Precisely the Sort of Thing that Makes Editing Take Forever

So, my stupid paper is largely about a leftist, Marxist, socialist (of course) group of scientists called "Science for the People." In order to not have to type out S-c-i-e-n-c-e- -f-o-r- -t-h-e- -P-e-o-p-l-e 87 times over the course of the paper, I abbreviate this as "SftP."

The problem: "SftP" is acting as a sort of stand in pronoun for the collective of people, like "group" or, yeah, "collective." So it's a singular noun.

But SftP notoriously acted as a bunch of people, not as a singular entity, especially in their writing. So my paper has sentences like this:

"SftP relied on their conception of the lay audience to determine the best means of convincing the public that their position was correct."

Which feels very natural, like "The Utah Jazz win the game" or "The Heat are dominating the Celtics." Unfortunately, these are not single syllable faux-plural basketball words. SftP is a singular noun. So it should probably read:

"SftP relied on its conception of the lay audience to determine the best means of convincing the public that its position was correct."

I will now go dig through 28 pages and replace the relevant pronouns. Sigh.

(On top of this is the don't-even-get-me-started-factor that the text and the rhetoric, being extant entities, *do* certain things, while the people that *wrote* them *did* them. Attack of the killer verb tense).

(And if you were wondering, yes, this is why i don't post while I'm writing papers).

UPDATE
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Okay, nix that. I just came across this sentence:

"It is true enough that SftP utilized an emotional rhetoric because they thought the topic was important..."

and I can't bring myself to write "it thought" there. "It" can have conceptions and an argument, but "it" cannot think.¹ So we're back to the original with a footnoted disclaimer about bad grammar. I am a nerd.

¹ "Open the pod bay doors, Hal." "I can't do that, Dave." to the contrary.