Jan. 17 – News Update from the GA
Jan. 17 – Good news today on 2 bills VICPP is advocating: SB 1640 – In-State Tuition Eligibility and SB 1079 – Minimum Wage Act; removes exemptions for newsboys, shoe-shine boys, etc., from coverage SB...
Jan. 14 – News Update from the GA
Jan. 14 – News Update from the GA TWO LEGISLATIVE VICTORIES! ECONOMIC JUSTICE – WAGE THEFT We’re one step closer to ending Jim Crow-era minimum wage exemptions in Virginia. SB 1079 passed through committee...
Jan. 11 – News Update from the GA
Jan. 11 – Day 3 of the General Assembly CALL TO ACTION On Monday morning please contact your state senators and ask them to support 2 bills that will be heard in committee, SB...
Jan. 10 – News Update from the GA
Jan. 10 – Day 2 of the General Assembly The VICPP policy team was pounding the pavement at the General Assembly today focused on 2 issues… (L-R: Ben Hoyne, Amanda Silcox, Kim Bobo) 1....
Jan. 9 – News Update from the GA
Jan. 9, 2019 – Day 1 of the General Assembly The team from Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy participated in events across the city – sharing our legislative agenda and joining with our...
Legislative Priorities for the 2019 General Assembly
2019 General Assembly Priorities Welcoming All: The U.S. is not a very welcoming place for immigrants and minority faith traditions right now. VICPP opposes anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies and advocates policies in...
Delivering Health Care Hope in 2019
By, Dora Muhammad, VICPP Health Care Organizer — After launching Health Care Hope this past September, our Medicaid expansion outreach campaign took us around the Commonwealth engaging with faith leaders, congregations, community leaders, local...
Interfaith Organizations Merge, Strengthening Focus on Justice
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) and Virginia Interfaith Power & Light (VAIPL) merged on Dec. 17, 2018, joining forces to advocate social, economic and environmental justice across Virginia. This partnership helps to...
Medicaid Expansion Is Not Fake News, It’s Good News
By Dora Muhammad, Health Care Hope Organizer for VICPP — What would you say to a pastor who does not believe that Medicaid expansion is happening? I am confronted with this reality this week....
What We are Thankful for Depends on What Story We are Telling
By Rev. Lauren Ramseur, Bon Air Presbyterian Church — Sermon: “My father was a wandering Aramean” Deuteronomy 26:1-11 November 18, 2018 This is a story time of year. I am a mother of two...
A Teenager’s Response to Anti-Semitism
By Claudia Sachs, Richmond, VA — When I first heard about the murder of eleven Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, I was outraged, but not surprised. Part of me wanted...
My Connection to the Squirrel Hill Community in Pittsburgh
Reflections by VICPP member, Jamie Conrad — I’ve lived in Alexandria, Virginia since 1985. But I’ve been deeply affected by the shootings in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh because, until 1965, when...
Alexandria Living Wage Certification Program News
By Daniel Williams, University of Richmond Student and Bonner Scholar — With spirits raised following Mayor Allison Silberberg’s inspirational remarks at their first meeting, the Alexandria Living Wage Committee in partnership with Virginia Interfaith...
Sen. Emmett Hanger Wins “Health Care Advocacy Award” for Medicaid Expansion
Senator Emmett Hanger’s Fight for Medicaid Expansion by, Daniel Williams, University of Richmond Student “We are talking about people in the lower income levels who simply cannot afford good quality healthcare.” Senator Emmett...
Lillie Branch-Kennedy to Receive the “Criminal Justice Advocacy Award” from VICPP on Sept. 26, 2018
“It is essential to use your voice to assist, uplift, and empower.” – Lillie Branch-Kennedy Lillie Branch-Kennedy has been an advocate for prison reform since 2002 when her son Donald was charged as an...
Get Your Tickets for Sept. 26 Award Celebration!
Order Your Tickets for our September 26, Annual Awards Benefit and Celebrate the Work of our Honorees Join the party at the Hippodrome Theater in Richmond’s historic Jackson Ward neighborhood on Wed., Sept. 26...
Wage Theft – Reflections from Kim Bobo
WAGE THEFT: A Labor Day Message from Kim Bobo August 31, 2018 Kim Bobo is Co-Director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy and the author of Wage Theft in America: Why...
Reflections on Charlottesville for People of Conscience
By Margaret Heenan Smither I just returned from a beach weekend with a group of my sorority sisters from the University of Virginia (UVA). We are lawyers, accountants, consultants, teachers, federal government workers, counselors,...
Woman takes Sanctuary at Richmond’s First UU Church
Abbie Arevalo-Herrera (above, standing with her family at a press conference) is a Richmond mother who arrived in the United States in 2014 with her oldest child fleeing domestic violence. Threats against her life continue,...
‘Zero Tolerance’ immigration policies are incompatible with basic human decency
By Rabbi Michael Knopf A few weeks ago, I attended a gathering of faith leaders from across the Richmond region. Speaker after speaker — including a scholar at a conservative think tank and...
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