The Greene County Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to advancing the economic vitality and quality of life in the Greene County area so that the entire community shall prosper.
LevelUp Physical Therapy
Senior Stretch is part of our Forever Fit wellness program
With an aging body comes decreased flexibility, which leads to decreased activity. But it doesn't have to. You CAN regain flexibility at ANY age. By improving your flexibility, not only will you be improving the range of motion in each of your joints, but you’re going to find yourself moving around with greater ease. All those daily movements will seem so much easier, and you’ll feel yourself becoming free of painful movements and improving posture. Stretching can help in decreasing tension and stress, resulting in a positive mindset, relaxed body and feeling good!
Join us as we take you through basic full body stretches to improve flexibility, improve postural alignment, and increase an overall feeling of comfort. The program is a 30 min session 1x/week on Thursday for 6 weeks.
Begins September 30, 2021
Cost $75 for the 6 week program.
Register at: www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4FABAE23A5FBC70-forever1
LevelUp Physical Therapy
Check your Balance is part of our Forever Fit wellness program.
It is specifically designed to increase activity, balance, and proprioception, thus reducing fear of falling and/or incidence of falling. In person max per class is 10 people-Min of 6 individuals for classes to be conducted. The program is a 30 min session 1x/week on Tuesdays for 6 weeks.
Begins September 28, 2021
Cost $75 for the 6 week program.
Register at:
www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4FABAE23A5FBC70-forever
Pioneer Bank
Local branch:
8315 Spotswood Trail
Stanardsville, VA 22973
(434) 990-6515
Thank you for joining us for the GCOC Monthly Membership Breakfast hosted by Make it HOME - Staging and Design!
A beautiful array of culinary delights were enjoyed while networking with GCOC Members!
See you next month!
Thank you so much for hosting. It was perfect!!!
September 2021 Chamber Chatter!!!
We look forward to seeing everyone at the upcoming events!
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Welcome September!
Sunrise/Sunset Calendar 🌄 🌅
courtesy of:
Billy Arbour/BA Photographic Design
808-874-5175
www.BAPhotographicDesign.com
BAPhotographicDesign@yahoo.com
The Equinox (Vernal & Autumnal) There are only two times of the year when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a "nearly" equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes. These events are referred to as Equinoxes.The word equinox is derived from two Latin words - aequus (equal) and nox (night).
Thank you for attending the Ribbon Cutting at The Copper Poppy!!!
Did you know they have 3000 sq ft of space for finding that perfect antique? Congrats on your Grand Opening & Much Success to you! 🎉
Loved seeing your beautiful store and antiques!
Thank you so much Greene County Chamber of Commerce!! 😄
Congratulations!
Cannot wait to visit!!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting tomorrow at The Copper Poppy!
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Come hear more about current real estate market trends, and how staging a home can make the difference in the sale at our September breakfast! www.greenecoc.org/event/september-breakfast/This beautiful home off of #Rockland had such a great floor plan and layout that we got to be creative with some extra spaces.
#makeithome #makeithomestaginganddesign #offthemarket #stagingthatsells #designthatsells
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville is currently hiring a Director of Regional Housing whose work would be conducted in Charlottesville, as well as Greene and Louisa Counties.
Please see details below if interested.
Job Title: Director of Regional Housing
Position Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Reports to: Director of Operations
Employment Type: Full‐time, Salaried. Includes some evenings and weekends.
Current as of: July 1, 2021
Benefits include: Health, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and paid holidays, mobile phone allowance, contribution to retirement account and discount on purchases at the Habitat Store located in the City of Charlottesville.
Overview:
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville (Habitat) is a cutting edge non-profit housing organization creating simple, decent, affordable homes in partnership with low-income families, volunteers and the communities of the Greater Charlottesville region. Home construction capacity is multiplied by a volunteer labor force including homeowner families, corporate, civic, and church groups. Habitat is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), a global ministry working to end housing poverty world-wide.
In 2013 Habitat completed construction at Sunrise, the first trailer park transformation in the nation without resident displacement. Currently, Habitat owns and operates the Southwood Trailer Park with a similar goal of redeveloping it responsibly and compassionately as a mixed-income, mixed-use, sustainable community for current and future residents. Southwood is the area’s largest single concentration of affordable housing and its greatest remaining redevelopment opportunity. When complete, the redeveloped Southwood will be unprecedented in scale nationally.
Additionally, Habitat is a national pioneer in mixed-income community development. To date, Habitat has built or built in nine mixed income neighborhoods and built and sold more than 200 homes.
