2025 Legislative Priorities
The 2025 General Assembly session will be held from January 8, 2025 - February 22, 2025. With our collective power, we can amplify our voices and advocate for legislativ ...
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About the Portsmouth Chapter
The Portsmouth Chapter began in January 2016 and is one of the largest chapters of Virginia Organizing. Their first campaign was to reduce suspensions as a way of stopping the sch ...
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2024 Legislative Priorities
The 2024 General Assembly session begins Wednesday, January 10 and ends March 9. Our power as an organization is in the people who take action with us, and thanks to you we've bui ...
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Liz Cunningham | Halifax Organizer
Liz was born in Boston and attended the University of Rhode Island, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. In 2006, she moved to Halifax, Virginia where she found he ...
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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 ...
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2023 VIRGINIA STATE LEGISLATOR REPORT CARDS
INTRODUCING OUR 2023 LEGISLATOR REPORT CARDS: Ahead of the 2023 General Assembly session, Virginia Organizing developed four legislative priority areas for the upcoming year: 1) s ...
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Legislative Priorities 2023 (as of 2/6)
School Funding We support Fund Our Schools’ priorities, including full funding for the revised Standards of Quality, increased wrap-around services, additional school support staf ...
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Legislative Priorities (as of January 19, 2023)
School Funding We support Fund Our Schools’ priorities, including full funding for the revised Standards of Quality, increased wrap-around services, additional school support staf ...
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Virginia Organizing’s 2023 Statewide Legislative Priorities
Equitable School Funding We support Fund Our Schools’ priorities, including full funding for the revised Standards of Quality, increased wrap around services, additional school su ...
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Urgent action alert: tell Gov. Youngkin to accept the budget
Yesterday the General Assembly passed the budget proposal the Budget Committee has been working on for weeks. It's far from perfect, but the conferees worked out a compromise that ...
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