June 14, 2019 – The Joint Venture board of directors elected two new members at their quarterly meeting: Supervisor Susan Ellenberg, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, District 4 and Michael Isip, President and Chief Executive Officer of KQED Public Media. “We are delighted to add the expertise of Supervisor Susan Ellenberg and Michael Isip to the Joint Venture board,” said Russell Hancock, President & CEO of Joint Venture.
June 10, 2019 - Joint Venture's Silicon Valley Talent Partnership has paired a pro bono team of experts from Adobe to assist nonprofit Project HIRED to help people with disabilities find employment. Have a project that could use expert help?
June 10, 2019 - Joint Venture is thrilled to welcome eight college business and accounting interns as part of the “EY Launch on Loan” program July 8 - 11. Thanks to the generosity of EY, Joint Venture will have raw talent at work while helping those interns to develop their professional skills.
June 10, 2019 - A group of 20 elected officials and transportation planners from Bay Area tech companies took a field trip to Walnut Creek to see transportation management schemes employed at Contra Costa Centre, a dense center of jobs and retail. Joint Venture CEO Russell Hancock led the outing. The trip was part of the “Manzanita Talks,” exploring the feasibility of a sub-regional transportation management association on the Peninsula.
June 10, 2019 - Joint Venture’s A La Carte food rescue initiative has received a $350,000 grant from CalRecycle’s Food Waste Prevention Program.
June 10, 2019 - Joint Venture’s David Witkowski provided expert testimony May 20 in Sacramento in front of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Communications division. He outlined a vision for California’s communications grid. “The communications grid is a critical part of infrastructure,” said Witkowski, “but the state still relies on a patchwork of archaic rules that hinder access to safe, reliable, and affordable services.”
June 10, 2019 - Every leader aspires to leave a legacy of success. John Boland, a member of the board of directors at Joint Venture Silicon Valley, has done just that at KQED. At a time when most regional news entities are struggling, Boland catapulted KQED from a traditional public broadcast outlet into a multimedia stronghold. The eldest of 12 and a college dropout, Boland served as President and CEO of KQED through March 2019, and is now president emeritus. 
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2019 State of the Valley
Joint Venture’s annual State of the Valley conference took place in San Jose February 15, 2019. This is a video recap of the event.
2019 State of the Valley recap video by PRx Digital.
Briefing on the 2019 Silicon Valley Index
Joint Venture CEO Russell Hancock gave a comprehensive briefing on the 2019 Silicon Valley Index, produced by Joint Venture’s Institute for Regional Studies.
Learn more about the Silicon Valley Index online at www.siliconvalleyindicators.org.
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Silicon Valley Commercial Space - Q1 2019
The Institute’s latest quarterly commercial real estate report, prepared in partnership with JLL Silicon Valley, showed that activity is brisk and demand is high, especially for commercial space located near public transit. Office vacancy rates – which were relatively high between Q4 2017 and Q4 2018 due – fell significantly in Q1 2019 to 13.4%.
Silicon Valley Index - 2019
Silicon Valley’s economy has reached new levels of employment, income, innovation, and investments as major companies are fundamentally altering the character and evolution of innovation in the region.
Learn more about the Silicon Valley Index online at www.siliconvalleyindicators.org.
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.
