Put People Over Politics
The 2016 Virginia General Assembly convened in Richmond on Wednesday. On the agenda this year are education, transportation, changes in election laws, and of course, Medicaid expa ...
Read More »
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 ...
Read More »
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 ...
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 ...
Read More »
Care for our Earth: Preventing Water Scarcity
How careful are we in our use of one of the Earth's most precious resource, water? If we were to experience a high category hurricane where our drinkable water supply would no lon ...
Read More »
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 ...
Read More »
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 ...
Read More »
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 ...
Read More »
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 ...
Read More »
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 ...
Read More »