SONG Southerners On New Ground Durham, North Carolina Founded by black and white southern lesbians, the purpose of Southerners On New Ground (SONG) is to connect race, class, culture, gender and sexual orientation to help build movement for progressive social change. SONG integrates work against racism, sexism and economic injustice into lesbigaytrans organizing and anti-homophobia work into freedom struggles in the South. SONG was formed to help build understanding of the connections between oppressions and action steps for doing multi-issue organizing. We operate from the understanding that there is no liberation, not even survival, in isolation. SONG works in local communities in twelve states of the southeast, providing an important regional infrastructure for building progressive lesbigaytrans organizing particularly in the traditionally conservative, under-resourced south. SONG serves southern organizers who want to do multi-issue, cross- constituency organizing and build alliances across different identities. With lgbt organizers, we intentionally prioritize those who are under-represented in movement work; rural/small town, women, young people, people of color and poor/working class. We focus on people who want to move within an anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-classist framework and seek skills and information on how to do that.
Refuge House Tallahassee, Florida 24-hour hotline: 850-681-2111 www.tfn.net/RefugeHouse/ The mission of Refuge House is to provide direct services to battered women, their children and sexual assault survivors, as well as to work to eliminate the conditions in society that allow such violence to continue. We are available to listen, to care and understand, to talk to others on your behalf, to discuss your opinions with you, to be there when you are hurting, and to help when you are healing. Refuge House provides: Emergency shelter 24-hour hotline Counseling programs Injunction assistance Sexual violence program Volunteer opportunities		Project Safe Athens, Georgia 24-hour hotline: 706-543-3331 Project Safe began as a network of volunteer safe homes with a hotline to provide emergency phone assistance for victims of domestic abuse. As community awareness and resources grew, a shelter was established for women seeking emergency refuge from violent partners. Services have evolved, so that Project Safe today serves as a resource to the community in multiple ways. Prevention, education, and outreach services are now important components of the work we do. Our services include: 24-hour emergency shelter 24-hour hotline Support groups in the shelter Support groups in the community Advocacy Aftercare program Services coordination among agencies Information and referral Volunteer training Community education Group presentations All services are confidential and free of charge.

logo design	a k mitchell
website design	christine regan  &  a k mitchell