We made a big push in our first month to build the SPI coalition, with 246 groups now having joined! And now we’re turning our attention to engaging with member groups. We want to hear your project proposals and brainstorm about how we can help. And we hope you’ll join our coordinating phone calls and strategic planning for the secular movement. We have some great campaigns coming up.
Even though our big push is over, this week we added two new national groups! Our first New Zealand group is the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists and also joining is neighbor Australian Skeptics.
Coalition member Kasese Humanist Primary School in Uganda is founding BiZoHa Orphanage, the world’s first atheist orphanage. Just $4,500 will house and feed 20 orphans for a year, and they then plan to be economically self-sufficient by growing their own food. You can fund them at GoFundMe.
Another coalition member, the United Coalition of Reason, has a new executive director! Congratulations to Dr. Jason Heap! Heap’s world travels over the past 15 years has put him in touch first-hand with a vast array of sincerely-held beliefs, such as Daoism, Shintoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. He attended and took degrees from Howard Payne University, Brite Divinity SchoolÔÇöTexas Christian University, the University of Oxford (UK), and Sheffield Hallam University (UK).
You’ll find 41 national-level groups now amongst the 246 members on the SPI Coalition Page.