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  • Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – June 2025

    Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – June 2025

    Have a sun-sational summer with your Peninsula chapter and join us for our upcoming events in Newport News and Hampton! We're moving the needle on local issues like housing, educat ...

  • Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Dreame Boyd - Richmond Chapter Dreame is an active and contributing member to the Richmond Chapter and the statewide Housing Strategy Committee. She has participated in several wor ...

  • Keeping Communities Safe in Halifax/South Boston

    Keeping Communities Safe in Halifax/South Boston

    On May 12, our Halifax/South Boston Chapter held a Day Without Child Care event that recognized the importance of child care and early childhood education for parents, providers, a ...

  • Albemarle/Charlottesville Chapter Update – May 2025

    Albemarle/Charlottesville Chapter Update – May 2025

    It’s been a while since our Chapter posted an online update, but we’ve been busy since our last update! Since October, we’ve met regularly every month, bringing us to our 8th chapt ...

Call to action after Virginia Organizing and other groups make presentations to Lynchburg School Board meeting on February 5

Call to action after Virginia Organizing and other groups make presentations to Lynchburg School Board meeting on February 5

At the Lynchburg School Board on February 5, Virginia Organizing and other groups presented comments about the high rate of school suspensions and the policies that restrict forme ...

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Time for UVA to Pay a Living Wage!

Time for UVA to Pay a Living Wage!

Virginia Organizing Board member Lily Hungarland recently wrote this letter to the Cavalier Daily about the poverty wages workers are paid at the University of Virginia. The lette ...

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Leader Tyran Green Briefs Congressional Staff on Underfunding of IDEA

Leader Tyran Green Briefs Congressional Staff on Underfunding of IDEA

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools hosted a briefing for U.S. House staffers on January 25, 2019, focused on their report, Confronting the Education Debt.  The briefing highlight ...

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LaVerne Jackson – January/February 2019 Leader of the Month

LaVerne Jackson – January/February 2019 Leader of the Month

  Originally from Ohio, LaVerne Jackson moved to Virginia because of her husband’s military assignment here. She raised her children and worked as a nurse in pediatric health ...

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Brian Johns Named Coverage Health Advocate of the Year by Families USA

Brian Johns Named Coverage Health Advocate of the Year by Families USA

From Families USA on Monday, January 21, 2019: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today Families USA announced that Brian Johns is the winner of its Coverage Consumer Health Advocate of the Year ...

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Letter: Time to rein in predatory lenders

Letter: Time to rein in predatory lenders

Published by the Danville Register and Bee. Time to rein in predatory lenders To the editor: Recently, I attended a community forum about predatory lending organized by Virginia O ...

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Suspension Rates at Danville Public Schools Among Worst in State: One in Five K-12 Students Suspended

Suspension Rates at Danville Public Schools Among Worst in State: One in Five K-12 Students Suspended

Danville, Va.—The Danville Chapter of Virginia Organizing is calling on the Danville Public Schools administration to address the suspensions crisis in city schools. In a recent r ...

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Progress for School Fairness in Lynchburg

Progress for School Fairness in Lynchburg

The Lynchburg Chapter of Virginia Organizing has been organizing for alternatives to school suspension for some time and their hard work is helping to make change happen! Last nig ...

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A new world for all of us!

A new world for all of us!

Please join me in supporting Virginia Organizing. Your year-end donation will help us work to stop the evictions and create affordable housing in the City of Fredericksburg and th ...

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The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Virginia Organizing

The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Virginia Organizing

I joined the Portsmouth Chapter of Virginia Organizing two years ago because a friend of mine told me I could get help for my son there. He was suspended and threatened with expul ...

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