SMHA has stood the test of time, from our founding in 1969 as a grassroots organizing and advocacy organization, to our present as one of the most highly recognized rural community development corporations in the nation, to our future as “visioner” of innovative strategies and solutions, convener of likely and unlikely partners, and catalyst for a new way of doing community and economic development in the Gulf region.

Click here to learn more about SMHA’s vision of being an “Agent of Change” in the rural South. The Agent of Change piece was written by SMHA’s co-founders, Sister Anne Catherine Bizalion, Lorna Bourg, and Henry Pelet, a sugar mill worker and former President of the local labor union.