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  • #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    We asked and our communities answered! Watch our video of our members sharing how Medicaid has impacted them. https://youtu.be/HoAxfv3ANvs?feature=shared ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

States not expanding Medicaid falling further behind expansion states

States not expanding Medicaid falling further behind expansion states

Originally published on the Off the Charts blog at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. States that have adopted health reform’s Medicaid expansion had a substantially lowe ...

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Virginia Organizing to Hold Restoration of Rights Workshop in Woodbridge

Virginia Organizing to Hold Restoration of Rights Workshop in Woodbridge

What: Workshop to help returning citizens apply to restore civil rights When: Monday, September 14, 2015 from 7-8:30 p.m. Where: Chinn Park Library (13065 Chinn Park Drive, Woodbr ...

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We Need Medicaid Expansion

We Need Medicaid Expansion

Originally published in The Danville Register & Bee. To the editor: Aug. 29 was national Women’s Equality Day. I am writing in support of the Stand With Women campaign and to ...

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Virginia Organizing Leaders to Urge City Council to ‘Ban the Box’

Virginia Organizing Leaders to Urge City Council to ‘Ban the Box’

What: Staunton City Council Meeting When: Thursday, September 10 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Staunton City Hall (116 W. Beverly Street, Staunton, VA 24401) Staunton, Va.—Virginia Organizi ...

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Caring for our Earth with Technology

Caring for our Earth with Technology

Some people argue that wind turbines are not acceptable because a number of birds are killed by them. Unfortunately, wind power does have that disadvantage at the present time, th ...

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Online family budget calculator shows Virginia working families struggling

Online family budget calculator shows Virginia working families struggling

Originally published in Public News Service. RICHMOND, Va. - A typical working family in Virginia probably doesn't make enough money to support itself, according to a new online b ...

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Action Alert: Call Delegate Terry Kilgore TODAY!

Action Alert: Call Delegate Terry Kilgore TODAY!

Take action on National Women’s Day! Virginia Organizing is asking all our supporters to take a few minutes and call state Delegate Terry Kilgore TODAY at (276) 386-7011 to tell h ...

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Va. Ranked Eighth Worst in Country for Gender Equality in New WalletHub Study

Va. Ranked Eighth Worst in Country for Gender Equality in New WalletHub Study

Published in the Loudon Times-Mirror.  Virginia women looking for more gender equality in the workplace might set their sights on Hawaii. A recent WalletHub study lists the state ...

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Tougher Pollution Rules Affect Low-Income Neighborhoods Differently

Tougher Pollution Rules Affect Low-Income Neighborhoods Differently

The full article and audio file can be found at Public News Service. RICHMOND, Va. - Since the Clean Air Act of 1970, America's air has gotten cleaner, but the American Lung Assoc ...

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Virginia Organizing Commends Danville City Council for Voting to Remove Confederate Flag

Virginia Organizing Commends Danville City Council for Voting to Remove Confederate Flag

Danville, Va.—In response to Danville City Council’s vote to remove the Confederate flag from public property, Virginia Organizing has issued the following statements: “I am so gl ...

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