Southern Partners Fund serves rural Southeastern communities and organizations seeking racial, economic, and environmental justice. The Fund’s Hubert E. Sapp Regular Grant Cycle provides support to rural community organizations, coalitions, and networks located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia that are using grassroots organizing strategies in their fight for justice. Areas of interest include voter rights and engagement, immigration rights, and education reform, as well as environmental justice, housing reform, incarceration reform, economic justice, healthcare reform, women and girls’ leadership, disability rights, youth leadership, and LGBTQ+ rights. General support and project support are available. (Applicants with operating budgets of $350,000 or less are eligible to receive general support; applicants with operating budgets over $350,000 can apply for project support only.)
Geographic scope: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, and WV