Meet Your Nonprofit, a weekly profile of nonprofit organizations in our community, is brought to you by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. In a paragraph or two, describe your nonprofit’s mission. Charlottesville Community Bikes is a non-profit bicycle shop that works with Virginia Organizing (VO) to promote environmentally-sound transportation, recycle bicycles, and make cycling accessible […]
Now more than ever, nonprofit local journalism merits greater investment
Charlottesville Tomorrow’s annual fund drive is in full swing. Our goal is to raise $200,000 by December 31, 2017. Thanks to our supporters who have donated since September, we are well on our way to meeting this goal. With your partnership, we can surpass our goal, ensuring our nonprofit newsroom not only continues to provide […]
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
Meet Your Nonprofit, a weekly profile of nonprofit organizations in our community, is brought to you by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Describe your nonprofit’s mission. The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression is a unique organization, devoted solely to the defense of free expression in all its forms. While its charge […]
Peaceful Passings Senior Animal Rescue
Meet Your Nonprofit, a weekly profile of nonprofit organizations in our community, is brought to you by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Describe your nonprofit’s mission. Our mission is to save senior animals. Our vision is a world where no animal is euthanized because of age pr medical challenge when a quality of life remains. […]
International Neighbors
Meet Your Nonprofit, a weekly profile of nonprofit organizations in our community, is brought to you by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Describe your nonprofit’s mission. The mission of International Neighbors is to serve our refugee neighbors by offering a network of support services, people, and opportunities. We strive to create cross-cultural awareness and appreciation […]
Wintergreen Adaptive Sports
Meet Your Nonprofit, a weekly profile of nonprofit organizations in our community, is brought to you by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Describe your nonprofit’s mission. To provide outdoor sports and recreational opportunities for persons with disabilities, of all ages and with all types of disabilities–physical, cognitive, and sensory. What need in our community brought […]
Community Investment Collaborative
Meet Your Nonprofit, a weekly profile of nonprofit organizations in our community, is brought to you by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Describe your nonprofit’s mission. CIC’s mission is to strengthen our community and contribute to economic development by fueling the success of under-resourced entrepreneurs through education, mentoring, micro-lending and networking. Our program includes: -A […]
Hospice of the Piedmont
Meet Your Nonprofit, a weekly profile of nonprofit organizations in our community, is brought to you by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Describe your nonprofit’s mission. To positively transform the way people view and experience serious illness, dying, and grief. What need in our community brought about the creation of your nonprofit? The need for […]
Sold: Brown Automotive becomes Umansky Automotive
A Memphis-based car dealership chain bought Charlottesville’s Brown Automotive Group, an institution in the community for nearly 40 years, on September 19. Umansky Automotive Group, a family-operated company, has 850 employees across 16 dealerships, says owner Dan Umansky. The five local Brown dealerships will be his first locations in Virginia, with the others in […]
City’s EDA offers financial assistance opportunity in wake of rallies
The Charlottesville Economic Development Authority recently passed a resolution that offers financial support — up to $100,000 — to the city for relief efforts following the white nationalist rallies of July 8 and Aug. 12. Drafted in response to the violence that ensued in the city at those events, particularly the Aug. 12 rally, […]