Our Teams
We organize our work through four types of groups, each designed to support different kinds of engagement and collaboration.
Portfolio Teams align with portfolio lead positions on the Executive Committee (ExCo). These are ongoing teams that coordinate or contribute to a specific functional area of work across Indivisible Charlottesville. These teams bring together members with relevant skills and resources to strengthen organizational capacity, and to support campaigns or other teams as needed. Join a Portfolio Team if you want to contribute specialized skills, help build long-term organizational strength, support multiple programs or campaigns, and collaborate closely with leadership in a particular functional area. To join one of these teams: 1) Review the portfolios listed out for each ExCo member; 2) Email the ExCo member whose team you are interested in joining.
Program Teams: Program Teams are longer-term teams focused on ongoing areas of focused work. They enable fast, real-time coordination, quick decision-making, and continuous conversation so everyone stays informed. These teams may be closely aligned to one or more portfolios, but they might also stand alone. Program Team members actively participate in ongoing organizing, contribute their time and skills, collaborate closely with others, and help shape strategy and execution in a specific area of work (like mutual aid, protests etc.).
Project Teams: Project Teams are short-term teams formed to plan, coordinate, and execute a specific action or event. Once the project concludes, the team and its communication thread are closed. Project teams sometimes grow out of program teams or portfolio teams, but may also emerge in other ways. Project team members plug into clearly defined, time-limited efforts, help bring a specific action or event to life, and work intensively with others around a shared goal.
Interest Groups: Interest Groups are email-based lists that bring together people who share a common cause or area of concern. They are used to send messages, updates, and information to a large audience at once, fostering shared discussion or serving as announcement channels. Join an Interest Group if you want to stay informed, learn more about a specific issue, share ideas or resources, and be part of broader conversations without committing to real-time coordination or ongoing organizing work. We have interest groups organized in the following areas:
Abortion Access/Reproductive Rights: This group shares information, resources, and updates related to abortion access and reproductive rights, and helps connect people to local and national efforts to protect and restore reproductive freedom. Members may also coordinate or share opportunities for local action and support.
Building Alternatives: This group focuses on sharing ideas, resources, and examples of how communities are advancing alternative visions for governance and building power within our own communities.
Climate Change/Protecting the Environment: This group shares information, research, and action opportunities related to climate change and environmental protection, with an emphasis on local impacts and ways our community can engage through advocacy, education, and organizing.
Defending Democracy & Civic Institutions: This group focuses on sharing information about threats to democratic norms and civic institutions, highlighting opportunities for civic engagement, public accountability, and coordinated local responses.
LGBTQ+ Rights/Protection: This group shares information, resources, and action opportunities related to LGBTQ+ rights and protections, with a focus on supporting trans people and other vulnerable members of the community through education, advocacy, and local organizing.