The Virginia Progressive Leadership Project exists to recruit, train, encourage and cultivate community leaders and activists across the Commonwealth. We focus on leadership development for Virginians who share our values:
VAPLP seeks to cultivate leaders who adhere to the following principles:
The Virginia Progressive Leadership Project is committed to creating a progressive leadership development model that works to address structural and racial inequities. This commitment includes not only VAPLP’s responsibility to recruit and train a cohort of leaders that reflect the demographics of the Commonwealth, but also to develop a greater understanding among civic and community leaders of inequalities based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion and citizenship.