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The Virginia League of Conservation Voters is an organization that supports public policies that take action to prevent on environmental issues. The organization works with state government officials to advocate for these policies. [1]
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Virginia Mercury is a left-leaning state-focused news website founded in 2018. While it claims to produce non-partisan news coverage, it selects topics of interest for a left-of-center readership and writes them from a left-of-center perspective. [2] It is owned by the left-of-center States Newsroom (formerly Newsroom Network),
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Virginia Organizing, formerly known as the Virginia Organizing Project, is a political advocacy organization in the state of Virginia. While Virginia Organizing calls itself “non-partisan,” the group receives major funding from left-of-center organizations like Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Johnson Family Foundation, and Surdna Foundation. [35]
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Virginia Progressive Prosecutors for Justice (VPPFJ) is a professional association of local prosecutors who support left-of-center criminal justice policies. VPPFJ is an outgrowth of the Virginia Association of Commonwealth’s Attorneys (VACA), an ostensibly nonpartisan professional association of Virginia prosecutors. VACA and similar organizations often advocate for policies aligned with a
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Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement is a coalition of religious-based organizations in Northern Virginia that seek to support programs that promote affordable housing, immigrants rights, and increased access to health and dental care. [73]
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VirtualCAP is a project administered by the Connecticut Association for Community Action that was formed in 2018. The program offers support for the business practices of nonprofit organizations. [74]
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The Vision First Project is an initiative of the left-of-center advocacy and funding clearinghouse New Venture Fund to that supports widespread abortion access. It creates pro-abortion activities and then actively promotes them. [75] Funding It receives funding primarily from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, an
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Vital Projects Fund is a grant making organization created from the estate of stockbroker Horace W. Goldsmith. It supports a number of left-of-center advocacy organizations. [85] Goldsmith died in 1980 and half of his net assets were given to two charitable organizations chaired by two brothers who both
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Vital Voices Global Partnership is a center-left nonprofit that advocates for women’s issues.
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VOCAL-NY, or Voices of Community Activists and Leaders, is a New York-based membership organization that advocates for liberal policies relating to criminal justice, drug policy, housing, and homelessness, and in favor of increased state spending on social services. The group was originally known as the New York AIDS Housing Network.
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Voces de la Frontera is a left-of-center immigration advocacy group based in Wisconsin. The organization is best known for organizing immigrant “general strikes” to protest against the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Voces de la Frontera has led opposition efforts to immigrant deportation, barring illegal immigrants from obtaining driver’s licenses,
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Voces de la Frontera Action is the political advocacy arm of Voces de la Frontera, a left-of-center immigration advocacy group based in Wisconsin. The organization is best known for organizing Latino and immigrant general strikes to protest against the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Voces de la Frontera and
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Voice of the Experienced (VOTE) is a left-of-center advocacy organization founded by formerly incarcerated people and anti-prison activists in 2004. Operating in Louisiana, VOTE aims to provide increased political and social opportunities for former convicts and argues for decreased incarceration. [144] VOTE claims credit for former President
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Voices for a Sustainable Future is a project of Labor Network for Sustainability.
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Voices for Illinois Children is a Chicago-based advocacy group. Its Fiscal Policy Center serves as a state-level left-of-center policy think tank for Illinois.
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Voices for National Service is an advocacy coalition of City Year and was founded to expand federal funding for AmeriCorps. [166] It funds students and new graduates to work in left-of-center social service organizations, and to advocate for legislation that federally mandates tenure in such left-wing organizations. Founding
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Voices For Progress is an advocacy and coordination group for left-wing donors. It is a project of The Advocacy Fund, which is affiliated with the incubation and funding group the Tides Foundation. The organization works to promote its issues by educating lawmakers and their staffs on left-of-center proposals and
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Voices for Progress Education Fund is an advocacy and coordination group for left-of-center donors and a nonprofit project of the Tides Center. It is affiliated with Voices for Progress, an advocacy project of the Tides Foundation-affiliated Advocacy Fund, and the 527 political action committee Voices for Progress (PAC). The organization works
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Voices for Utah Children (also known as Utah Children) is a left-of-center public policy organization in Utah.
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Voices Rising is a female chorus that supports LGBTQ and female communities in Boston. The chorus is supported by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. [202]