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  • 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, ...

  • Featured Community Partner | Nature Connection Lab

    Featured Community Partner | Nature Connection Lab

    Human societies evolved in tight communities intertwined with and nurtured by the unique landscapes where they found themselves, and the idea that there is something out there call ...

  • 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 ...

Washington Post Editorial: Expand Medicaid VA!

Washington Post Editorial: Expand Medicaid VA!

Photo: Virginia Organizing leaders at a Lynchburg health care rally Just ahead of the General Assembly special session on Wednesday, April 11, the Washington Post published this e ...

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Virginia Organizing Thanks Senators Warner and Kaine for Support of the CFPB

Virginia Organizing Thanks Senators Warner and Kaine for Support of the CFPB

For Immediate Release: Monday, April 2 Richmond, Va. — Last week, Senator Mark Warner and Senator Tim Kaine, along with 41 other senators, sent a letter to Consumer Financial Prot ...

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Sea-Level Report Cards

Sea-Level Report Cards

From the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. Want to know how sea level in your area is changing due to global warming and other factors? Our 'report cards' can help. Updated b ...

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Chairperson Del McWhorter on the Tax Scam

Chairperson Del McWhorter on the Tax Scam

From the Daily Progress. If you are struggling to get by, even a small tax cut makes a difference. If the Trump tax cut were just a boost in pay for workers, no one would be compl ...

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Virginia Organizing’s Chapters Stand Up for Immigrant Rights

Virginia Organizing’s Chapters Stand Up for Immigrant Rights

All of our chapters are working this month on immigration reform. We want to see Congress pass a clean Dream Act to protect recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival ...

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Stop S. 2155–No More Help for Predatory Lenders!

Stop S. 2155–No More Help for Predatory Lenders!

From our friends at @StopTheDebtTrap: With all the news to worry about these days, Virginia voters might not have noticed our two U.S. Senators getting behind a major new bank giv ...

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Senator Warner Should Reconsider Predatory Lending Bill

Senator Warner Should Reconsider Predatory Lending Bill

Charlottesville leader, Valerie Washington, has published this fierce op-ed about predatory lending in the Roanoke Times. We hope Senator Mark Warner will listen! To contact his o ...

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Fredericksburg Leaders Question Senator Tim Kaine at Library Community Conversation

Fredericksburg Leaders Question Senator Tim Kaine at Library Community Conversation

Virginia Organizing's Fredericksburg Chapter, the Spotsylvania NAACP, and other groups met with Senator Tim Kaine in a Community Conversation at the Salem Church Branch Library in ...

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South Hampton Roads Chapter Leaders Visit General Assembly

South Hampton Roads Chapter Leaders Visit General Assembly

Leaders from the South Hampton Roads Chapter visited their legislators in the General Assembly in January. Every chapter will make these visits to advocate for our four top priori ...

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Without Medicaid expansion, Danville resident caught in middle

Without Medicaid expansion, Danville resident caught in middle

Published by Danville Register and Bee. Danville resident and cancer survivor Margaret Lipford said she started paying into the system more than 30 years ago. For decades, she wor ...

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