Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice

The mission of Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice is to:

• Nourish the internal capacity of women to take responsibility for their own lives, personally and externally;
• Engage women in advocacy and policy initiatives that redirect local, state and federal resources to help ensure women’s full participation and access to economic and social justice;
• Develop an asset based economic development strategy that invests in women and communities for a long term strategy of lifting women out of poverty;
• Build organizational capacity within the region to sustain this work; and
• Connect with women’s groups committed to human rights, and economic and social justice.