July 10, 2020 - David Witkowski, Executive Director of Joint Venture’s Civic Technologies Initiative, posits that while virtual learning helps reduce the risk of person-to-person transmission, schools face a new problem – how to ensure every student has internet access to continue their education remotely.
June 26, 2020 - Joint Venture’s Institute for Regional Studies has completed a quantitative assessment of Palo Alto’s businesses and economic activity. Commissioned by Stanford University prior to the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the special report provides detailed information about the city’s existing business mix, an assessment of the existing impact of the city’s businesses to overall economic activity, and contributions to tax revenues.
July 10, 2020 - Joint Venture’s Food Recovery initiative delivers food directly to those in need. A challenge even in the best of times, the process has been complicated by the pandemic. Yet the community has rallied through the 
July 10, 2020 - Joint Venture’s Silicon Valley Talent Partnership (SVTP) pivoted as the pandemic set in. With several projects frozen in the pipeline, the SVTP team began to pair skilled volunteers to community-based non-profits working on COVID-19. Joining forces with 
July 10, 2020 - Karen Trapenberg Frick, an expert on transportation planning, has been named a distinguished fellow at Joint Venture’s Institute for Regional Studies. Professor Frick is the director of the University of California Transportation Center and a professor of city and regional planning at the Berkeley campus. Prior to joining the faculty she was a planner at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Joint Venture Pivots in Response to COVID-19
On March 17, 2020 Russell Hancock, Joint Venture CEO, announced that for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis the organization would re-orient its efforts to match under-employed service workers to industries deemed "essential," secure and distribute food, provide crisis-related data and analysis, serve as a clearing house for information, provide broadband infrastructure, deploy computer hardware for school-age distance learners and more.
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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 COVID-19 Impacts: Transportation, Emissions & Air Quality
The Institute has released a report that examines the reduction in Silicon Valley’s regional ground and air transportation, declines in traffic delays, as well as the impact of those reductions on transportation-related injury crashes, regional air quality, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Silicon Valley Commercial Space - Q1 2020
The Institute’s latest quarterly commercial real estate report prepared in partnership with JLL Silicon Valley—the first since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic—showed a significant amount of new space is under construction, despite some pandemic-related delays.
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.