Habitat’s current five year strategic plan concentrates activities into three areas: Building, Rebuilding, and Housing System Development.
Building. Habitat’s primary goal in the first realm has been to build and/or renovate and sell 20+ homes each year in the Greater Charlottesville region, while creating durable mixed-income communities. Habitat sells homes at no profit and originates 0% loans so that families earning between 25% and 60% of area median income can become homeowners.
Rebuilding. Habitat is focusing on the holistic transformation of the Southwood Mobile Home Park into a sustainable 1,000+ unit mixed income, mixed use community, anchored by a core, commercial downtown of resident-incubated and owned businesses. Habitat is also strategically investing in affordable homeownership in other key neighborhoods in the region and utilizing home repair as a force multiplier for community improvement.
Housing System Development. Habitat seeks to change the conditions that contribute to housing poverty by working strategically and in coalitions to catalyze greater sector coordination, advocacy, and marketplace innovation so that everyone in the region can find a pathway to safe, decent, affordable housing.
In preparation for the 2021 launch of physical redevelopment of Southwood, Habitat is restructuring operations in order to double our current building production capacity. The Director of Regional Housing will be central in helping the organization achieve the next step in its growth, while specifically addressing housing needs identified by the communities of Louisa and Greene Counties.
For approximately two decades, operations in Louisa and Greene have largely been undertaken by exceptionally committed volunteer steering committees. The chapters in Louisa and Greene have operated under Habitat’s 501 (c) 3 and reported to Habitat’s CEO and Board of Directors. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2020, operations in the two counties began to merge with central office operations in order to significantly increase the scale of impact across the three areas of the strategic plan. Whereas the two chapters have been building or rebuilding about 1-3 homes collectively per year, the combined goal over the next five years is to build 30 homes, conduct 80 critical home repairs and serve 200 more families via advocacy.
Scope of Responsibilities:
The Director of Regional Housing will work with key stakeholders -- the Habitat CEO and Senior Leadership Team; members of the Greene and Louisa county Operating Committees and volunteers, the Habitat Land Development and Construction team and others – to develop and implement an operational plan to meet the goals of the affiliate’s five year strategic plan.
Prerequisite Requirements:
• Positive, “can do” personality
• Commitment to Habitat for Humanity’s mission of service to others
• Understanding of rural communities
• Commitment to asset-based community development
• Nonprofit experience
• High level of strategic thinking
• High level experience in project management
• Experience in organizational development
• Experience in relationship management and building partnerships
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent writing, communications and leadership skills
• Strong discretion and judgment
• Demonstrated ability to multi‐task, plan, organize, and implement multiple projects
• Command knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other common database software
• Ability to work with volunteers, including board level individuals
• Fundraising experience preferred
Core Responsibilities:
• Work with Habitat’s land development team to create an inventory of affordable and buildable lots in Greene and Louisa counties to meet or exceed the affiliate’s strategic goals.
• Work with Habitat’s construction team to design, plan and implement construction of new homes.
• Work with Habitat’s Department of Family and Community Partnerships, along with volunteers from the rural counties, to recruit, vet, select and coach partner families from both the rural counties and the region’s urban area who will purchase homes in Louisa and Greene.
• Work with Habitat’s Compliance Officer, along with reporting and compliance volunteers from the rural counties, to secure third party loans or originate loans for partner family homebuyers.
• Work with Habitat’s volunteer manager, along with volunteers from the rural counties, to recruit and coordinate volunteers.
• Work with Habitat’s Advancement Department, along with volunteers in advancement and marketing from the rural counties, to generate and implement an annual fundraising and communications plan.
• Work with Habitat CFO to develop and maintain an annual budget.
• Work with Habitat’s Director of Operations, Director of Construction and volunteers from the rural counties, to develop and implement a home repair program.
• Work with Habitat’s Associate Director of Community Partnerships and advocacy volunteers and organizers from the rural counties, to develop and implement an affordable housing advocacy campaign specific to each jurisdiction.
• Interface and build relationships with key stakeholders in each community, including government officials, business leaders, community champions, prospective donors, low-income community leaders, etc.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville is an equal opportunity employer. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. If you are asked to interview and require modifications, please let us know.
It was so great to see those who joined us at the Ice Cream Social! A special thank you to Maybelle’s Market for hosting and Armstrong & Associates for sponsoring this fun event! 🍦💕
So nice to see everyone from the Chamber and if you haven’t tried Maybelle’s ice cream, it is excellent (my personal recommendation is the salted caramel crunch😎)
Can’t wait to see everyone on Thursday! Don’t forget to register!
