. Through these programs in 2019, SONG brought leadership to intersectional organizing projects; further developed leadership within a multi-racial, intergenerational LGBTQ base; and engaged Southern LGBTQ people in projects and campaigns that directly addressed institutional and social injustice.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$4.3MLGBTQ Leadership and Organizing
For the year ended December 31, 2024, SONG operated the following programs:(i) Local Campaign Training and Organizing: In 2024, SONG continued to train LGBTQ leaders in seven local chapters across the South in grassroots campaign organizing and intersectional methodology and connect leaders building local organizing campaigns with each other. Responding to the changing conditions in 2024, leaders in local sites worked with regional staff to develop campaigns focusing on Housing & Land Liberation, Protecting the Queer & Trans Kindred, and Stopping Criminalization. Additionally, SONG members worked to evolve organizing practices in the response to climate disaster conditions which required shifts in organizing methodology and limited campaign tactics.(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 2024, SONG continued to participate as a partner in multiple coalitions including Movement 4 Black Lives, as well as partnering with other local and statewide coalitions and alliances throughout the South.SONG also continued to serve as an anchor organization along with eight other Southern movement organizations to lead the Southern Power Fund which was designed to raise and distribute resources to grassroots organizations across the South. The coalition has been anchored by four core organizations: SONG, Highlander Training Center, Alternate ROOTS, Inc., and Project South, Inc. As one of the four anchor organizations of the Southern Power Fund, SONG helped raise funds to redistribute to smaller southern organizations. (iii) Regional Membership & Base-building: SONG maintains and builds a base of more than 48,955 Southern LGBTQ Black people, people of color, rural, working class, and immigrant people. In 2024, SONG continued its work to connect and support SONGs base through general membership meetings, training and leadership development, communications work, and regional convenings. Due to continued pandemic conditions, SONGs gatherings which have been central to our work have happened virtually and in-person to support continued connection while also being mindful of our immunocompromised members and staff. We were able to engage members using online meeting tools and old school technologies like phone calls. In response to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing climate catastrophes, SONG continued to offer a member support fund and distributed funds for emergency support to SONG members and other community members in need. Through these programs in 2024, SONG brought leadership to intersectional organizing projects; further developed leadership within a multi-racial, intergenerational LGBTQ base; and engaged Southern LGBTQ people in projects and campaigns that directly addressed institutional and social injustice.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$6M
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