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  • 2024 Legislative Priorities

    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 buil ...

  • The True Cost of Diabetes by Shelia Carter

    The True Cost of Diabetes by Shelia Carter

    On August 29, President Biden announced that Medicare has selected the first 10 medications that they will negotiate lower prices for. These negotiations were made possible by the ...

  • The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner

    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 treatm ...

  • Brave Souls on Fire | Featured Community Partner

    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 marginaliz ...

Virginia Organizing Southwest Chapters to Hold “Bridge the Divide” Rally in Wytheville

Virginia Organizing Southwest Chapters to Hold “Bridge the Divide” Rally in Wytheville

As Inflation Soars, Locals Urge Lawmakers to ‘Bridge Gaps’ by Lowering Drug Prices, Making Health Coverage More Affordable What: Rally to call on Congress to pass tax reform ...

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A Thank You Letter from Erika Holliday, Tri-Cities Organizer

A Thank You Letter from Erika Holliday, Tri-Cities Organizer

I am so glad to have this opportunity to thank you for the support you have given to Virginia Organizing. I recently joined the staff as the Tri-Cities Organizer after being a mem ...

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43 Percent Jump In Virginia Billionaire Wealth—Almost All Tax-Free

43 Percent Jump In Virginia Billionaire Wealth—Almost All Tax-Free

9 Virginia Tycoons Have Enjoyed a $18 Billion Increase in Wealth Since Pandemic Began; Their Rise in Riches Alone Could Fund 11 Percent of the Cost of Lowering ACA Healt ...

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Featured Community Partner: Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

Featured Community Partner: Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments

by Eric Olson-Getty, Director of Programs Sometime in the last two years, as the COVID-19 pandemic has swept over the world again and again, you may have read or heard that health ...

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Media Conference on Funding of Mental Health Care in Suffolk

Media Conference on Funding of Mental Health Care in Suffolk

What: Press conference to call on Congress to fund mental health care When: Saturday, September 25 at 1 p.m. Where: Suffolk Station Park, 100 Forest Oak Ln., off of Caro ...

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Virginia Organizing to Host Rally to Call for More Health Care Access as Covid Cases Spike

Virginia Organizing to Host Rally to Call for More Health Care Access as Covid Cases Spike

What: Rally for health care with Councilwoman Andria Padgett McClellan and community leaders When: Today, July 30 at 11 a.m. Where: Faith Deliverance Christian ...

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Advocates Launch Virginians for Affordable Medicine Coalition, Call on House Candidates to Support Prescription Drug Affordability Board

Advocates Launch Virginians for Affordable Medicine Coalition, Call on House Candidates to Support Prescription Drug Affordability Board

Richmond, Va. — Today, July 20, small business owners, doctors and physicians, patients, consumers, and faith leaders launched a new coalition calling on the Commonwealth’s policy ...

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Rx Reform in Congress Must Include Rx Price Negotiations to Make Medicines Affordable for More Veterans and Their Families

Rx Reform in Congress Must Include Rx Price Negotiations to Make Medicines Affordable for More Veterans and Their Families

Richmond, Va. — Virginia Organizing, a statewide grassroots non-partisan organization, is calling on Congress this Independence Day to lower drug prices through price negotiations ...

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Ahead of Changes on July 1 in Virginia’s Medicaid Policies, Virginia Organizing Celebrates Expansion in Coverage and Calls for More Access for Immigrants

Ahead of Changes on July 1 in Virginia’s Medicaid Policies, Virginia Organizing Celebrates Expansion in Coverage and Calls for More Access for Immigrants

Richmond, Va. — On July 1,an important policy change will go into effect that will make health care more accessible in Virginia.  Virginia's Department of Medical A ...

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Build Back Better Policies Must Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap To Address Health Equity

Build Back Better Policies Must Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap To Address Health Equity

Two-thirds of people who would gain coverage in non-expansion states are people of color Petersburg, Va. — Virginia Organizing released a new issue brief today highlighting racial ...

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