REQUEST FOR LETTERS OF INTEREST for SOVA Partnership
Issued: September 26, 2025
Responses Due: October 8, 2025, by 5:00 pm
The GO Virginia Region 3 Council invites Letters of Interest from GO Virginia eligible organizations to serve as the Lead Organization for the Southern Virginia Partnership for Health Science Careers (SOVA Partnership). In this role, the selected organization will prepare and submit a GO Virginia Region 3 Per Capita Implementation Grant to operationalize the SOVA Partnership.
The selected organization will:
- Be physically located within GO Virginia Region 3 and able to operate independently across the region’s footprint.
- Demonstrate experience in building and managing healthcare workforce development coalitions involving a wide range of stakeholders, including:
- Major healthcare systems and providers
- Healthcare practitioners
- Non-profit and government healthcare organizations
- Higher education and K–12 institutions
- Regional foundations
- Local and regional governments
- Other allied stakeholders
- Have experience successfully developing and managing matching grant-funded programs, including GO Virginia preferred.
The GO Virginia Region 3 Council has identified healthcare workforce development as a top priority. The selection of a Support Organization represents the next step in advancing this priority.
Letters of Interest should:
- Briefly state the basis for interest in serving as the Support Organization for the SOVA Partnership.
- Be limited to one (1) page.
- Be submitted as a PDF attachment via email to [email protected] with the subject line: GO Virginia Region 3_SOVA Partnership.
The Region 3 Council anticipates selecting a finalist at its meeting on October 15, 2025; however, it reserves the right to extend the recruitment process if necessary.
For more information, review our Request for Letters of Intent.