Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$827,667

Total expenses

$638,267

Contributions and grants received

$592,720

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$234,947

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$617,357

Total liabilities, end of year

$5,834

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$611,523

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$519,164

Management and general expenses

$74,492

Fundraising expenses

$44,611

Program service expenses (Part III)

$519,164

Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• Housing EquityIn 2022 VACV engaged dozens of neighbors in monthly meetings of the Housing and Greening Working Groups, and used the Equitable Development Scorecard to drive conversations about redevelopment of the old Oak Grove school. The scorecard is a tool to score new developments on Richmonds Southside, and prompt a conversation with the developer or the city about how to bring that project more in line with community priorities for the built environment, green space, jobs, safety, traffic, etc.Environmental JusticeWe engaged approximately 20 neighbors through two Greening Working Groups (English & Spanish) which met monthly in 2022. Over the past year, this group built a foundation for well-informed decision-making and fostered the ability of community members to make decisions and vet greening projects on the Southside. The Greening Working Group was representative of the local demographics of Southside with even greater engagement among Spanish-speaking neighbors than we have had in the past, due in large part to the fact that we hired a dedicated Latine Community Advocate: 36% Black, 55% Latine/x, and 9% White. We also mobilized dozens of neighbors and volunteers throughout the year in clean up days and tree planting. The Greening Working Group is now starting to draft a Community-Rooted Greening plan to ensure that implementation of the Citys RVAgreen 2050 Climate Action Plan and other climate resilience work is in alignment with South Richmonders priorities.Community Engagement & Leadership DevelopmentThe RVA Thrives Steering Committee, which is 100% Black, met monthly and continued to identify and study priority issues across neighborhoods with a focus on safety and policing. They reviewed community surveys, participated in one-to-one conversations with staff to share their views on the new leadership academy and healing hubs, and mobilized residents within their individual neighborhoods to participate in clean up days.VACV started a listening process to understand what Southside neighbors want from a leadership academy and healing hub and are halfway toward our goal of 100 responses, of which 50% are from Black and 50% are from Latine neighbors. We plan to start the leadership academy in the fall of 2023. In 2022 we hired a bilingual director and designed a community survey which went through many iterations and reviews by neighbors before being launched. We have also had dozens of one-to-one conversations and interviews with neighbors about the leadership program. We started collecting responses in late 2022 and will continue through the spring of 2023, until we have at least 100 responses. So far we have heard that priorities for change or improvement on the Southside include safety, better infrastructure, affordable childcare, and programs for youth and seniors. Most respondents would like to participate in leadership training and want topics such as how to gather community support for change, connecting with community members to find common ground, understanding city government, and how to find and use data in advocacy. We will continue to listen and learn, and start a small working group to design the leadership academy curriculum while also testing out a few workshops this summer / fall.Youth EngagementYEER stands for Youth Empowerment through Eviction Research. Through YEER, young leaders on Richmond's Southside gain graduate-level participatory action research skills, learn how to craft research questions, and design and implement research methods. In 2022, youth conducted community-based research to understand whether the Citys Eviction Diversion program was successful and they concluded that it was!ARCA stands for Art, Racial Reconciliation, and Civic Advocacy. ARCA is a youth arts summer program led by RVA artists Hamilton Glass and Alfonso Perez. Over the past 4 years, young people have designed traffic-calming street art and advocated to the City of Richmond for permission to paint murals at busy intersections on Richmond's Southside. In 2022, 100% of youth in the ARCA program were Latine, and together they painted benches and signs for the new Broad Rock Creek Park. YEER stands for Youth Empowerment through Eviction Research.Community HealingWe are working on securing a building for the South Richmond Center for Well-Being, a space for healing the bodies, minds, and spirits of people in the historically marginalized Black and Hispanic neighborhoods on Richmonds Southside. We have observed that when people are well, physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually, they can more fully show up to resist oppression and affect positive change in their communities. VACV is developing a Center for Well-Being/Centro de Bienestar to prioritize healing the mind, body and spirit of South Richmond. In 2022, we started a listening process to understand what neighbors would like to see in a community wellness center. So far we have heard that people want a place that is safe and clean, inclusive and designed for the community, a peaceful place, with community gardens, where they can gather with friends and family. People want to access medical and mental health services, activities for physical well-being, yoga, meditation, etc. We will continue the listening process this year while also trying to buy the old Ruffin Road Elementary School building as a site for the healing hub.Equity in PracticeSeeking a way to scale our model of community engagement, Virginia Community Voice wrote and published a guide called Community Voice Blueprint which has been downloaded and shared by hundreds of people across the country. The Blueprint outlines our four-stage process of equitable community engagement:-Listen, to identify community strengths & challenges;-Connect, to organize people around key issues;-Craft, to collaborate on equitable solutions; and,-Reflect, to gather feedback for impact and improvement.VACV has developed training, coaching, and an Organizational Equity Improvement Process based on our model of equitable engagement. More than 300 people from more than 150 different institutions in the Richmond region, state of Virginia and the U.S. have been trained by VACV since fall 2019 and 3 organizations have participated in our year-long Organizational Equity Improvement process. More than 90% of participants say they would recommend our training to their colleagues. Additionally, coaching and Organizational Equity Improvement process clients have shared that this work has been highly transformative for their organizational culture.In 2022, Virginia Community Voice trained 39 unique organizations and more than 200 people.

  Expenses $519,164

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

3 May 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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