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Community Investment

COMMUNITY INVESTMENT PROGRAMS (a.k.a. Growing Opportunity and Local Hiring)

The need for an evidence-based, comprehensive approach to ending Charlottesville’s chronic poverty (that disproportionately burdens our Black and Brown communities) became clear in response to then City Councilor Kathleen Galvin’s request for a work session on the subject.

The subsequent 2013 Growing Opportunity Report called for a centralized job center with workforce development programs tied to local employers and a dedicated workforce development specialist tasked with forging partnerships between local government, employers, non-profits, and the community college. All three components were funded, and there are now over 20 Growing Opportunity (GO) programs.

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Growing Opportunities CIP

“Nearly half the children born into poverty stay in poverty the rest of their lives. Ending the cycle of poverty, must include providing a pathway to self-sufficiency for parents.” (A Declaration of Independence: Family Self-Sufficiency in Charlottesville, VA, by Ridge Schuyler and Meg Hannan, September 10, 2011, page 4.)

Image Citation-Courtesy of Charlottesville Downtown Job Center

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Kathleen M. Galvin, Architect FAIA, CNU-A
712 Lyons Avenue
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
Tel: (434) 979-2890 
kg@galvinarchitects.com

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