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August 2021 Chamber Chatter!!!
We look forward to seeing everyone at the upcoming events!
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Welcome August 2021!
Sunrise/Sunset Calendar courtesy of:
Billy Arbour/BA Photographic Design
808-874-5175
www.BAPhotographicDesign.com
BAPhotographicDesign@yahoo.com
A beautiful night in Stanardsville for Groovin in Greene! Great food, great music, beer, wine and great friends until 10 pm at the Pavilion! See you soon!
Wonderful event with nice music, good food, and cool temps!
We had so much fun!
What is this all about?
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!"
Can't wait to see everyone next Thursday!
Please follow the link in the event details for registration.🍨🍦
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Thank you to the sponsors for making this event possible in our community!
Lawson Benefits at Work/BOST
Edward Jones, Marianne Shepard
Artale Consulting, LLC
Maybelle’s MarketHere are some more of our great local sponsors for Saturday’s event!
Bost Benefits - www.bostbenefits.com/lawson
Artale Consulting, LLC
Edward Jones - www.edwardjones.com/us-en/financial-advisor/marianne-shepard
Maybelle’s Market
Thank you to the sponsors for making this event possible in our community!
Blue Ridge Trailers
Greene County VA Tourism
Ruckersville Self Storage, www.ruckersvilleselfstorage.com
Piper Ivy PreschoolMeet four more of our July 31 concert sponsors! Thank you all for your support!
Blue Ridge Trailers - www.blueridgetrailer.com/
Greene County VA Tourism
Ruckersville Self Storage - www.ruckersvilleselfstorage.com
Piper Ivy Preschool
Thank you to the sponsors for making this event possible in our community!
Josh Griffith Agency - Farmers Insurance
Make it HOME - Staging and Design
Thank you to t
ProTech Lawn and LandscapeFree concerts can't be free without generous sponsors! Please support these local businesses when you can!
Josh Griffith Agency - Farmers Insurance
Terrace Greene - North Charlottesville, VA
Make it HOME - Staging and Design
ProTech Lawn and Landscape
We sure appreciate everyone's support - thank you! <3
Greene County is ready to groove
This Thursday, July 29th, we will have 50/50 raffle tickets available for pre-sale from 10 am until 12:30 pm at our clinic at 39 Stanard Street in Stanardsville. Tickets are $1 each. Just knock on our front door and someone will come out to help you! We will sell tickets during the event and the winner of the 50/50 raffle will be announced on Saturday, July 31st at the Groovin' In Greene FREE CONCERT - Orion and The Melted Crayons event at Greene Commons (we'll let you know what time later this week). We sure appreciate everyone's support of our clinic and it's mission to provide FREE health care to the eligible uninsured in our community! <3
PRESS RELEASE: Virginia Chamber Statement on Virginia’s Recognition as “Best Business Climate” by Business Facilities
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – Barry DuVal, President and CEO of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, issued the following statement regarding Virginia’s recognition as “Best Business Climate” by Business Facilities. The Business Facilities 17th Annual State Ranking Report, released today, is available at cdn.businessfacilities.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/BF2021-Rankings_State_Metro-Global-C-1.pdf.
“Virginia’s recognition as Business Facilities’ Best Business Climate is a testament to our world-class talent initiatives and strong economy. Virginia has advanced strategies to support our tech ecosystem and foster a strong tech talent pipeline. We are proud of this recognition and look forward to working with policymakers to support continued economic growth and ensure Virginia remains recognized as the top state for business.”
In addition to the recognition as the ”Best Business Climate”, Virginia also received the top recognition in the Tech Talent and Cybersecurity categories. Virginia also ranked among the top ten states in the Customized Training, Offshore Wind Power, Most Educated, and Highest Average Income categories.
A little shout out to all our 🌟GCOC Gold Members🌟!!!
Ruckersville Domino's
Armstrong & Associates International, Inc.
Terrace Greene
Make it HOME - Staging and Design
Lawson Benefits/BOST
LevelUp Physical Therapy
Josh Griffith Agency - Farmers Insurance
Howard Hanna/Roy Wheeler Realty Company - Greene County
Fulton Mortgage Company
Blue Ridge Coffee Crafters
Cottages at Chesley Creek Farm
Artale Consulting, LLC
The Greene Hills Club
Maybelle’s Market
Blue Ridge Trailers
Piper Ivy Preschool
Stacia Rice, Realtor
The Copper Poppy
Web Weaving
Trey Durham, Keller Williams, Cvillehomes.com
Smart Systematic Selling
Hidden Acres Farm Kitchen
For more information on these businesses and contact information, please visit:
www.greenecoc.org/members/gold-membership/
Thanks so much. Happy to be a part of such a great community
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This amazing flip in Earlysville was so fun! The home was originally constructed in the early 1900s, and has received several additions over the years which required us to really lean into our creative sides when staging!
