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Since 1993, SONG has been known, both regionally and nationally, for organizing and training work across issues of race, class, gender and sexuality with both LGBTQ people and allies. SONG works to build and maintain a Southern LGBTQ infrastructure for organizers strong enough to combat the Southern-specific strategy of the Right to divide and conquer Southern oppressed communities. 6 6 25 450 0 2539495 3494308 0 1179 -131203 600 27000 2541274 3390105 1034570 3409500 0 1634454 1957013 0 221681 1510325 2420728 4179349 7787241 -1638075 -4397136 23004351 19100529 161192 152442 22843159 18948087 Southerners on New Ground, Inc. (SONG) is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. SONG builds, sustains, and connects a southern regional base of LBGTQ people in order to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns developed in response to the current conditions in the communities. SONG builds this movement through leadership development, intersectional analysis, and organizing. Since 1993, SONG has been known, both regionally and nationally, for organizing and training work across issues of race, class, gender and sexuality with both LGBTQ people and allies. SONG works to build and maintain a Southern LGBTQ infrastructure for organizers strong enough to combat the Southern-specific strategy of the Right to divide and conquer Southern oppressed communities. false false 5968441 3409500 For the year ended December 31, 2024, SONG operated the following programs:(i) Local Campaign Training and Organizing: In 2024, SONG continued to train LGBTQ leaders in seven local chapters across the South in grassroots campaign organizing and intersectional methodology and connect leaders building local organizing campaigns with each other. Responding to the changing conditions in 2024, leaders in local sites worked with regional staff to develop campaigns focusing on Housing & Land Liberation, Protecting the Queer & Trans Kindred, and Stopping Criminalization. Additionally, SONG members worked to evolve organizing practices in the response to climate disaster conditions which required shifts in organizing methodology and limited campaign tactics.(ii) Coalition and Alliance Work: SONG brings LGBTQ leadership, expertise, and visibility to key racial and economic justice alliances and organizing fights in the South and incubates collaborative work that helps to connect bases and shared priorities. In 2024, SONG continued to participate as a partner in multiple coalitions including Movement 4 Black Lives, as well as partnering with other local and statewide coalitions and alliances throughout the South.SONG also continued to serve as an anchor organization along with eight other Southern movement organizations to lead the Southern Power Fund which was designed to raise and distribute resources to grassroots organizations across the South. The coalition has been anchored by four core organizations: SONG, Highlander Training Center, Alternate ROOTS, Inc., and Project South, Inc. As one of the four anchor organizations of the Southern Power Fund, SONG helped raise funds to redistribute to smaller southern organizations. (iii) Regional Membership & Base-building: SONG maintains and builds a base of more than 48,955 Southern LGBTQ Black people, people of color, rural, working class, and immigrant people. In 2024, SONG continued its work to connect and support SONGs base through general membership meetings, training and leadership development, communications work, and regional convenings. Due to continued pandemic conditions, SONGs gatherings which have been central to our work have happened virtually and in-person to support continued connection while also being mindful of our immunocompromised members and staff. We were able to engage members using online meeting tools and old school technologies like phone calls. In response to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing climate catastrophes, SONG continued to offer a member support fund and distributed funds for emergency support to SONG members and other community members in need. 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