March 27, 2020 - In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Mercury News today published an op-ed urging President Trump to make wider use of war powers via the Defense Production Act and to harness industry to ramp up production of personal protective equipment. The piece was written by Joint Venture CEO Russell Hancock and David Entwistle, CEO of Stanford Health Care and a member of the Joint Venture board of directors. Hancock and Entwistle addressed the fact that health care workers throughout the country are functioning with sub-standard personal protective equipment. Despite noble grassroots efforts, "...the unfolding tragedy demands action on a massive — and therefore federal — scale" stated the authors.
March 17, 2020 - Joint Venture CEO Russell Hancock announced that the organization has been repurposed in service to the COVID-19 health crisis facing our region. “Now more than ever the region needs to leverage Joint Venture’s data, analysis, convening power, and leadership,” Hancock said.
March 28, 2020 - Individuals and corporations may support the 
March 16, 2020 - With sweeping COVID-19 safety measures taking effect, Joint Venture's food recovery initiative is expanding its efforts by forming a Silicon Valley Food Recovery Council. With nearly one-in-four residents facing food insecurity, and with 'shelter in place' complicating school meal service, the need for surplus food recovery is pressing. "Joint Venture and its partners will redouble our efforts within the guidelines set by county and state officials," said Robin Franz Martin, Executive Director of the Joint Venture Food Recovery Initiative. Just as food from tech firms and universities are vanishing, the coalition will seek new sources and work with recovery organizations to develop new safety protocols.
March 27, 2020 - Joint Venture’s food recovery initiative has been recognized by the environmental organization Acterra for environmental innovation along with Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen. The A La Carte program collects and redistributes food from large institutions, including Stanford and Facebook, for distribution low-income communities via food truck, alleviating both food waste and hunger. The innovative food truck model is the first of its kind.
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Briefing on the 2020 Silicon Valley Index
Silicon Valley leaders gathered on February 14, 2020 for the 16th-annual State of the Valley conference. Russell Hancock, Joint Venture’s President and CEO, provided a comprehensive briefing of the data contained in the 2020 edition of the Silicon Valley Index, produced by Joint Venture’s Institute for Regional Studies. Hancock emphasizes that, “…the most prodigious regional economy in the history of regional economies,” is tempered by income inequality, homelessness, and impossible transportation woes.
Learn more about the Silicon Valley Index online at www.siliconvalleyindicators.org.
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Silicon Valley Index - 2020
Silicon Valley continues its upward spiral with employment growth, eye-popping land transactions, and venture capital flowing into record numbers of megadeals. Yet conditions are harsh for the broad peripheries of the population as inequality reaches new dimensions.
Learn more about the Silicon Valley Index online at www.siliconvalleyindicators.org.
Bridging The Gap (Second Edition) - December 2019
Written primarily for municipal employees, elected local government officials, and civic leaders to help guide their understanding of new and future wireless technologies, this second edition of Bridging The Gap (first published in 2016) updates previous material on the socio-economic value of wireless technologies and the interplay of local vs. federal public policy regarding permitting and costs, and adds sixteen pages of new material on topics including; 5G cellular, CBRS, and reviews of peer-reviewed scientific and academic studies on electromagnetic field (EMF) safety.
Silicon Valley Commercial Space - Q3 2019
The Institute’s latest quarterly commercial real estate report, prepared in partnership with JLL Silicon Valley, showed Silicon Valley is continuing to develop more new commercial space, and there has been a resurgence of R&D development within the region.
Silicon Valley Bike Vision - February 2017
Joint Venture and the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition have published a regional study that lays out a vision for the bicycle to become a major mode of travel in Silicon Valley.
The report, "Silicon Valley Bike Vision," was produced in partnership with Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, Inc. and made possible with funding from Google, Facebook and Stanford University.
