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Help fight for clean energy!

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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Families Can’t Wait

Families Can’t Wait

Click here to see how much wealth is stripped from our communities by payday and car title loans since March 2015. Every day, payday and car title lenders drain $23,951,459 out of ...

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Debra Grant: Payday lenders prey on women, families

Debra Grant: Payday lenders prey on women, families

Published by the Virginian-Pilot I had a relative who needed to borrow $150, so I took out a payday loan to help. Every month, I would have to roll the loan over until the next mo ...

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Our Top Ten of 2015

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

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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Shop Local First.

Shop Local First.

As you’re finishing up your holiday shopping, we’d like to encourage you to shop local businesses first! Small business owners contribute a lot to our communities, including placi ...

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Letter to the Editor: Deaf patients need special care

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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Virginia Organizing SAW Chapter Works with Local Deaf Community to Increase Accessibility at Local Hospitals

Virginia Organizing SAW Chapter Works with Local Deaf Community to Increase Accessibility at Local Hospitals

Check out this video to learn more about why accessibility in hospitals is so important! Video by Phil Dixon. https://youtu.be/LzNB_CQCMow   ...

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Group Goes Solar to ‘Lead by Example’

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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End tax breaks for big corporations

End tax breaks for big corporations

Our friends at Americans for Tax Fairness recently sent out an email to let us know that Congress is negotiating a huge package of mostly corporate tax breaks that have expired—ba ...

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