Our Campaigns
Issues we are organizing around
Ongoing efforts
Here's what we've been up to:
Upcoming Events
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14
May
06:05
PM
PWC: Building a Relational Team Culture & Organizing Plan
Mt Olive Baptist Church, 13111 Minnieville Rd, Woodbridge, VA
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16
May
06:05
PM
Alexandria + Arlington: Building a Relational Team Culture & Organizing Plan
Grace Episcopal Church, 3601 Russell Rd, Alexandria, VA
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21
May
06:05
PM
Fairfax: Building a Relational Team Culture & Organizing Plan
Trinity Presbyterian Church, 651 Dranesville Rd, Herndon, VA
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Our Theory of Change
Building Relational power for Justice
At VOICE, we know that organizing in our local communities can drive meaningful, lasting change in Virginia. To organize effectively, we must analyze, build, and exercise power by taking actions that align with our deepest values. Our approach centers on intentionally building relationships that cross divides such as race, class, neighborhood, and political affiliation around issues of common concern. Most of VOICE's power-building work is through organizing within institutions--such as mosques, churches, synagogues, labor unions, and schools--where people have deep connections and affiliations. We believe institutions that nurture community, shape values, and develop leadership are critical to a healthy society, and the cornerstone of effective long-term organizing. We invite diverse organizations committed to justice to join us in this crucial work!
Rev. Michael Sessoms & Rev. Mandy North
VOICE Co-Chairs
Our Impact
BE PART OF THE CHANGE
Secured: $125,000,000
Behavioral Health Care
VOICE and our allies have delivered major investments into the creation of a statewide network of behavioral health Crisis Receiving Centers (CRCs). CRCs divert Virginians away from being warehoused in hospital emergency rooms and jail when faced with a behavioral health crisis and into a humane system of treatment and support.
Secured: $500,000,000
Housing Justice
Since our founding, VOICE has used our power to combat the housing crisis from many angles–winning major subsidies to support the creation of affordable housing, securing rights and better living conditions for low-income tenants, reforming harmful zoning practices, and successfully fighting for individual affordable housing developments.
Impact: 25,000 Conversations
Democracy
VOICE regularly runs large-scale, nonpartisan Get Out the Vote campaigns in historically low-voting areas of our community so that more people can take part in our multicultural democracy and exercise power through the electoral process.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Can We Help?
Join in and support our important work for justice in the commonwealth!
VOICE members are institutions: congregations, neighborhood associations, schools, business or employee associations, health centers, community groups and other voluntary associations. VOICE does not accept individual people as members
Visit our Membership page to join.
VOICE is a coalition of dues-paying member institutions which participate actively in the Action Team to set and implement strategies. Any organization can become a member, including congregations, temples, mosques, union locals, business groups, schools, PTA’s, health centers, etc.
We currently operate in:
Alexandria City
Arlington County
Fairfax County
Prince William County Area
All Dulles Area Muslim Society
Northern Virginia Baptist Association
VOICE is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. VOICE is an independent and non-partisan organization led by a strategy team of religious, lay, and community leaders from across Northern Virginia. VOICE is funded by dues paid by member institutions (congregations, temples, mosques, union locals, business groups, schools, health centers, etc.) and grants from foundations.
VOICE is funded by dues for member institutions, individual donations, corporate donors and foundations. The bulk of VOICE’s annual budget pays for professional staff members who guide and serve the member organizations. The budget also funds the training of volunteer leaders each year and covers expenses associated with operating issue campaigns. VOICE is able to keep its cost down by having little to no overhead. VOICE does not accept government funds so that it can remain autonomous and politically independent.