Regional Grassroots Gathering – Charlottesville 2024
Central region, including the Charlottesville/Albemarle County, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg/Rockingham, Halifax/South Boston, and Waynesboro Chapters. ...
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From Clio Schurtz, New River Valley Organizer When I was 12 years old, I asked my best friend if I could live with her for a while because the bank was taking our house. I didn’t ...
Read More »About the Charlottesville-Albemarle County Chapter
Charlottesville is the statewide headquarters of Virginia Organizing and also has a local chapter. Local residents work on a variety of issues including immigration reform, budget ...
Read More »Celebration of Tales | Featured Community Partner
(Picture: Storyteller Sheila Arnold, Photo: Rob Craighurst) When was the last time you heard a good story? Not as a solitary encounter with a good book or a Netflix binge, but dir ...
Read More »Bread Across Borders
Bread Across Borders is an all-volunteers organization that started in 2020 during the lockdown with the delivery model of distributing food to different families. We take the box ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Little Bluestem
Little Bluestem cultivates a resilient future for Central Virginia's land and people - human and otherwise. ...
Read More »Lilypads Housing
LilyPads Housing provides free, short-term housing in volunteer host homes for families and friends of pediatric patients undergoing medical care at the University of Virginia or ...
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