Support group for job-seekers needs home
The city of Greensboro would generate more tax revenue if it could be more proactive in helping the city’s chapter of Professionals in Transition (PIT) find a new weekly meeting place. These out-of-work citizens — well-educated professionals — could then support the community better once they re-entered the workplace.
PIT is a volunteer-run, nonprofit, no-budget support group for job-seeking professionals. Our members, with families, include accountants and seasoned manufacturing executives. These people normally pay taxes.
PIT’s current location is the Cultural Arts Center downtown. We appreciate their hospitality, but the growing ranks of the professionally unemployed have made the limited seating and configuration difficult to hold productive meetings.
Our weekly evening meetings let us network, encourage one another and share job leads. A new room for 50 members would do wonders. But city-owned public libraries stipulate that a group like ours cannot meet more than three times in succession.
Private facilities demand a fee that we can’t afford. PIT needs to offer a long-term, easy-access location for this growing membership. Can anyone help?
Karl F. Kunkel
High Point
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Let me get this right--you don't let in any riffraff? Because if you're lying about how upscale you are, nobody's going to give you a place to meet.
Posted on March 31, 2009 4:24 AM
The '62 Oakwood sitting down on 1B is available.
Floor needs a little shoring up and the window ac unit trips the breaker a couple of times a week, but it's priced right.
Posted on March 31, 2009 6:46 AM
Have you considered asking a church for the use of a room once a week?
I'm not surprised that a group of "professionals" (including "EXECUTIVES") haven't thought of (or didn't want to consider) asking a church for the use of a room once a week.
Any true-to-her-calling Executive Secretary could have come up with numerous suggestions for locales. REAL Secretaries know how to move bosses "off site" and out of their hair so they can get the work done.
Sounds like your group has too many chiefs and not enough injuns (no offense to the Lumbees and Cherokees and any others who might be wont to take offense).
Posted on March 31, 2009 10:54 AM
Nwtaf,
When I was looking for a larger venue (than my church) to hold a gospel concert, I called many churches in Greensboro. Not one would say yes, even when I offered to pay a nominal fee. Too many didn't have the common courtesy to return my call or email.
Since "professionals" are looking for a meeting place, they may fare better. I wish them luck.
Posted on March 31, 2009 2:16 PM
Karl,
First Friends Meeting, 2100 West Friendly Ave in Greensboro has been looking for ways that we might be of service to those who are suffering the impacts of our current economic times. We would like to speak with Professionals in Transition about using our Fellowship Hall for your meetings. I am familar with PIT and I believe our members would be supportive.
Bob p
Posted on April 1, 2009 10:58 AM