Grassroot groups are special because they work in their communities throughout every year, regardless of when elections happen, or who won the last one. Virginia is one of the few states with elections for Governor and the state legislature this year. Here are three organizations working hard for the people in Virginia.
Rural Groundgame Being able to directly contact well over 2 million voters and offer some level of support to over 100 campaigns is no small feat for a small, scrappy organization reaching volunteers and voters far off the radar of other progressive organizations making investments only in the cities and suburbs.
Your donations help them defy the accepted (and too often unquestioned) “wisdom” of investing exclusively in urban and suburban districts.
New Virginia Majority works to create a powerful multi-issue, multi-racial movement to transform Virginia through large-scale civic engagement, issue advocacy, and strategic communications and community organizing.
Working-class communities of color have been shut out, silenced and ignored in Virginia, fueling widespread injustice in the state. NVM builds the power of marginalized communities to change the political systems that aren’t working for us.
NVM organizes within Latinx, African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander and youth communities, centering the leadership and demands of working-class women of color. Together, they vote, mobilize and engage to end mass incarceration, build just economic policies, protect immigrants and preserve the environment.
Network Nova is a grassroots organizing hub run by the unstoppable, badass, fearless women of Network NOVA. We inspire, inform and empower each other and our allies for powerful year-round political action.
Our motto is When We Vote, We Win! We create opportunities for political engagement and civic participation through our annual Women’s Summit, Friday Power Lunch video podcast, BADASS Briefing with political actions and news, Postcards4VA state-wide postcard writing program, and many more events and actions throughout the year. Support Network NOVA and the work of the Virginia Grassroots!