Important announcements from Voting Access For All Coalition
Please watch our Year End Video HERE. Happy New Year! We’re back and we’re so excited for 2023 and the work ahead of us as we fight to reverse and transform systematic disenfranchisement, dis-information and voter suppression, and ensure that all justice-impacted Michiganders have the knowledge and opportunity they need …
VAAC IS BACK FROM HOLIDAY BREAK AND READY FOR OUR 1st MEETING OF THE NEW YEAR! Happy New Year! We’re back from holiday break and we hope you’ve had a joyful, restful holiday break— and are ready to join us for our first coalition meeting of 2023. From continuing the …
As we close out another year, we’d like to express gratitude to our VAAC family. We know that Civic Engagement is more just than voting and that coalition building is power! It’s been a transformative year and we couldn’t have done this work without you. We’re constantly impressed and inspired …
Join Voting Access For All Coalition at our final meeting of the year for an election debrief, reflection on our collective achievements and a look at 2023. Believe it or not the election was only one week ago! Thank you to each and every partner, volunteer, & person that has …
Want to have the power to make an impact in your community? #GivingTuesday is a global giving movement that harnesses the power of people & organizations to change our communities, and this year we’re asking for your support to help us raise 5K. Your gift will help us fund …
The impact of incarceration on dependent children is complex and traumatic. No child should suffer because a parent is currently residing in jail. Every child should enjoy the holidays! To address generational incarceration and ensure that the children of Genesee County Sheriff’s Office detainees have a happy holiday, we are …
We are weeks away from the Nov 8th general election, and we need your help to ensure we use our power at the polls across Michigan. Join the fight! There is too much at stake! We need to ensure that all voices are heard at the polls! Help us to …
This project started with a simple idea that VAAC began to explore at our weekly Friday community meetings (all are welcome!). We do a lot of work helping justice-impacted folks learn that they have the right to vote and how we exercise our vote. Someone in our meeting posed the …
We are so proud to announce that VAAC Member, Tony Gant, will receive Safe & Just Michigan‘s prestigious William G. Milliken Award that recognizes a public official who has shown dedication to advancing criminal justice reform. Safe & Just Michigan invites you to celebrate with the recipients at the first …
Get inspired and get equipped to save democracy with a new film based on the poem, I Belong. Watch the full video at this link! I Belong is a free Get Out the Vote motivational tool, with 2 and 1 minute versions, made exclusively for Greater Detroit activists, to plug …
A fantastic story about VAAC’s work was published in the Detroit Free Press on September 28th, 2022. There is also a video accompanying the article. Click this link if you have a subscription, or read the story below.We are so proud of the VAAC members mentioned in the article and …
It’s happening! Absentee ballots must be available to voters starting today (September 29). Those who would like to vote before Election Day in person (via absentee ballot) may do so starting Friday, 9/29/2022 at their city or township clerk’s office. And those who have already requested an absentee ballot should …
