UVA Forward Registration is OPEN!

Registration for UVA Forward 2019 is now open!

UVA Forward will be held on Wednesday, June 19th, at the Darden Business School. We hope that you will find many of the sessions to be timely and relevant to your personal or professional development and that you connect with this year’s theme, “Cultivating Community.” To read more about the sessions and the speakers and to register, please visit the UVA Forward website at forward.virginia.edu.

Cultivating Community

Our theme this year centers around community and our role within it.  We are excited to host organizations from outside of UVA to participate in the “poster gallery” for the first time. They will share information about their services and volunteer opportunities.

The following local nonprofits and agency plan to join us this year:

• Computers4Kids (CFK)
• Houses of Wood & Straw (HOWS)
• Literacy Volunteers Charlottesville / Albemarle
• Live Arts
• Shelter for Help in Emergency
• United Way (Thomas Jefferson Area)
• Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) – to provide info about Real ID

We're also pleased to have these UVA guests:

• Contemplative Sciences Center
• Hoo’s Well
• Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
• School of Continuing & Professional Studies
• UVA Library

Donation Drive

We will also be hosting a donation drive to benefit the Shelter for Help in Emergency who assist victims of domestic violence through their shelter and outreach services. We will be collecting the following items from their wish list at the conference. Participation in the drive is optional but greatly appreciated.

• Toilet Paper
• Paper Towels
• Tissues
• Laundry Detergent Pods (HE only)
• Dish Detergent
• 13 Gallon Garbage Bags
• Bath Towels
• Kitchen Towels
• Grocery Gift Cards (Kroger especially appreciated/preferred)
• Pharmacy Gift Cards (Kroger especially appreciated/preferred)
• CAT Bus Tickets (available at C’ville City Hall)
• Old and/or Broken Cell Phones