Contracts
Virginia Beach-based SAW Contracting Inc. has been awarded the mental health building for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Hampton, a new construction project.
The commercial construction company will partner with E.T. Gresham to complete the $7.3 million, 25,000-square-foot project.
SAW Contracting is a small and minority-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned business and disadvantaged business enterprise.
Arvon Staffing Virginia LLC has selected JASE Group LLC as its creative agency of record for its Virginia Beach and Newport News offices and for its corporate brand.
Arvon has signed on to the JASE Small Business Marketing System initiative through which the agency will provide creative website design, search engine optimization, social media integration, implementaion of the JASE Office CMS, online content marketing and creative email newsletter development.
The Norfolk Economic Development Authority has hired the law firm of Kaufman & Canoles as its legal representative. Attorney George Consolvo will represent K&C.
Williams Mullen was the authority's previous law firm.
Germono Advertising Co. of Norfolk has been hired by LUSH Wine Events, a wine-tasting event company based in the Washington, D.C., market, to help promote its series of wine camps, each accommodating 10 wine enthusiasts.
The first wine camp will take place Sept. 22-25 in the Charlottesville area and will include winery visits headlined by Trump Winery. For more information, visit www.lushevents.com.
Partnership
The Studio Center Network, a division of Virginia Beach-based Studio Center, announced a new partnership with iHeartMedia's 8-station cluster in Louisville.
The Studio Center Network, an audio and video creative platform offered through KMG Networks, a division of Krantz Media Group, provides custom production to broadcast groups across the country.
Grants
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation has awarded $438,865 in seed and program grants to seven nonprofits in Hampton Roads during its second round of community grant funding for 2015:
- Elevate Early Education, $125,000 over two years for The New E3 School in Norfolk to help develop an early education curriculum package that can be replicated in the region and commonwealth.
- Together We Can Foundation, $115,865 over three years for the Smart Transitions Guide Project that will help ninth-graders in area cities start creating post-secondary plans for adulthood and careers.
- Communities in Schools, $50,000 for a site coordinator for two Norfolk Public Schools to help with a dropout prevention program.
- YWCA South Hampton Roads, $48,000 for curriculum and materials for four Tidewater Community College Child Development Centers that serve area preschoolers.
- Chesapeake Bay Academy, $35,000 for a pilot Make CBA course to help students with learning differences develop businesses using a Junior Achievement curriculum and a maker space for hands-on learning.
- Portsmouth Schools Foundation, $35,000 for the CHANGE dropout prevention program to help keep suspended Portsmouth Public School students on track with their studies.
- The Salvation Army, Hampton Roads Area, $30,000 over two years for the HeartStrings program, which teaches violin to elementary students from Title 1 schools in Norfolk and Virginia Beach. The teachers are professional musicians with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
Awards & honors
Hampton Roads Transit has been awarded the LEED level of certification established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute.
The award covers the new southside administration and bus maintenance campus at 509 E. 18th St. in Norfolk. The project, which opened in 2011, provides space for all southside bus maintenance, parking for the bus fleet, a refueling station, a body shop and space for administrative functions.
Among the many green design and construction features that positively affected the project was the reduction of potable water use by 45.7 percent from a calculated baseline design through the installation of low-flow urinals, lavatory faucets, showers and kitchen sinks and through the capture of rain water for use in bus-wash operations.
Scholarships
Two Virginia students are among the eight student members of Chartway Federal Credit Union and its divisions of HeritageWest and SouthWest Community who have received $3,000 each in academic aid.
For 26 years the Virginia Beach-based credit union's Directors' Memorial Scholarship program has annually awarded scholarships to deserving student members pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Recipients include Murell Weimar of Virginia Beach who will attend George Mason University and Jena Araojo of Ivor who will attend the College of William & Mary.
Five winners are from schools in Utah and one is from North Carolina.
Sponsorships
Bon Secours Virginia Health System is the presenting sponsor for the 2015 Youth Leadership Alliance Class.
Sponsored by the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the Youth Leadership Alliance is an intensive one-week summer program that gives students a crash course in what the Peninsula business community has to offer, including entertainment, retail, technology, public safety, transportation, government and public policy. Students will tour businesses in a variety of industries and speak with community leaders. The goal is to reduce the migration of young local talent on the Peninsula by cultivating high school students who are leaders in their schools and communities.
Additional sponsorship opportunities by businesses are available, including the opportunity to sponsor a student for $250 and the opportunity to sponsor a leadership day for $1,000.
The program will take place Aug. 10-14.
For more information, contact Jemal Harris at 325-8157 or jharris@vpcc.org.
