Southern Partners Fund

The Southern Partners Fund supports community organizing in the rural Southeastern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia). The organizations and projects that we fund strive for progressive fundamental change; with the belief that it is the birthright of every American to enjoy basic rights, privileges and a quality of life, to be preserved and to create a legacy for future generations. SPF currently operates three major grants programs. Through the Regular Grants Cycle, SPF awards grants annually to organizations in the rural South to support social, economic, and environmental justice. Although we support program-specific requests, the majority of our grants are awarded as general operating support. SPF's technical assistance/travel/discretionary grants program awards grants annually to support organizational capacity-building, staff and board leadership skills, and travel to conferences and workshops to build knowledge and relationships between isolated organizations actively engaged in similar issues. Through the Justice Fund for Disaster Relief and Renewal, SPF provides modest support to organizations located within our geographic granting area of the Southeast. We provide resources for movement building with those directly and indirectly affected by hurricanes and other natural disasters, and support strategies leading to changes in public policy. To be considered for support through any of our grant programs, organizations must be rural community groups in the Southeastern United States, self-governed by members of the targeted rural population, and organizing on issues of social, economic and environmental justice that enables community members to become decision-makers.