THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 21, 1994 TAG: 9406210367
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B8 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY MIKE KNEPLER, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: 940621 LENGTH: NORFOLK
A computerized job bank will be set up, probably this fall, thanks to a private donation of $100,000 from the local Dalis Foundation.
{REST} Joan Dalis Martone, foundation president, said she became interested in the project after running into Mayor Mason C. Andrews one day this spring.
``I asked him what kind of projects he was working on,'' Martone said. ``He said that he'd like to talk about them and asked that I make an appointment.''
The computer will list job openings and expectations of employee work habits, as described by local businesses participating in the program.
The businesses will commit to interviewing the inner-city job applicants.
Norfolk residents seeking work will have access to the computers in inner-city neighborhoods. The equipment will be phased in, beginning with Park Place and Diggs Town.
Those not hired will have opportunities for job-training and other preparation programs, as coordinated by Tidewater Community College.
Martone was enthusiastic. ``It wasn't so much the computers that interested me as it was what they were going to use the computers for,'' she said. ``The jobs are there. They just have to connect people up with them.''
This is not the first time the Dalis Foundation has assisted Norfolk.
This spring, the foundation gave $98,000 to help renovate the Colonial Boys & Girls Club in Park Place. In 1990, Dalis donated $100,000 to restore the historic Skipjack Norfolk.
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