What we’re about
Mission: CSP's mission is to attract and unite a group of active and civic-minded professionals who have a clear vision of Charlottesville's future as a great place to live, work, and play. CSP is a dues driven organization focusing on socializing with the group and continually being involved in the community.
Overview:
Charlottesville Social Professionals (formally CYP) was founded in 1998 by a few area professionals, with the support of some large corporations and local businesses, determined to attract and retain like-minded individuals around the area. Our members love to get together to enhance our lives and community through camaraderie, patronage, learning, and charitable efforts. Most of all, we have fun! Our members represent a vast array of the area's workforce, including the arts, administration, architecture, education, engineering, finance, food service, government, law, marketing, manufacturing, medicine, media, technology, the trades and other non-profits. CSP's frequent events include, but aren't limited to, membership parties, charity days, group brunch, lunch, and dinners, happy hours, a kickball team, pub crawls, fundraisers, game nights, and attending events in our community just to name a few! Every year members volunteer for the CSP Board of Directors which leads our organization.
Dues:
Events and other membership benefits are made possible through membership dues, sponsorships by local businesses, and other fundraising efforts. We encourage you to sign up and attend one or two events to see if our group is a good fit for you. If so, we ask for annual membership dues of $20 to gain access to more events as well as other membership benefits. Our fiscal year runs from September 1st through August 31st each year. Membership dues are prorated from May 1st - August 31st. These dues can be paid by cash, check, PayPal (online payment includes a service charge).
To pay the annual dues amount ($20 + $1.23) via PayPal use the following link - https://tinyurl.com/4w64svuu
Additional Info:
CSP is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization. The Charlottesville Social Professionals (CSP) originally was founded as the Charlottesville Young Professionals (CYP) in 1999. To communicate greater inclusiveness and diversity of membership, CYP officially became CSP in 2015. It's membership is open to adults of any age, race, ethnicity, gender, religious background, sexual orientation, and ability.
Contact us for more information about CSP, our events, or to join:
Website: http://cvillesocialprofessionals.org
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/cspinc
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cspcville
Email: cspsurvey@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSPCville
Upcoming events (3)
See all- Open Board Meeting!Chang Thai Cville, Charlottesville, VA
Join us for our open board meeting! Let us know what *you'd* like to see us doing for the next few weeks! The meeting itself will start at 7:30, after everyone has had a chance to order something delicious.
Chang Menu: https://www.changthaicville.com/menu
Note to unpaid Meetup members: Charlottesville Social Professionals is a membership-driven, community-oriented organization. Our annual dues of only $20 help keep us hosting occasions like this one. If you'd like to join us for this and future events, the link to become a member is here: ($20 + $1.23 service fee) https://tinyurl.com/2f7hm7ps We appreciate your interest and look forward to seeing you! Find out more about us and your membership benefits at https://www.meetup.com/cspinc/about/, and see our social calendar for the coming month at https://www.meetup.com/cspinc/events/calendar.
- CSP End-Of-Summer Membership Party at Pen Park!Pen Park, Charlottesville, VA
Join CSP in celebration of Summer for our annual Membership and End-Of-Summer Party at Pen Park at our own private picnic shelter! Food and drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be provided. People are welcome to bring a snack or dessert to share. If you do bring a snack or dessert, please post in the comments what you are bringing so we can plan the menu accordingly. CSP will provide the main dish as well as other side dishes. This is the first event of the new CSP fiscal year so dues are $20 and cover your membership until September 2026. Renewing members and new members are welcome to pay your dues at this event. If you want to come but not sure if you want to become a member yet, bring $10 to help cover the cost of food and beverages. If you become a CSP member/renew your membership within a week of the party, that $10 goes towards the $20 membership fee! Bring a friend with you and get entered in a drawing to win a prize! Please bring any field games you'd like to play! Pen Park has a kickball field, pickleball courts, a volleyball court, and we'll have space for Giant Jenga, cornhole, horseshoes, giant Yahtzee or any other fun yard games CSPers would like to bring! Hope to see you there!
If you would like to pay your dues ahead of time, please use the following link: ($20 + $1.23 service fee) https://tinyurl.com/2f7hm7ps
We appreciate your interest and look forward to seeing you! Find out more about us and your membership benefits at: https://www.meetup.com/cspinc/
and see our social calendar for the coming month at:
https://www.meetup.com/cspinc/events/calendar
