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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 ...

Community Members Gather to Support Medicaid Expansion

Community Members Gather to Support Medicaid Expansion

For Immediate Release: May 13, 2014What: Rally to support Medicaid expansion When: Wednesday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. Where: Portsmouth City Hall (801 Crawfor ...

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Virginia Organizing to Register Eligible Voters During Neighborhood Canvass

Virginia Organizing to Register Eligible Voters During Neighborhood Canvass

For Immediate Release: May 9, 2014What: Voter registration drive and neighborhood canvass When: Saturday, May 10 at 1 p.m. Where: Canvassers will meet at ...

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What the Doctor Ordered

What the Doctor Ordered

Crossposted from The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis By Massey Whorley Hundreds of lives across Virginia could be saved if lawmakers close the coverage gap by extending ...

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Virginia Organizing Chapters Raise Money for Social Justice!

Virginia Organizing Chapters Raise Money for Social Justice!

Over the last few weeks, Virginia Organizing Chapters have held fundraisers to support the social and economic justice work of Virginia Organizing. Our South Hampton Roads Chapter ...

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It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage

It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage

By Anna ChuOriginal article from Center for American Progress and can be accessed by clicking here. Right now, a parent working full time earning the minimum wage and raising ...

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Virginia Organizing Commends Attorney General’s Directive to Virginia Schools on DACA Students

Virginia Organizing Commends Attorney General’s Directive to Virginia Schools on DACA Students

For Immediate Release: April 29, 2014Virginia Beach, Va.—Virginia Organizing commended Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring after today’s opinion was released by the ...

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Breaking News: AG Opinion Opens Doors for Students!

Breaking News: AG Opinion Opens Doors for Students!

Today, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring issued an opinion to Virginia educational institutions to allow in-state tuition rates for otherwise eligible Virginia stud ...

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ACTION ALERT: Town Hall Meeting on Medicaid Expansion

ACTION ALERT: Town Hall Meeting on Medicaid Expansion

Monday, April 28, 2014 at 6 p.m. at the Waynesboro Public Library in Community Room A (600 S Wayne Ave., Waynesboro, VA 22980) Virginia Organizing will hold a rally in support of ...

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Who Benefits from Tax Day?

Who Benefits from Tax Day?

Today is Tax Day! Millions of Americans are paying their fair share of taxes at rates higher than many corporations. Tax shelters, loopholes, and other accounting techniques ...

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This is Unacceptable

This is Unacceptable

 As you know, for every day that Virginia fails to expand Medicaid, we lose $5 million we could be receiving in federal tax dollars — taxes that Virginians have already ...

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