The Southern Education Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation created in 1937 from four different funds — the Peabody Education Fund, the John F Slater Fund, the Negro Rural School Fund, and the Virginia Randolph Fund.[1] Their main goal is to promote quality education for traditionally disadvantaged students, including the poor and African Americans. States in the SEF include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Kent McGuire is the current president.[2]