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# Institute for Southern Studies
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/institute-for-southern-studies/
- Published: 1999-01-02T18:18:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-02T23:20:02.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

The **Institute for Southern Studies** is an American nonprofit organization based in Durham, North Carolina.

## Team

| Name       | Position                                    | Notes                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Alex Kotch | Research Associate (2014-2016)[\[1\]](#fn1) | [OptOut Media Foundation](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/OptOut-Media-Foundation), [Center for Media and Democracy](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Center-for-Media-and-Democracy) |

## Funding

The Institute has received funding from:[\[2\]](#fn2)[\[3\]](#fn3)

- Arca Foundation
- CarEth Foundation
- Civil Justice Foundation
- Educational Foundation of America
- Ford Foundation
- Fund for Constitutional Government
- Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ)
- Funding Exchange
- Gulf Coast Fund of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
- Hill-Snowdon Foundation
- Jewish Funds for Justice
- Marguerite Casey Foundation[\[4\]](#fn4)
- Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation (MRBF)
- Mertz Gilmore Foundation
- Nation Institute
- New World Foundation
- Open Society Foundations
- Oxfam America
- Peace Development Fund (PDF)
- Public Welfare Foundation (PWF)
- Rappaport Family Fund
- Sapelo Foundation
- Skyline Public Works
- Tides Foundation
- Town Creek Foundation
- Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock
- Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

## External links

- [InfluenceWatch](https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/institute-for-southern-studies/)
- [Website](https://www.southernstudies.org/)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%5Ffor%5FSouthern%5FStudies)

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1. *Experience | Alex Kotch.* LinkedIn. Retrieved October 24, 2023, from <http://archive.today/2023.10.24-233023/https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-kotch-1a862718/details/experience/> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *Home.* The Institute for Southern Studies. Retrieved October 21, 2023, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20231021081821/https://www.southernstudies.org/> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. *Support The Institute.* Institute of Southern Studies. Retrieved December 7, 2008, from <http://archive.today/2008.12.07-030545/http://www.southernstudies.org/iss/supporters.html> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. Marguerite Casey Foundation. (2014). *Return of Private Foundation - Form 990PF.* Internal Revenue Service. <https://web.archive.org/web/20231024230418/https://pp-990.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2016%5F01%5FPF/91-2062197%5F990PF%5F201412.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA266MJEJYTM5WAG5Y%2F20231024%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4%5Frequest&X-Amz-Date=20231024T224830Z&X-Amz-Expires=1800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=089eb3357bfb88ed996f3eb11fa6f4c5d601742049ff88edaba99c953cb76d0b> [↩︎](#fnref4)