Welcome, Secular Coalition for America Activists!

A warm welcome to Secular Coalition for America activists from the board, volunteers and staff of the Secular Student Alliance!

We are proud to add you as subscribers to the Secular Student Alliance newsletter, the eMpirical. We hope you enjoy this new resource offering updates of secular campus activities, thoughtful discussion by and about secular students, and more.

The Secular Student Alliance is an educational non-profit organization that assists atheist, agnostic, humanist, and secular high school as well as college students in establishing campus groups dedicated to freethought, human based ethics, and secular activism. We offer our affiliates travel grants to conferences, project grants to help them in their activist pursuits, an impressive speakers bureau, full-time staff support, and more.

It is our mission to secure the future of secular activism by engaging freethinking and skeptical students and providing them an alternative to the plethora of theistic organizations that pervade our educational institutions. And we're proud to say that we've been extraordinarily successful recently: currently, the SSA has 158 affiliate groups in ten countries around the globe, with 137 in the U.S. That's an increase of more than 50% in the last year, and over 300% since five years ago!

The Secular Student Alliance is one of the original founding organizations of the Secular Coalition for America. We believe in the mission of the Secular Coalition and work with their staff and board to reach like-minded students. The SSA has arranged for Secular Coalition leaders to speak at affiliated campuses about all aspects of the Coalition's work on Capitol Hill. We educate students about the positive influence of the Coalition and encourage them to participate in Action Alerts to effect positive change. By cooperating with the Secular Coalition for America in these ways, the SSA simultaneously builds leadership for a stronger secular future and injects youth into the efforts of the Secular Coalition for America.

We hope that as supporters of the Secular Coalition for America you will endow the Secular Student Alliance with your contributions as well. We are an independent organization that exists only with the help of donors from the freethought community. Each additional school we add as an affiliate depletes rather than increases financial resources so, as we continue to grow, we will need additional support from the secular community to maintain our momentum in bringing young freethinking students into secular activism. Without an educated class of atheist, agnostic and humanist activists, our desire for a government that truly separates politics from religion is unobtainable. Student or non-student, please become a voting member of the Secular Student Alliance today.

The Secular Student Alliance is a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit and your donation is entirely tax-deductible. Thank you for your kind support, and welcome to the Secular Student Alliance!