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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 ...

Resistance Among Landowners to Pipeline Routes Spreads

Resistance Among Landowners to Pipeline Routes Spreads

Originally posted by the Public News Service on March 24, 2015. RICHMOND, Va. - Huge pipelines intended to carry Marcellus and Utica natural gas to eastern markets are running int ...

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Five-Year Plans: Celebrating the Affordable Care Act and Looking Forward

Five-Year Plans: Celebrating the Affordable Care Act and Looking Forward

By Dottie Holtz The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has accomplished what 100 years of health care reform could not—for the first time, we have the lowest number ...

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Waynesboro: Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act

Waynesboro: Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act

What: Affordable Care Act 5th Anniversary Celebration When: Tuesday, March 24 at 3:30 p.m. Where: Downtown Waynesboro (421 W Main Street, Waynesboro, VA 22980) Waynesboro, Va.—The ...

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Richmond: Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act

Richmond: Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act

What: Affordable Care Act 5th Anniversary Celebration When: Monday, March 23 at 5 p.m. Where: Federal Courthouse (701 E Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219) Richmond, Va.—The Richmon ...

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South Hampton Roads: Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act

South Hampton Roads: Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act

What: Affordable Care Act 5th Anniversary Celebration When: Monday, March 23 at noon Where: Corner of Constitution Drive and Bonney Road, Virginia Beach Virginia Beach, Va.—The So ...

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Up From Debt: Debra’s Story

Up From Debt: Debra’s Story

Virginia Organizing participated in The Alliance for a Just Society's Up From Debt conference in March. Debra Grant shared her story (watch below). Have you ever been trapped in a ...

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South Hampton Roads Community to Gather to Talk Climate Change, Flooding in Area

South Hampton Roads Community to Gather to Talk Climate Change, Flooding in Area

What: ‘A Flood of Voices’ storytelling and climate change discussion When: Thursday, March 19 at 7 p.m. Where: Union United Church of Christ (877 Goff Street, Norfolk, VA 23504) S ...

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Do you ‘top off’ your gas tank?

Do you ‘top off’ your gas tank?

Climate change necessitates that each of us work at reducing our carbon footprint (the amount of carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere by our actions and lifestyle). One way ...

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Va. school boards’ anti-discrimination stands can mention sexual orientation

Va. school boards’ anti-discrimination stands can mention sexual orientation

Originally posted on the Washington Post on March 4, 2015. RICHMOND — Local school boards have the authority to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their anti-discri ...

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The Two Americas of Health Care

The Two Americas of Health Care

On February 25, 2015, The New York Times posted a video on "How King v. Burwell, the latest Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act, could create two American health ca ...

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