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  • Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    To be without an ID in the United States is to be illegible to the state, which can mean tumbling into a netherworld of nonexistence, locked out of basic services like jobs, housin ...

  • 30th Anniversary Grassroots Gathering

    30th Anniversary Grassroots Gathering

    We are excited about what’s in store for our 30th Anniversary Grassroots Gathering in September! So, all throughout the summer we will be sharing information about what to expect, ...

  • 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 ...

Help End the Legacy of Slavery at UVA

Help End the Legacy of Slavery at UVA

Please share this flyer with friends all over Virginia! Help End the Legacy of Slavery at UVA.   From the flyer: Tell UVA President Jim Ryan that the University of Virginia m ...

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Connect with your transgender and allied neighbors at TIES!

Connect with your transgender and allied neighbors at TIES!

Join us for the 5th annual TIES! This year at a new location! TIES brings hundreds of folks together for a conference designed to meet the interests and needs of transgender indiv ...

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Grassroots Gathering 2018! Registration Now Open, New Workshops!

Grassroots Gathering 2018! Registration Now Open, New Workshops!

Register here for the Grassroots Gathering 2018. We have a special guest with us Friday evening and Saturday morning: Heather Booth, the founder of Midwest Academy. New workshops ...

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Medicaid Expansion Celebrations!

Medicaid Expansion Celebrations!

We held nine celebrations around the Commonwealth after the General Assembly voted to expand Medicaid in their special budget session this spring. We also plan to spread the word ...

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Virginia Will Expand Medicaid at Last! (Message from Chairperson Del McWhorter)

Virginia Will Expand Medicaid at Last! (Message from Chairperson Del McWhorter)

On May 30, Virginia expanded Medicaid! Virginia Organizing members have worked to bring affordable health care to all Virginians for more than 10 years. Let’s celebrate this victo ...

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We need to have Medicaid expansion in Virginia!

We need to have Medicaid expansion in Virginia!

Virginia Organizing supporter and volunteer, Dave Redding has some good questions for our senators: We need to have Medicaid expansion in Virginia! One repeated argument in opposi ...

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Join us in Richmond on May 29 for Medicaid Expansion Rally

Join us in Richmond on May 29 for Medicaid Expansion Rally

(Image: Eunice Haigler, Virginia Organizing leader from Fredericksburg at a May 22 Medicaid Expansion rally in Richmond.) The General Assembly is on the verge of passing Medicaid ...

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Washington Post features Virginia Organizing Leader, Terry White

Washington Post features Virginia Organizing Leader, Terry White

Terry White, known to his friends as "Bean," tells his story about needing affordable health care in this Washington Post piece by Laura Vozzella. Thank you for speaking out, Bean ...

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Expand Medicaid to Help Treat Opioid Addiction

Expand Medicaid to Help Treat Opioid Addiction

Virginia Organizing supporter Eric Blevins in Marion, Virginia writes in the Richmond Times Dispatch about his journey to recovery from a substance use disorder. He argues that Me ...

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Regional Grassroots Gathering in Portsmouth

Regional Grassroots Gathering in Portsmouth

The Portsmouth Chapter hosted a regional Grassroots Gathering, with 50 members attending, including leaders from Eastern Shore, Fredericksburg, and South Hampton Roads. We held sk ...

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