Virginia Organizing Pushes for Equal Access to Health Care for Deaf Community
Charlottesville, Va.—Virginia Organizing leaders are working with several Central Virginia hospitals to improve services for the deaf community, which includes some basic services ...
Read More »Help fight for clean energy!
Virginia Organizing is partnering with groups to hold 10 events across the state on April 2 to take a stand in support of a bold clean power plan for Virginia. If you live in or c ...
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Aspire! Award recipient ‘Asks Big Questions’ and makes big impact on campus
BLACKSBURG, Va., March 7, 2016 – Nicole Selz has a maxim. She worked on it for over a year, honing the words to convey the meaning she so strongly believes in. It is a deceptively ...
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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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Virginia Organizing Fredericksburg Chapter to Hold Community Meeting on School Discipline Issues
What: “School to Prison Pipeline” Community Workshop When: Tuesday, February 2 at 7 p.m. Where: Lee Hall 412, University of Mary Washington (1301 College Avenue, Fredericksburg, V ...
Read More »Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients and Families: Delivering Culturally-Competent Care
Check out this great presentation from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School on how to deliver culturally-competent care for deaf and hard of hearing patients and ...
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Corporations Avoid Doing Their Part
Originally published in The Virginian-Pilot. Duke Energy may have set a new record for bad corporate behavior — it polluted a river while dodging its taxes. Duke was fined more th ...
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Group Goes Solar to ‘Lead by Example’
Written and published by VA SUN. Virginia Organizing has a long history of working with Virginians to make positive changes in the Commonwealth. It has worked on a variety of issu ...
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Interpretation and Health Care
Some of our leaders found these videos and webinars from a VRI company, Stratus Video, in Florida. The webinars are very informative and inclusive of all perspectives- patient, pr ...
Read More »Letter to the Editor: Deaf patients need special care
Originally published in the NewsLeader For the past year I have followed the progress of House Bill 1956 regarding effective communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients in ...
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