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WHAT: Access College Foundation, which aids public school students with their college admission and financial aid processes in South Hampton Roads and Northampton County, will award 144 local high school graduates with scholarships during its 2018 annual luncheon. The total scholarship amount is $800,000.
OUTLET: Inside Business
By Nate Delesline III
TowneBank has retained its status as the largest bank in Hampton Roads for a second year.
The bank held 22 percent of the region’s market share with $5.48 billion in deposits. Wells Fargo, with $4.73 billion in deposits, is second with a 19 percent share.
SunTrust, BB&T and Bank of America round out the region’s top five banks. (more…)
When: Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Where: Ted Constant Convocation Center (4320 Hampton Blvd, Norfolk)
April 11, 2018 (Norfolk, Va.) – Nearly 2,200 seniors from the 30 local public high schools will pack the Ted Constant Convocation Center for the third annual College Commitment Day on April 24, 2018 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (more…)
It is probably counter intuitive that a city as large as Virginia Beach (over 450,000 in population) would still rely on volunteers, a fairly rural tradition, to provide emergency medical services.
But if you’re injured or sick in the resort city, the odds are an ambulance manned by regular citizens, well trained to administer life saving care, will arrive at the scene. Today more than a thousand men and women, ages 18 and up, answer the call, many “running” a weekly 12-hour shift that they incorporate into their otherwise busy work or family schedules.
Shouldn’t someone thank them for this sacrifice of their time and energy?
Our plan? A major one-day event called Rock the Squads! at Mount Trashmore where we invite all the volunteers and their families for a free catered lunch, a souvenir t-shirt, a customized challenge coin, a concert featuring a popular local band and an opportunity to be in a mass picture shot from a drone hovering over the crowd.
The result? Mayor Will Sessoms, who spoke on a megaphone to the crowd gathered on the mountain, was thrilled, encouraging us to do this again next year. The volunteers were equally enthusiastic, thanking us profusely for putting the event together. We were particularly proud, watching the paramedics with their parents, grandparents, spouses and children (and grandchildren) frolicking in the park, dancing to The Deloreans in their yellow Rock the Squads! t-shirts and wolfing down the chicken and barbecue. “It made us all feel like a big family,” said one volunteer. This day, all of us at RCG felt like part of that family too.
When the new Constitution Drive extension opened, Ripley Heatwole turned to RCG for a creative idea. Since pedestrians, bicyclists and cars would use the 400-foot bridge, we arranged for students of The Art Institute of Virginia Beach and local bicyclists to be the first to cross it. Instead of making the event solely about a photo op with a ribbon, we turned it into a media opportunity with real footage and excitement.
For the 15th anniversary of the Mission of Mercy (MOM), which has donated millions of dollars in free dental care, RCG came up with the idea of a celebratory (and tooth friendly!) “milk toast” to kick-off each MOM project throughout Virginia. The City of Suffolk, including Mayor Linda Johnson, was a partner in the inaugural event, along with representatives of the school system, police department, Obici Health Care Foundation, Virginia Health Care Foundation, Suffolk Partnership for a Healthy Community and local physicians. Each toast, from Tidewater to Northern Virginia, has generated its own local media attention and provided excellent social media and newsletter content.
Our client, Habitat ReStores of South Hampton Roads, honored its Red Hat volunteers at the 2017 Dream Builders Luncheon on Thursday, December 7 at the Westin in Virginia Beach Town Center.
Thanks to Inside Business for running the photo from the event in a recent issue.
The Red Hats, who oversee construction of the Habitat Homes, were honored as a group as Volunteer of the Year. Many of the Red Hats have volunteered for 10+ years.
Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers who support the mission!
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Habitat for Humanity of South Hampton Roads (Habitat SHR) and Housing Hampton Roads are proud to be named the January 2018 “Charity of the Month” at Wasserhund Brewing Company in Virginia Beach. (more…)
