BIG Announcement from Barbara Kingsolver
We have a BIG announcement:Barbara Kingsolver will be joined on stage on Friday, April 22 at 7 p.m. at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville by award-winning television and fil ...
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Our Top Ten of 2015
Virginia Organizing has done a lot in our 20th anniversary year and it was hard to narrow our list down to just 10—but we have! Check out our Top 10 of 2015 list below. Thank you ...
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20 Years
I want to take a minute to tell you a little about the last 20 years—but don’t worry, I will be brief! For 20 years, Virginia Organizing has been organizing to dismantle racism, s ...
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Roots and Relationships: Reclaiming Community Organizing in the Obama Era
This article was first published in the Fall 2015 edition of Social Policy and appears as the prologue in Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing, availab ...
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Black Friday is Coming…
On Black Friday, millions of people will wait in lines to shop for the holidays. We’d like to offer the alternative of a gift that matters deeply and will affect thousands of live ...
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It was a BIG weekend
We had a great time celebrating our 20th anniversary at the 2015 Grassroots Gathering in Blackstone, Virginia this past weekend! Thank you to everyone who helped make this great e ...
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Help Celebrate 20 Years!
We have some news about our 2015 Grassroots Gathering – Attorney General Mark Herring has agreed to come to one of our Mass Meeting sessions! Are you registered for this monumenta ...
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U.S. Senator Warner Sends Message to Virginia Organizing
Check out this video from U.S. Senator Mark Warner on Virginia Organizing's Grassroots Gathering and 20th Anniversary! ...
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Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing Introduction
This is an excerpt from Building Power, Changing Lives: The Story of Virginia Organizing. Click here to order your copy today! In the mid-1990s, Denise Smith was living in Southwe ...
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Join us at the Grassroots Gathering!
During the weekend of October 9-11, people from every corner of the state will come together to celebrate 20 years of grassroots organizing and achievement. Come enjoy the camarad ...
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