Glenn Youngkin is a homegrown Virginian who grew up in Richmond and Virginia Beach. As his father changed jobs, Governor Youngkin learned that moving around didn’t equal moving up – nothing was handed to him. From his first job washing dishes and frying eggs at a diner in Virginia Beach, he embraced hard work and responsibility to help his family when his father lost his job. His determination to succeed earned him multiple high school basketball honors in Virginia and an athletic scholarship to college.
This week’s Virginia Business Spotlight is Papa’s Pizzeria and Subs in Pearisburg in Giles County, Virginia.
Papa’s Pizzeria and Subs is a family owned business. They have been serving up pizzas and subs in Pearisburg since 1976, over 41 years! At Papa’s you can get so much more than just pizza and subs including delicious deserts, salads, calzones and wings.
Business Climate and Economic Development:
Promote Virginia’s competitive business climate to maintain the designation as the best state for business.
Poverty:
Develop a clear and consistent anti-poverty policy.
Diversification:
Attract businesses to the Commonwealth that operate in new and growing fields in the 21st century economy. Targeted areas include cyber security and biosciences.
Exports:
Enhance Virginia’s trading relationship with international partners.
Energy:
Promote a diverse and reliable energy supply.
Achievement Gap:
Improve educational success in struggling schools in high poverty communities and expand access to quality early education for all children
K12 Education:
Promote great teaching and learning through accountability reform, emphasize creativity and critical thinking skills, and strengthen support for teachers and educational leaders
Pathways to the 21st Century Workforce:
Strengthen pathways in K-12, community colleges, and throughout higher education, increasing affordable completion of high-demand degrees and credentials
Higher Education Access and Affordability:
Continue to strengthen Virginia’s system of community colleges and four-year institutions and promote greater access and affordability for all Virginians.
Transparency:
Collaborate across secretariats to improve citizens’ access to government data and decision-making processes.
Supplier Diversity:
Ensure that small, women, and minority owned businesses are afforded representative access to government procurement.
State Workforce Succession:
Improve recruitment, retention, and succession planning for the state workforce.
Innovation:
Explore and pursue innovative strategies to increase government efficiency or to reduce government costs for needed services.
Fiscal Stewardship:
Manage public resources efficiently and effectively in challenging economic conditions.
Cyber Security and Upgraded Technology:
Enhance current technology platforms and infrastructure while protecting all data.
Ethics:
Promote a culture within state government that values strong ethics.
Customer Service:
Deliver high quality products and services to customers in a timely manner.
Accessibility:
Encourage user-friendly online services for all citizens.
Restoration of Rights:
Maximize restoration of voting rights for individuals who qualify.
Healthcare Accessibility:
Advance access to high-quality health care for more Virginians.
Behavioral Health:
Strengthen Virginia’s behavioral health system in partnership with hospitals, law enforcement, free clinics and community health centers, private providers, consumers, family members and advocates.
Nutritional Divide:
Promotes strategies to improve nutritious options for Virginians in at-risk circumstances.
Healthcare Innovation:
Embrace innovative models of care and new technologies to improve health outcomes and lower costs.
Women’s Health:
Protect women’s rights to make their own healthcare decisions.
Children and Families:
Promote strategies that encourage a culture of health through stable housing, access to high-quality health care and proper nutrition.
Chesapeake Bay Restoration:
Protect and improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay, by making every effort to meet the goals for nutrient reduction outlined in the federal government’s cleanup plan.
Land Conservation:
Implement a targeted, strategic land conservation plan that protects Virginia’s biodiversity and public access.
Climate Change:
Prepare the Commonwealth for the effects of climate change and reduce the state’s contribution to its causes.
Public Safety:
Protect our citizens and ensure everyone lives in a safe community.
Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness:
Ensure Virginia is prepared to address threats to the safety and security of the Commonwealth and to respond rapidly and efficiently to emergencies.
Gun Violence:
Pursue strategies to ensure all gun owners undergo a background check when purchasing a firearm.
Sexual and Domestic Violence:
Aggressively target sexual and domestic violence for prevention and enforcement.
Smart Sentencing:
Promote improvements to the sentencing process to recognize and treat the root causes of crime thereby reducing recidivism.
Workforce:
Create seamless transitions for Virginia’s veterans with high quality education and workforce services that accelerate career opportunities.
Homeless:
Increase affordable housing opportunities and veterans support programs.
BRAC:
Retain and reinforce Virginia’s military installations and defense activities.
Family Support:
Ensure that Virginia remains the preeminent state for military personnel, their families and veterans.
Supply and Demand:
Align Virginia’s workforce to meet current and anticipated employer demands with career pathways and training solutions for dislocated, underemployed, and future workers.
Credentialing:
Establish annual goals and identify ways to increase statewide credentials that align with employer current and future needs.
New skills:
Facilitate in-demand skills sets for Virginia’s new economy, while fostering private sector innovation and entrepreneurship.
Welcome to Virginia’s grants portal. Since taking office, I have made expanding economic opportunities for all Virginians the top priority of my administration.
Each year, millions of dollars in federal, state, and private funding opportunities are made available to agencies, organizations and individuals for a variety of critical needs.
My administration launched this site after recognizing the need for a one-stop resource that compiles and regularly updates these often hard to find opportunities. Virginia Grants also offers important resources for navigating the complex grants-application process.
It is my hope that through the use of this site, more taxpayer funds will go towards essential services and initiatives that help all Virginians.