SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE

Empowering Secular Students for Lifelong Activism

aka SSA   |   Los Angeles, CA   |  www.secularstudents.org

Mission

The Secular Student Alliance empowers secular students to proudly express their identity, build welcoming communities, promote secular values, and set a course for lifelong activism.

We envision a future in which secular students lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, thrive as valued members of society, and provide visionary leadership committed to humanistic ideals and critical inquiry.

Ruling year info

2014

Executive Director

Kevin Bolling

Main address

P.O. Box 411477

Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA

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EIN

41-1967141

NTEE code info

Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (R01)

Civil Rights, Advocacy for Specific Groups (R20)

Minority Rights (R22)

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Affiliate Program

As valuable as a national community is, there’s nothing like a local community. Campus groups play an enormous role in shaping student life. Campuses usually financially support these groups, as campus groups are a key component of student life at high schools and colleges. SSA campus affiliate groups provide an astoundingly powerful way to normalize secular identity and advance secular values on campuses all over the country.

By providing the student leaders of these groups the tools they need to strengthen their groups, we empower them as activists and enable them to make lasting change. These groups give community to secular students, allowing them to advocate for secular issues, engage in service projects, and educate their campuses on the positive aspects of secularism.They also provide student leaders with the experiences necessary to be outspoken secular leaders for the rest of their lives.

In addition to educational materials, promotional materials, a Speakers Bureau, and hundreds of pages of Group Running Resources, we offer hands on help from staffers who are intimately familiar with how to grow communities and make a big splash on campus.

Population(s) Served

To keep the national Secular Student Alliance organization effective for individual student groups, it has been necessary to specify the organization into smaller, manageable units. Regionalization offers a simple way for the Secular Student Alliance to do this, and provide more hands on support for our affiliate groups.

Population(s) Served

While working with affiliate groups is crucial to build communities on campuses, it is also important to support and recognize the work individual student activists, who do not or cannot for an affiliate group, are doing.

We empower these students by offering free memberships to the national organization, offering grants and scholarships, and running the Secular Safe Zone.

Secular students are often bullied or harassed by their peers. In order to stem this tide of discrimination and alienation, the Secular Safe Zone is working to build a network of Allies to provide community and support to non-theists around the nation. To accomplish this, the Secular Safe Zone program trains Allies and Facilitators to create safe spaces for non-theists and encourage acceptance, understanding, and tolerance. Allies are also trained to recognize and respond to issues of discrimination, harassment, and bullying that non-theists may come up against.

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The Secular Student Alliance seeks to empower students and student communities serving secular individuals across the United States. We want everyone to have a safe space to be free from prejudice and bullying because of their beliefs, and wish to help students become better activists.

We seek to empower students by building a grassroots network of secular activists on campuses across the United States.

We have a team of three Campus Organizing staff members at the national level to work with individual students and with affiliate groups.

We currently have over 250 affiliate groups at high schools and colleges across the country, and over 3,000 individual student members.

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SECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE

Board of directors
as of 07/21/2017
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Evan Clark

Secular Student Alliance

Term: 2015 -

Alex DiBranco

Harry Shaughnessy

Sarah Henry

Matthew Bulger

Jennifer Ibrahim

Georgina Capetillo

Kayla Bowen

Kayley Whalen

Alice Davenport

Claire Vinyard

Mai-Lynne Diebel

Lincoln Dow