About Hampton Roads Partnership

The Hampton Roads Partnership is a public-private organization that was formed on May 15, 1996. The Partnership represents ten cities, six counties, and one town, equaling nearly 1.6 million citizens of Virginia.

Comprised of the chief elected official of all seventeen communities, private sector, education, military, and labor representation from both south Hampton Roads and the Virginia Peninsula, the Hampton Roads Partnership is the only organization in Hampton Roads that focuses on the region's strategic issues for the purpose of enhancing our competitiveness in the global economy with resulting income and job growth for our citizens.

The Partnership is governed by two Co-Chairmen, a Board of Directors, which meets quarterly, and an Executive Committee which meets monthly. The Partnership has a permanent staff of six.

Roughly seventy-nine percent of the Partnership's operating funds come from annual investments made by member businesses and educational institutions and the remaining twenty-one percent comes from investments made by the localities comprising the Hampton Roads region.

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