Our Challenge
In the Charlottesville region, 5,661 families (18 percent) do not make enough money to pay for the essentials of life—food, shelter, clothing and utilities—and the added costs associated with working—childcare and transportation. Most of these families are single mothers and their children.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to help these families by identifying and helping create jobs within their reach and positioning them to secure and excel in those jobs—real jobs for real people.
Our approach is to amplify the effects of the region’s extensive support services and economic power by deploying existing social networks to connect those resources more directly to the families struggling in our community.
Ridge Schuyler
Director | Charlottesville Works Initiative
209 5th Street, N.E. | Charlottesville, VA 22902
434.996.6780
The mission of Cville Works is “to reduce unemployment and underemployment, and eliminate poverty”