A civic ecosystem has been burgeoning for decades in the South, and the pandemic presented an opportunity to build something different, something like prosperity and progress for all.
In 2019, Stacey Abrams founded the Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP) to lift up policies that address particular vulnerabilities in the South such as underfunded public health infrastructure, thin protections for workers, and weak supports for the unemployed, families, and children. That same year, Abrams founded Fair Count to achieve a fair and accurate count in the 2020 Census while strengthening pathways to continued civic participation. Together, SEAP and Fair Count commissioned the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) to examine data documenting the state of the South during the pandemic.
Pandemic to Prosperity was built on the idea that data and civic engagement would be critical as we charted the path to physical and economic recovery.
For more than two years, SEAP, Fair Count, and NCoC developed quarterly reports documenting the state of South through various indicators and offered insights into an equitable path to progress.
Read the reports here:
