Repro Rising Virginia Foundation

Grassroots leadership development program: seeks to develop individual virginians as pro-choice leaders, in order to develop a broader, more active, and more visible base of support for reproductive rights and healthcare access in the state. This includes a leadership development program specifically for young leaders at universities across Virginia. Student fellows develop leadership and advocacy skills to build a base of reproductive rights advocates and supporters on campus and successfully lobby their university administration for increased access to reproductive healthcare for their campus community and beyond. By increasing the number, diversity, and quality of our grassroots leaders, this program significantly advances the Foundation's overall capacity to raise public awareness and affect policy change for reproductive freedom.

Culture change and storytelling project: as part of the state infrastructure project grant, our vision is to normalize abortion and have it accepted as a societal good in an effort to end the shame and stigma associated with abortion and make it more accessible for those most impacted.

Grassroots and direct advocacy: works to protect and advance reproductive rights and freedom by building and engaging our grassroots activist network across the state. We do this through community programming, culture change work, activist trainings, and direct public outreach to educate virginians on the current status of reproductive rights, what is at stake and what they can do to make positive change.