Lend your voice of support to our cause.
When you become an Advocate with Cornerstones, you take an active role in creating meaningful enduring change which benefits our entire community.
As an Advocate with Cornerstones, you influence policies and initiatives that help:
Build and Preserve Affordable Housing
- Produce and preserve housing that is affordable and close to or accessible via public transit to work, schools, and community assets for inclusive and diverse neighborhoods
- Protect vulnerable renters and prevent displacement
Invest in Connected and Resilient Children, Youth, and Families
- Invest in children and youth, from cradle to career
Provide Opportunities for Workers to Earn a Living Wage
- Provide education, training and support for career pathway jobs
- Create living wage jobs that help families build assets
- Increase job access and remove barriers to employment for disadvantaged workers
Promote Racial and Social Equity
- Eliminate racial and social inequities in systems, policies and practices by promoting equity, inclusion and opportunity
Becoming an Advocate with Cornerstones is simple!
- Click the sign up button and provide your contact information.
- We’ll email you information on upcoming issues and how you can have an impact.
- Take Action!
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Take Action
What You Can Do Now!
What We’re Asking For in 2020!
- Increase the local investment for affordable housing production by the equivalent of an additional one penny of the real estate tax to implement the Housing Strategic Plan
- Make permanent the local housing preservation fund (the “Penny Fund”)
- A local housing subsidy that supports unmet housing options for those who are vulnerable or have special needs
- Increased investments in the Virginia Housing Trust Fund and permanent supportive housing
- A fully refundable Virginia Earned Income Tax Credit
- Expanded access to high quality early education for all at-risk three and four year olds
Learn How to be an Advocate in Your Community!
Our Partners and Campaigns
What We’re Doing!
Vote!
Election Day for 2019 is November 5
Every year is an election year in Virginia. This year, all 40 seats in the Virginia Senate and all 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates are up for re-election, as well as many local offices. To view a sample ballot, visit Fairfax County’s election website.
It is important that you register by NEXT TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 to be eligible to vote in the 2019 elections. To register, or confirm you’re already registered to vote, click here.
To learn more about our election process and voter information, you are welcome to visit The League of Fairfax Women Voters.
Build and Preserve Affordable Housing
Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance (NVAHA)
Virginia Housing Alliance
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Fairfax-Falls Church Community Partnership to Prevent and End Homelessness
Fairfax County Affordable Housing Advisory Committee (AHAC)
Invest in Connected and Resilient Children, Youth, and Families
Voices for Virginia’s Children
The Commonwealth Institute of Virginia
Social Action Linking Together
V.O.I.C.E.
Fairfax County Alliance for Human Services
Provide Opportunities for Workers to Earn a Living Wage
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
Promote Racial and Social Equity
Below are examples of Cornerstones’ recent advocacy work: