A Year in Review: VCN’s Annual Report from Spring 2024-Winter 2025
Cover photo by Blaine Fitzgerald Burnside at Sunflower Farm in Prince William County.
Thanks to highly coordinated efforts, VCN has grown to over 170 environmental organizations throughout the year. With an increasing number of VCN Partners engaged in the work, VCN achieved record-breaking numbers: 45 policy papers highlighting unique environmental issues were published in Our 2025 Common Agenda written by a collective 99 individuals across our Network.
This year’s Annual Report reviews Virginia Conservation Network’s work from Spring 2024 to Winter 2025. While it feels almost impossible to cover everything we worked on last year in only a few pages, we did our best to squeeze in the top highlights, including:
- our strategy to advance conservation initiatives year-round,
- our Network Partners and the work they did in our five main issue areas,
- our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice,
- and more!
Take a sneak peek at the numbers
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