#MakeitHome #makeithomestaginganddesign #stagingthatsells #designthatsells
Thank you, Joe Porterfield, with Avenue Realty, LLC for including us on such a fun project, it was such a pleasure to work with you all!
We are pleased to announce our food vendors for the July 31st concert! Todd and his team at Maybelle’s Market have designed a delicious menu. The Sprinkles ice cream truck will also be there!
Both will be contributing a portion of their sales income to Greene Care Clinic, so bring your appetite!!!
Upcoming Classes at CV SBDC!
Starting Your Business
Monday, August 10, 10am-12pm
Thinking about starting a small business?
Have you started…but maybe missed some critical information?
This workshop is for you!
We review the steps for a successful start, the registrations and regulations, and the components of sound business planning, including financial projections.
Follow-up appointments are then available with SBDC, SCORE, and/or CIC business advisors to focus on your concept development, business profile, and/or business plans, including financial projections.
Register at cvsbdc.org/event/starting-your-business-20/
Starting Your Business – Central Virginia Small Business Development Center
cvsbdc.org
You will receive an email from events@cvsbdc.org a day or two before the workshop with the link to join, handouts and the presentation. Please check you spam if you do not receive this email.
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Upcoming Classes at CV SBDC
Marketing Monday
Marketing & Social Media NOW
August 2 | 12:00 PM EST
Join us during your lunch and learn how to build (or rebuild) your online strategy.
In this virtual workshop, participants will learn about creating a strategy for connecting with clients through:
• Website
• Email marketing
• Social media
You'll also learn tips and tools to make your plan more efficient.
Register at cvsbdc.org/event/marketing-monday-marketing-social-media-now-4/
Marketing Monday: Marketing & Social Media NOW – Central Virginia Small Business Development Center
cvsbdc.org
Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email from centeric@clients.virginiasbdc.org, our automated system. This email will contain the ZOOM LINK to join the workshop. If you cannot find the ...A brand new concert series that will include great local live music, food, beverages, and other vendors in Greene County! Keep your eyes open for event announcements!
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A concert series sponsored by the Greene Chamber of Commerce and members to benefit various charitable and community oriented organizations in Greene County, Virginia.Yay! June, Alisha, Sara, Ashley, Victoria
How fun! 🕺🏻💃🏼
How exciting for Greene!!
The office of Economic Development and Tourism is sponsoring a Job Fair for Greene County Businesses. We recognize the job market is very tight, and we want to assist your businesses in finding quality workers. While we will advertise for applicants wider than Greene County, we are hoping to attract residents that live in Greene to encourage them to work here as well. We will promote to potential applicants the are great jobs right here in our own community, the increase in quality of life by not traveling on Rt 29, and the cost savings with transportation.
GREENE COUNTY JOB FAIR
Ruckersville Elementary School
July 19, 2021
2:00 - 6:00 PM
Reserve your spot now by completing this simple form. forms.gle/zHeS81xz1EZsngeb6
What a great milestone, chamber member Anytime Fitness Ruckersville, Va, congratulations!💜14 Years💜
The first picture was taken 14 years ago when we first opened our doors, the second picture was taken today. Our boys have grown up seeing exactly what hard work is and what it means to run a family business.
2020 was something that we never saw coming. We’re thankful to have that chapter behind us and are ready to keep pushing forward!
We have some new things coming this summer:
🟣New Life Fitness Biceps Curl/Triceps Extension Selectorized Machine
🟣VendTek Vending Machine
🟣Full set of Life Fitness EZ-curl bars
🟣New Cubbies
We love our fitness family members. We wouldn’t be here without you!
Congratulations!
GCOC Chamber Chatter - July 2021
Don't miss reading through this issue! Lots of information on upcoming events (and even more being planned as we post this!)
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Thank you for joining us this morning at Murphy's Coffee & Bagel House for our Member
Appreciation event hosted by Josh Griffith Agency - Farmers Insurance and Piper Ivy Preschool!
We enjoyed seeing everyone and look forward to connecting again soon! 🥯 ☕️ 💚
What a great event. It was so nice to see everyone!!
We so look forward to seeing everyone on Friday!
Please make sure to register (link in invite.)
We Appreciate YOU!!! ☕️🥯💚
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