Project South the Institution for the Elimination Poverty & Genocide
Project South was founded as the Institute to Eliminate Poverty & Genocide in 1986. Our work is rooted in the legacy of the Southern Freedom Movement, and our mission of cultivating strong social movements in the South powerful enough to contend with some of the most pressing and complicated social, economic, and political problems we face today.Three Strategic Directions guide Project South’s work:1. Neighborhood Organizing to Grow Community Power2. Movement Organizing to Grow Regional Power 3. Movement Support to Grow Grassroots Leadership