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The Chapters

Charlottesville-Albemarle County

Charlottesville is the statewide headquarters of Virginia Organizing and also has an active local chapter.

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Danville

Through regular strategy sessions, in-depth research, and community outreach, members are engaging new people and building a strong local Chapter. If you live in the area, we’d love to have you join us!

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Eastern Shore

Fredericksburg

The Fredericksburg Chapter of Virginia Organizing has been active since 2009 and has won many local victories.

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Harrisonburg/Rockingham County

The Harrisonburg/Rockingham County Virginia Organizing Chapter has been working on immigration reform issues including opposing anti-immigrant policies in the Virginia General Assembly and at a federal level, supporting comprehensive federal immigration reform and supporting families in deportation.

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Lynchburg

The Lynchburg Chapter became an official Virginia Organizing Chapter in April 2017 and has been working to dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline ever since.

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Martinsville/Henry County

In early 2012, the Martinsville/Henry County grew out of opposition to the voter suppression bills in the General Assembly. After celebrating the defeats of the worst of the proposals, the Chapter committed itself to register new voters and make sure that everyone was aware of the new voter ID requirements by reaching out to schools, churches, and neighborhoods in the region.

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New River Valley

The New River Valley Chapter became one of Virginia Organizing’s chapters in April 2017.

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Newport News/Hampton

Residents in Newport News and Hampton started working together to build new Virginia Organizing chapters on the Peninsula in 2018.

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Norfolk

Community leaders established the Norfolk Chapter of Virginia Organizing in 2009. Originally covered all of South Hampton Roads, the chapter has won protections for residents of a mobile home park, passed zoning restrictions on predatory lenders, organized monthly vigils for immigration reform, and so much more!

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Portsmouth

The Portsmouth Chapter began in January 2016. Their first campaign was to reduce suspensions as a part of the school-to-prison pipeline.

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Richmond Area

Richmond Area members of Virginia Organizing had our first meeting in January of 2020.

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Southwest

Our Washington County Chapter is one of our oldest!

Our oldest Chapter in the state is in Lee County, VA—where Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee meet. We won our first local campaign in Virginia Organizing’s history when we addressed the jury selection process back in the late 1990s and made sure every group—not only white residents—was called for jury duty. This has set an empowering tone for organizing in the county and all over the state since then.

In 2022 we have a new chapter developing in Wise County.

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Suffolk

Virginia Organizing started organizing a new chapter in Suffolk in 2018. Emerging chapter leaders are working to help returning citizens get their rights restored, attending city council meetings, and spreading the work about Medicaid expansion.

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Waynesboro

The Waynesboro Chapter was founded in 2020. They have learned new and creative ways to organize and build people power during a global pandemic, and are actively working on their first campaign to improve tenants’ rights.

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Wise County

The Wise County/Norton Chapter had its first interest meeting in January 2023 and became an official chapter soon afterwards.

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Wythe County

The Wythe County Chapter became an official chapter of Virginia Organizing in May 2022.

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