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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 ...

The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner

The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner

In the fight against childhood cancer, children are noncombatants. That is the response of The Alyssa House Board Chair, Lynn Divers, to the more common conception of cancer treat ...

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Thank you to Grassroots Gathering 2023 Sponsors!

Thank you to Grassroots Gathering 2023 Sponsors!

National and State Partners Appalachian Voices Chesapeake Climate Action Network Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Legal Aid Justice Center Virginia AFL-CIO Sierra Club Virginia Ch ...

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Patchwork Kinfolx | Featured Community Partner

Patchwork Kinfolx | Featured Community Partner

In early 2022 a group of queer community members and allies decided to hold a Pride celebration at Breaks Interstate Park in rural Appalachia, on the Virginia-Kentucky border. The ...

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Join us for CLASS: Rural Organizing

Join us for CLASS: Rural Organizing

For our Community Learning and Strategy Session (CLASS) on THURSDAY, September 7 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, we will be talking about Rural Organizing. Come learn about how organ ...

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VACOLAO | Featured Community Partner

VACOLAO | Featured Community Partner

For Beatriz Ambermann of the Virginia Coalition of Latino Organizations (VACOLAO), organizing for political power is about connection and community across time and space. Since 20 ...

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July CLASS: Energy Justice 101

July CLASS: Energy Justice 101

For our Community Learning and Strategy Session (CLASS) on THURSDAY, July 6 at 7 p.m. on Zoom, we will be talking about Energy Justice. Come learn about how our energy s ...

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Lilypads Housing | Featured Community Partner

Lilypads Housing | Featured Community Partner

Shortly after Lily Koym was born in 2015 she was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening congenital heart defect. After months of treatment, her doctors at the University of Virgi ...

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A National Independence Day

A National Independence Day

https://youtu.be/Ct3q8ewJ0WE Juneteenth is officially a national independence day. It is a federal holiday here in the United States of America. On this day, we commemorate t ...

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Brave Souls on Fire | Featured Community Partner

Brave Souls on Fire | Featured Community Partner

Not all mental health care is created equal. For Myra Anderson of Brave Souls on Fire, nothing underlines that statement more than the ways Black people have experienced marginali ...

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