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  • Preston Graves | New River Valley Organizer

    Preston Graves | New River Valley Organizer

    Preston joined Virginia Organizing as the New River Valley organizer in September 2025. He is a native of Southwest Virginia, growing up and living in Christiansburg. He has extens ...

  • Leader of the Month – August 2025

    Leader of the Month – August 2025

    Janice "Jay" Johnson - Newport News/Hampton Chapter Jay Johnson has been a torchbearer of Virginia Organizing for 30 years. She was a founding member of the State Governing Board, ...

  • New River Valley Field Day Fundraiser

    New River Valley Field Day Fundraiser

    New River Valley Field Day FundraiserSaturday, October 11, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.Eastern Montgomery Park5003 Enterprise Dr., Elliston, VA 24087 Virginia Organizing New River Valley invit ...

  • Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – September 2025

    Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – September 2025

    Keep calm and cider on with your Peninsula Chapter this fall!  May you and your family be well as the fall season begins. Carve out some time with your Peninsula Chapter! This ...

Group Comes Up With Ways For Duke Energy To Address Coal Ash Spill Issues, Now Up For Public Review

Group Comes Up With Ways For Duke Energy To Address Coal Ash Spill Issues, Now Up For Public Review

One of Virginia Organizing's leaders, David Wilson, was featured in this story. To watch the full story at WSET, please click here. Danville, VA-- Thousands of tons of coal ash ha ...

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Rallying Point: Virginia Organizing Celebrates Two Decades in the Trenches

Rallying Point: Virginia Organizing Celebrates Two Decades in the Trenches

Virginia Organizing was featured as one of five non-profits in Cville Weekly on May 6, 2015 to honor our 20th anniversary.  On a bulletin board in Virginia Organizing’s headquarte ...

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Agency that got its start in SWVa. celebrates two decades of success

Agency that got its start in SWVa. celebrates two decades of success

BY ALLIE ROBINSON GIBSON | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ABINGDON, Va. — In 1994, a community organizer came across the border from Kentucky into Southwest Virginia and started talking t ...

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More on the Magnificent Monarch

More on the Magnificent Monarch

First, it is important to note that without the help of the Monarch Butterfly, a key pollinator, our food production could be damaged beyond repair. Our efforts, then, to bolster ...

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The Magnificent Monarch

The Magnificent Monarch

The Monarch Butterfly—how magnificent! For such a small and almost weightless creature, the Monarch Butterfly has tremendous energy and endurance. Year after year, they travel abo ...

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Getting Things Done in Virginia

Getting Things Done in Virginia

Originally posted by Veer Magazine on March 31, 2015. Most of us often feel frustrated and powerless as individuals regarding issues that affect us. We can sometimes feel utterly ...

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45 years of Earth Day!

45 years of Earth Day!

With each passing year more and more attention is being directed to our Earth and Her wellbeing. Vital progress has been made in the last 15 years, but there is much more work to ...

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Opinion/Letter: Medicaid expansion benefits Va.

Opinion/Letter: Medicaid expansion benefits Va.

Originally posted in the Daily Progress on April 14, 2015. Re: “Bell, Toscano speak on ABC, Medicaid expansion, sexual assault…” (April 8, The Daily Progress online) about Del. Ro ...

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Fredericksburg Chapter of Virginia Organizing to Celebrate the ACA, Call on State Legislators to Expand Medicaid

Fredericksburg Chapter of Virginia Organizing to Celebrate the ACA, Call on State Legislators to Expand Medicaid

What: Gathering to celebrate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and call on legislators to expand Medicaid When: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. Where: Fredericksburg Christian H ...

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Protesters Rally for Medicaid Expansion

Protesters Rally for Medicaid Expansion

Originally posted on Newsplex.com on April 8, 2015. ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA (NEWSPLEX) -- About a dozen people came together Wednesday to push for Medicaid expansion in the state of ...

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