Friend,

The challenges we faced in 2025 proved just how essential you are to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s work.

Whether we’re challenging cruel cuts to lifesaving basic needs programs, confronting hate violence or dismantling threats to American democracy, you have stood by our side every step of the way.

Below are five examples of the impact your support made in the march for justice in 2025. Each feature is a testament of the power we have when we work together to overcome hate and build stronger, more resilient communities.

— Your friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center

Your generosity helped connect Mississippians to critical resources: Thanks to you, the SPLC served and heard from those directly impacted by systemic inequities across the state.

Your help secured this legal victory: When the Alabama attorney general threatened to criminalize the Yellowhammer Fund — a reproductive justice organization helping pregnant people access legal abortion care in other states — we sued and won.

Your support helped secure a landmark victory: We stopped the shutdown of the Job Corps program — a lifeline for low-income students across the country.

You’re defending people from cruel cuts to basic needs programs: With your support, the SPLC is helping people like Tina — who was denied lifesaving health care coverage — by addressing systemic failures.

Your advocacy is preserving a legacy: How the SPLC is protecting Sapelo Island’s Gullah-Geechee community, now on the brink as the world encroaches.

Thank you for making this work possible, Friend.