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Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

All faiths believe in justice

Richmond, VA   |  http://www.virginiainterfaithcenter.org

Mission

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) engages people of faith and goodwill in advocating economic, racial, and social justice in Virginia’s policies and practices through education, prayer, and action.

Notes from the nonprofit

VICPP is a critical faith voice on policies and practices in Virginia. We have chapters and congregations affiliated with us across the Commonwealth. If you'd like to join us, sign up at www.virginiainterfaithcenter.org.

Ruling year info

1986

Executive Director

Rev. Dr. Lakeisha Cook

Main address

1716 E Franklin St

Richmond, VA 23223-6948 USA

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EIN

54-1362857

NTEE code info

Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (R01)

IRS filing requirement

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Virginia's policies and practices are not as inclusive, equitable and welcoming as they should be to create a society in which all can thrive and prosper. The faith community is deeply concerned about economic and racial inequities in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP) is working to advance systemic changes.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Living Wage Certification Program

Four communities, Richmond, Harrisonburg, Charlottesville and Alexandria are building living wage certification programs that: Recognize employers who are already paying their workers a living wage. Assist consumers in patronizing businesses that provide living wages. Encourage employers who are not currently paying a living wage to adopt the Campaign’s thresholds. Challenge employers who could raise wages and choose not to do so, by publicizing and promoting an ethical alternative to discourage practices that drive down wages and standards. To learn more, visit www.livingwagevirginia.org

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Unemployed people

The "Day for All People" is the name of VICPP's annual advocacy day at the General Assembly. After the smashing success of the 2021 week-long virtual advocacy week, the organization has decided to hold both an in-person and a virtual Day for All People in 2022. The in-person day will be January 19, but virtual activities will be available the entire week of January 17-21, 2022.

Population(s) Served

VICPP has been engaged in health equity work for many years, including advocating medicaid expansion, then helping with outreach to sign folks up for medicaid expansion, outreach with the affordable care act, outreach about new prenatal care provisions for immigrant women (that VICPP helped create) and now helping to understand and address the bio-ethics and trust issues around vaccinations in Black, Brown and immigrant communities.

Population(s) Served
Religious groups

VICPP works statewide to educate workers about wage theft and how to stop it or recover their unpaid wages. VICPP operates a wage theft hotline that workers can call and talk with someone (in English or Spanish) about their situations. VICPP connects workers with attorneys around the commonwealth who handle wage theft cases.

Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people

VICPP engages college and seminary students from across Virginia in advocating economic, racial and social justice. In late January or early February, VICPP hosts a college advocacy day that trains students in participating in the policy process.

Population(s) Served
Young adults

VICPP is working with congregations and denominations to explore ways congregations can use their property or buildings to invest in affordable housing.

Population(s) Served
Religious groups
Economically disadvantaged people

Where we work

  • Alexandria (City of Alexandria, Virginia, United States)

  • Charlottesville (Virginia, United States)

  • Harrisonburg (Virginia, United States)

  • Richmond (Virginia, United States)

  • Virginia (United States)

Affiliations & memberships

HAV Coalition 2024

Virginia Promise Partnership 2024

Faith in Action 2024

Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights 2024

Videos

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Living Wage Certification programs

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Living Wage Certification Program

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

although there were four programs in 2023, we merged with Living Wage for Us so we now have one statewide program.

Annual Day for All People Lobby Day Participants

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Day for All People

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Estimated number of supportive policies secured for the sector

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Context Notes

VICPP wins concrete policy reforms every year. For us it is not just the number of reforms, but the breadth and scope of those reforms.

Number of donations made by board members

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

We seek 100 percent board giving, but we fell short in 2023. We will improve in 2024.

Number of Contacts in Our Database

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of Chapters and Affiliate Groups

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Our regional chapters work at the grassroots level, drawing more voices to the call to advocacy. With support from the Center, chapters organize to meet with legislators in their home districts.

Witness at the Capitol Volunteer Participants

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Input - describing resources we use

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

The Witness at the Capitol team is comprised of volunteers who serve as faithful citizen advocates on the VICPP priority issues during the legislative session. The program slowed during COVID.

Number of new champions or stakeholders recruited

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

We are building a program with congregations where a congregation recruits a liaison. This is the number of congregations with liaisons.

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

VICPP is an advocacy organization, not a service one. Each year the organization sets concrete advocacy and program goals.

On policy and advocacy for 2024-2025, we are working to:
* Raise the minimum wage and extend Paid Sick Days to workers in low-wage jobs.
* Expand access to higher education in prison.
* Reduce the criminalization of poverty.
* Require implicit bias training for healthcare professionals.
* Make it easier for congregations to build affordable housing.

Our program goals are:
* Build consensus around the need to expand higher education in prisons.
* Certify many more employers through the living wage certification program.
* Use the wage theft website and hotline to help workers fight wage theft.
* Engage college and seminary students in the work of VICPP.
* Recruit more congregations and engage them in civic activities.

The Virginia Interfaith Center has a variety of strategies: 1) create education materials about policies and practices to create a more equitable society; 2) meet with and educate elected leaders about policy priorities; 3) engage our members throughout the state in meeting with their elected leaders on the issue priorities; 4) amplifying faith voices in the public sphere through press conferences, online actions and op-eds pieces; 5) developing local programs, such as Living Wage Certification, for example, to model how communities can better serve the common good.

VICPP has a robust and growing grassroots network of people of faith throughout the Commonwealth. We have local chapters in ten communities, volunteer activist in approximately three-quarters of the districts in the state, and strong ties with almost all of the judicatory leaders in the state.

Every year, VICPP sets concrete policy reforms and sets out to achieve them. We have concrete policy changes implemented every year. The progress is updated regularly on the organization's website for each General Assembly session.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We act on the feedback we receive

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Board of directors
as of 8/1/2025
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Rev. Dr. Anthony Fludd

Aliya Farooq

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Andrew Burrichter Director

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Bishop James Coleman Director

Cynthia Bullard-Perez

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Dean Wanderer

Attorney

Keith Jones

Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church

Farah Salam-Hottle

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Hurunnessa Fariad

Multi-Faith Neighbors Network

Jennie Waering

Joshua Jeffreys Director

Mark James

Asst Dean, Virginia Union University

Nilse Furtado-Gilliam

Patrick Anderson

Paul Falabella

Attorney

Jamie Lynn Haskins Director

Anthony L. Fludd Chair

J. Lee Hill

Joshua Mitchell

31st Baptist Church

Linwood Blizzard

Pastor, Macedonia Heathsville Baptist Church

Marcus Small

Patricia Shipley Treasurer

Katie Gooch

The Pace Center

Kelly Bayer Derrick

Assistant to the ELCA Bishop, Virginia Synod

Kendra Grimes

Chaplain, Macon College

Lauren Ramseur

pastor, Voices of Jubilee

Mark Snipes

Rita Willis

Social Justice leader, Third Street Bethel AME

Robin Denise Mines Director

Vicki Fishman

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? yes

Organizational demographics

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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Black/African American
Gender identity
Female

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

Transgender Identity

Sexual orientation

Disability