Budget Size:
Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged:
VA
Geographic Density Focus:
Rural / Suburban / Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city or suburb of large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies:
Women
Leadership Diversity:
BIPOC-led, Trans; non-binary; and gender nonconforming-led, Youth-led (aged 15-35), Volunteer-led, Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance:
Volunteer powered - >50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Priority Issues:
State policy advocacy, Reproductive justice, Gender equality
Contact:
Andrea Miller, President, andrea@nwpc-va.org
SOWEGA Rising will be focused on training the next generation of youth leaders in rural communities. We are working to build leadership pipelines for youth and hiring youth in roles in our organization. Currently, 75% of our staff are youth 18-30. We will continue to take large groups of youth with us on advocacy day trips to the state capitol annually, engage youth in organizing trainings and develop youth leadership programs.
Prioritizing communities of color that have a low voter registration/turnout count but high opportunity to shift political power in local elections. Will host engaging actions and bring voter registration to community events. In addition, team will be rolling out a digital VR Campaign to increase online voter registration engagement and Civics for Lunch Campaign focused on graduating seniors.
SOWEGA Rising mobilizes people and resources to improve the quality of life, well being and political power of marginalized Southwest Georgians.
Budget Size:
Small: Previous year budget $20,000 - $1M
States Engaged:
GA
Congressional Districts Engaged:
GA-02Geographic Density Focus:
Rural
Core Constituencies:
Black, Youth and Students (aged 17-35), Adults (aged 35-65)
Leadership Diversity:
BIPOC-led, Women-led, Youth-led (aged 15-35)
Staff and Volunteer Balance:
Staff powered - Little to no volunteers involved in executing programs
Priority Issues:
Civic engagement, Economic justice, Racial justice
Contact:
Sherrell Byrd, Executive director, sbyrd@sowegarising.org
Community Engagement Actions
Content Creation
Mailers
Social Media Campaigns
Digital Ads
Virginia Organizing’s base-building and issue campaigns are integrated with c3 civic engagement and GOTV work. All 18 chapters will do restoration of rights work, making hundreds of calls to returning citizens and identifying people willing to share their stories at press events, in letters to the editor, etc.
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. Virginia Organizing especially encourages the participation of those who have traditionally had little or no voice in our society. By building relationships with individuals and groups throughout the state, Virginia Organizing strives to get them to work together, democratically and non-violently, for change.
Budget Size:
Medium: Previous year budget $1M - $3M
States Engaged:
VA
Congressional Districts Engaged:
VA-02, VA-07, VA-03, VA-05, VA-03Geographic Density Focus:
Rural, Suburban / Ex-urban, Urban - Small city (<100k), Urban - Large city (>100k)
Core Constituencies:
Black, Multi-racial (including white), Latinx
Leadership Diversity:
BIPOC-led, Queer-led, Youth-led (aged 15-35), Women-led
Staff and Volunteer Balance:
Volunteer powered - >50% of the programmatic activities are executed by volunteers
Contact:
Brian Johns, Director, bjohns@virginia-organizing.org
Community Engagement Actions
Policy Development
Warm List Texting