Power-Building Strategies
- Community Organizing
- Strategic Communications
- Policy Advocacy
- Voter Participation and Education
- Coalition Building
Who Our Grantees Organize
- Black
- Latinx
- Immigrant
- Multiracial
- Urban
- Suburban
- Rural
Virginia Grantees
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Progress Now Education
ProgressNow Education is a network of 21 state entities that are dedicated to providing communications assistance to allies on the ground who work for human rights, social justice and voicing the concerns and issues of underrepresented communities.
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Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN)
The mission of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) is to build a diverse movement powerful enough to put our region on the path to climate stability, while using our proximity to the nation’s capital to inspire action in neighboring states, around the country, and across the world.
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Appalachian Voices
Appalachian Voices brings people together to advance a just economic transition away from fossil fuels and toward a democratic and inclusive clean-energy future. They partner with impacted communities to strengthen environmental protections, enact equitable clean-energy policies, and secure investments in ecologically sound alternatives to extractive industries.
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Virginia Organizing
Virginia Organizing is a non-partisan statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives.
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Climate Equity Working Group
The Climate Equity Working Group (CEWG) is an equity-focused coalition of community groups advancing climate justice statewide in Virginia.
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Green Workers Alliance
The Green Workers Alliance mobilizes current and future workers in the clean energy field to build support for green jobs policies that grow the sector and improve job quality.
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Virginia Interfaith Power & Light
Virginia Interfaith Power & Light collaborates among people of faith and conscience to grow healthy communities by advancing climate and environmental justice.
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New Virginia Majority Education Fund (NVM EF)
New Virginia Majority Education Fund (NVM EF), Virginia’s leading civic engagement organization, builds power in working-class communities of color across the Commonwealth. We organize in communities year-round for racial, economic, and environmental justice through political education, mass-scale voter outreach, mobilization, and intensive leadership development around dozens of issues.
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CASA
With over 155,000 lifetime members across 46 US states, CASA is a national powerhouse organization building power and improving the quality of life in working-class: Black, Latino/a/e, Afro-descendent, Indigenous, and Immigrant communities.
Issues They Work On
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Building Decarbonization
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Clean Energy Transition
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Climate Resilience, Recovery, and Response
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Environmental Justice
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Federal Implementation Projects and Campaigns
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Fossil Fuel Transition, Pipelines, and Mining
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Just Transition for Workers
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Public Service Commissions & Utility Accountability
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Transportation & Transit Access and Affordability
Virginia By The Numbers
- 9
- Grantees
- 51 %
- Grantees Led by People of Color
- 8
- Years in Our Portfolio