{"id":25466,"date":"2025-11-22T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=25466"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:45:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:45:56","slug":"virginia-interfaith-center-for-public-policy-working-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/2025\/11\/22\/virginia-interfaith-center-for-public-policy-working-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy Working Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><\/p>\n<p>The working group attached to the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy is supporting that group\u2019s mission to influence public policy on racial equity, justice reform, economic justice and<br \/>health equity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently, the working group is striving to make RFM a 100 percent voting community in the 2025 and 2026 elections. We remain a non-partisan community, but we strongly encourage civic participation through registering and voting, as well as advocating in favor of policies aligned with Quaker values. In addition to supplying information on voter registration, voting and on gubernatorial candidates, the working group is<br \/>encouraging voter participation through announcements and other forms of<br \/>communication to the RFM community.<\/li>\n<li>The group is also preparing to participate in General Assembly lobbying with the VICPP,<br \/>hoping to influence racial, social and environmental justice legislation in the 2026<br \/>General Assembly. A program expanding educational opportunities for incarcerated<br \/>individuals is of particular interest, given Quakers\u2019 long history of advocating for penal<br \/>reform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-and-racism"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 18:22:02","action":"category-remove","newStatus":"draft","terms":[346],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}