# Society for American Civic Renewal **SACR** is a men-only, Christian-only fraternal order founded by **[[Charles Haywood]]** in **Carmel, Indiana** on **July 22, 2020**, incorporated as a **501(c)(10)** — the tax code's fraternal-beneficiary category. Its stated purpose is to build an **"aligned future regime"** by placing vetted members into positions of local and institutional power. ## Structure and stated aims From internal documents obtained by *[[Talking Points Memo]]* in early 2024 and from the group's own materials: | Element | Detail | |---|---| | Membership | Men only; Christian identity requirement; invitation and vetting | | Organization | Local chapters, with a founding board | | External aim | Civic renewal, framed in unobjectionable fraternal-order language | | Internal aim | An "aligned future regime"; leadership "more broadly distributed" through school boards, city councils, business and civic organizations | | Member benefit | Explicit preferential treatment in hiring and promotion among members | The gap between the external and internal mission statements is the substance of the reporting: the public face is a Rotary Club and the private one is a placement network. ## Who is in it The group operated largely unnoticed until **2023**, when *The Guardian* identified Haywood as its principal officer. Publicly confirmed figures include: - **[[Charles Haywood]]** — founder and principal officer - **Ryan Williams** — president/CEO of the **[[Claremont Institute]]**, who publicly confirmed founding-board membership, writing: "I am proud to be one of the founding board members of the Society for American Civic Renewal. May 1,000 chapters bloom and flourish." - **Scott Yenor** — Boise State political scientist and Claremont fellow, board member - **[[Nate Fischer]]** — [[New Founding]] chief executive; president of SACR's **Dallas chapter** Reporting also places venture capitalists and Republican donors in the membership, which the group does not publish. ## KB significance — the human infrastructure SACR is the **personnel layer** of the [[Christian Network State]] map the vault already carries. Set against its siblings: - **[[New Founding]]** builds the economic and media infrastructure. - **[[Highland Rim Project]]** and comparable ventures build the physical and territorial infrastructure. - **SACR identifies, vets, and advances the men** who staff both. The [[Claremont Institute]] overlap is the load-bearing detail. Claremont is a respectable-address think tank with a presidential-administration pipeline; two of its senior figures sitting on the founding board of a secret order aimed at an "aligned regime" is precisely the *absorption without resistance* that [[Erick Erickson]] described in **September 2026** when he named Haywood in "The Midwestern Führerbunker Driving the Right Off the Cliff." ## See Also - [[Charles Haywood]] · [[Nate Fischer]] · [[Erick Erickson]] - [[Claremont Institute]] · [[New Founding]] · [[Highland Rim Project]] · [[Rockbridge Network]] - [[Christian Network State]] · [[Christian Nationalism]] · [[Theobros]]