Racial Equity in Virginia

VACAP’s Racial Equity Committee met on 9/28/23 and recommended members continue to utilize NCAP’s Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series and Tools as they work to advance racial equity. You can access resources and tools here.

The Capital Strategy Group, LLC will be conducting its fourth training in the Leadership 101- Foundational Principles Series on Thursday, September 15, 2022. Equity Mindset will run from 10-11:30 am. This module will discuss how community action agencies can become...

National Association For State Community Services Programs (NASCSP) racial equity workgroup recently hosted a webinar discussion on community-level racial equity work called Advancing Racial Equity by Creating Space. Angel Ampey (VA) and Stephanie Insinna-Sahondo (CO)...

The national Community Action Partnership is hosting its first ever Equity Summit on April 19-21, 2021.  The theme for this virtual event is “Centering in Truth, Activating Community Healing and Resiliency”.  The objective of the summit is to become centered in key...

We, the members of Virginia Community Action Partnership (VACAP) are devastated by the events, that have either directly or indirectly contributed to the murder of George Floyd, in Minnesota on May 25, 2020, by a Minneapolis police officer.  We are appalled by a...