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The Southern Economic Association (SEA) is a collective of economics scholars who study economic problems in the American south and beyond. It also engages in advocacy work, principally to broadcast its economic studies and analyses to the wider public.
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The Southern Education Foundation (SEF) is a left-of-center education activist organization that is focused on education in the American South, especially for Black Americans. The foundation is the result of various mergers by education funds dating back to the period following the American Civil War. SEF is staunchly opposed to
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The Southern Elections Fund is a progressive organization which seeks to empower liberal candidates for office in the South.
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Southern Elections Fund (SEF) is a left-progressive organization which seeks to mobilize Black voters and elect left-progressive candidates for office in the South. 14 SEF was originally
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The Southern Engagement Funs is a now-defunct left-of-center activist group that focused on get-out-the-vote efforts in southern states and opposed what it considered to be voter suppression with voter ID laws and citizenship tests. It has been inactive since the end of 2017, though its president, Marvin Rudolph, listed his
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The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) is a left-of-center litigation group that opposes energy infrastructure projects in the southeastern United States. It receives substantial funding from the Foundation for the Carolinas and other left-of-center environmentalist institutional grantmakers. SELC has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy in Georgia,
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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. 93
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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. 94 SPF runs the
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a controversial left-of-center advocacy group that claims to be a 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.
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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 calls itself a “grassroots intermediary,” acting as an incubator and fiscal sponsor for other left-of-center groups. 244 The organization
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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 Children Program. The organization also operates a network of charter schools in Texas called Promesa Public Schools.
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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.
