Business Today
Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce member enterprise news log
Friday, September 24, 2004
The Markets of Tiger Fuel have helped to secure a $4,000 grant from the ExxonMobil Educational Alliance for Johnson Elementary School. The grant was one of 4,000 awarded to schools across the country in communities served by Exxon or Mobil stations.
"We are proud to be part of the efforts of the fine folks at Johnson Elementary School to continue to provide outstanding educational opportunities to the young people of the surrounding community," said Stuart Lowry of Tiger Fuel Company.
The Markets participating in the grant proposal include Cherry Avenue, 5th Street, Bellair, Forest Lakes, Mill Creek, Locust Grove, Emmet Street, and the Town & Country Market at the corner of Rte 29 and Hydraulic Road. The ExxonMobil Educational Alliance program is designed to provide Exxon and Mobil retailers with an opportunity to invest in the future of their communities through educational grants to neighborhood schools.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
WHTJ Charlottesville PBS has received $7,500 from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF), the Owl’s Roost Fund of the CACF, and the Watterson Fund of the CACF to support the local PBS Deliberation Day, a creation of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which WHTJ is convening in October.
"This grant is a testament to our community foundation’s ability to reach out to their donors who want to support important community projects," said Conni Lombardo, vice president and general manager of WHTJ Charlottesville PBS.
WHTJ Charlottesville PBS has been selected by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions’ "By The People" project to convene PBS Deliberation Day on October 16. WHTJ is one of 17 sites, and the only one in Virginia, chosen to gather citizens to participate in a day-long democratic dialogue where they will examine key election issues with people who have differing views, followed by a deliberative polling experiment. In addition to the CACF, WHTJ is partnering with Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) and the League of Women Voters on this effort.
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Dominion Digital, a consulting company specializing in business process management that improves clients’ performance, announced today that senior consultant Michael Kittel has co-authored a book titled ASP.NET Cookbook with former company consultant Geoffrey LeBlond. ASP.NET Cookbook, which provides hands-on solutions geared toward programmers, is available today at O’Reilly Media and Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN).
Mr. Kittel says his expertise stems from leading the development of richly functional web-based projects for Dominion Digital’s customers, starting with an alpha release of ASP.NET 1.0. LeBlond’s unique experience comes from having written several bestselling computer books.
"This cookbook is a combination of our joint experience. We were unable to find a book that provided the kind of working examples that we as professional developers really needed and that spoke to us at the right level. So we decided to write one ourselves," said Mr. Kittel.
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce today - in advance of the Labor Day weekend - released its "Chamber Jobs Report," a comprehensive 10-year compilation and analysis of employment in the Greater Charlottesville region which shows job growth overall but a decline of jobs in private enterprise since 2000.
The Chamber Jobs Report showed that total jobs in Greater Charlottesville grew from 79,889 jobs in 1994 to 93,769 jobs in 2003, an overall increase of 17.4% or 13,880 jobs - a healthy job-producing and sustaining rate. However, the Report reveals a troublesome trend: jobs in private enterprise, which grew between 1994-2000, have decreased each year since -from 67,193 in 2000 to 66,136 in 2003 - a net decrease of 1,057 private sector jobs (-1.6%).
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