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The Southern Equality Fund (SEF) is part of the larger Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE). The SEF provides grant money to LGBT interests, registers voters, advocates for codifying Supreme Court decisions promoting social-liberal policy outcomes, and seeks to expand left-of-center political power in the southern United States. Southern Equality
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Southern Gas Association (SGA) is a national trade association that represents companies within the natural gas industry with a focus on operations in the southern United States. The association describes itself as the only natural gas industry association that represents all segments of the industry.
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The Southern Organizing Working Group is an grassroots network that promotes growing social justice advocacy within the southern region of the United States. 1
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Southern Partners Fund (SPF) is an Atlanta-based foundation and grantmaking organization that has given more than $20,000,000 to left-of-center activist organizations in the American South since its founding in 1998. 1 SPF runs the
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a controversial watchdog of extremist groups. It has been criticized for its financial practices and for characterizing non-violent conventional conservative organizations as equivalent to violent extremists. SPLC was co-founded in 1971 by Morris Dees, a lawyer and direct marketing expert and fellow
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The Southern Renewable Energy Association is a trade association that lobbies to promote the expansion and public funding of wind and solar energy projects in the southeastern United States. The organization’s work is often focused on providing technical comments to state public utility commissions, which regulate public utilities, to urge
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The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is a left-of-center environmentalist organization founded in the 1980s to oppose any sort of commercialization or energy production in the “desert wildlands” of Utah, collectively known as “America’s redrock wilderness.” While it is a Utah-based group, the group also operates a Washington, D.C. office and
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The Southern Vision Alliance is a left-of-center advocacy organization based in Durham, North Carolina. The organization serves as an incubator for left-wing organizing targeted at young people. The organization also serves as a fiscal sponsor for other far-left organizations. The organization has alleged ties to the communist Workers World Party;
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Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is an LGBT advocacy group which has branched out into general progressive left-of-center advocacy. It was founded in 1993 at the annual national conference of the National LGBTQ Task Force to provide support to LGBT groups in the southeast United States. In 2017, SONG
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The Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) is an organization which promotes greater energy efficiency in the Southwestern part of the United States.
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Southwest Key Programs is an Austin, Texas-based grantee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Unaccompanied Alien Children program. The organization also operates a network of charter schools in Texas called Promesa Public Schools. The organization was founded in 1987 by Dr. Juan Sanchez. In more recent years,
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The Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) is a left-of-center community-building group based in the southwestern United States focused on New Mexico. SWOP advocates for environmentalism, abortion access, leniency in criminal justice, and other left-of-center policy goals among racial minorities.
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Not to be confused with Southwest Organizing Project, a New Mexico-based environmentalist coalition. The Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) is a left-of-center community organizing group based in southwestern Chicago, Illinois. As of April 2024, SWOP has 43 member organizations, primarily consisting of schools, health centers, and religious organizations.
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Sovereignty International is a non-profit organization which focuses on threats to national sovereignty in the United States.
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Spark Camp is a community-based organization that invites attendees to take part in an “unconference” setting to discuss specific topics including communication, philanthropy, and leadership. 1
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Spark Climate Solutions (Spark) is an environmentalist organization supporting left-of-center climate change policies. It was founded in October 2021 with an initial focus on methane removal and methane reduction. It works with others in the climate change field on research and development, building a network of climate change scientists, funding
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Spark Freedom provided strategic planning, coaching, branding, and other communications consultant services to right-of-center non-profit groups. 1 It appears that the groups is no longer operational as of October
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SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that advocates on sexuality and gender issues and promotes access to abortion in the Southern United States.
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The Sparkplug Foundation is a left-wing grant making organization that assists start-up and smaller left-of-center groups. 1 Sparkplug Foundation has provided support to anti-Israel groups that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement
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Speak Out Central New York (Speak Out CNY) is a now-defunct project of the left-of-center Sixteen Thirty Fund, a funding and fiscal sponsorship organization managed by the Washington, D.C.-based consultancy Arabella Advisors. Speak Out CNY was used to funnel advertising money during the 2018 midterm elections against U.S. Representatives
