| Joint Venture tackles digital divide |
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Joint Venture is tackling the digital divide, with the leadership and instrumentality of Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg. According to some estimates more than 50,000 students do not have access to the equipment—computers and wired or wireless networks—necessary for distance learning.
"It really is a utility," said Supervisor Ellenberg, who sits on the Joint Venture board. "If you don't have access to education, or you can't apply for jobs or benefits, then you are essentially cut off." Working with Joint Venture's Community Broadband Initiative, the Supervisor and her board colleagues have secured funding that will match funds from the County Office of Education. The project will explore solutions for specific neighborhoods, beginning with a pilot in San Jose. From there, it will scale to a county-wide network. |
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| Silicon Valley Talent Partnership kicks off SV@Home campaign |
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Joint Venture's Silicon Valley Talent Partnership (SVTP) is providing SV@Home with a team of skilled pro bono volunteers to raise general awareness about the crucial need for affordable housing. The group will implement a creative campaign that will engage developers, generate advocacy, and open doors to new funding opportunities.
The effort will shine a spotlight on how the housing crunch affects people of color disproportionately: while only 3 percent of white Santa Clara county residents live in overcrowded housing, 20 percent of Latino families do.
To learn more, or to contribute talent from your company, contact Ashley Raggio. |
| Institute launches new real-time data tab |
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Joint Venture’s Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies has launched a dynamic new Live Updates section on the Silicon Valley Indicators data hub. The feature provides a collection of up-to-date, near-real-time datasets that will continue to grow in scope with new features added regularly.
The Live Updates section includes Silicon Valley’s only Population Clock, a regional stock tracker, an air quality search, data on home values and regional mobility, and an array of COVID-19 visualizations.
The visualizations include up-to-date COVID-19 case counts, testing and hospitalization rates, and a “curve” comparison of Silicon Valley cases per capita against those in California, the United States, and the world. |
| Explore the new Live Updates tab at siliconvalleyindicators.org and find hundreds of other charts and tables illustrating Silicon Valley’s economic and community health. |
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When Joint Venture board member and Santa Clara County Fourth District Supervisor Susan Ellenberg took office in January 2019, she hoped to focus on children and family issues. There was much work to be done, and county government – the social “safety net” for the region – was the perfect place to accomplish it.
Just over a year later a new priority engulfed her agenda. Helping her district navigate a pandemic was suddenly part of Ellenberg’s job description.
Fortunately, Ellenberg is adept at adjusting to circumstances. “Coming into this fiscal year, I realize that some of the programs I was most excited about may have to wait or be modified in order to fund things necessary to combat the virus and its impacts,” she told her constituents in a July newsletter. “Yet, through it all, there is one constant: my commitment to the well-being of all children and families in this County.” |
| Read Susan's profile. |
| Joint Venture participates in AmazonSmile |
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| Joint Venture is now participating in the Amazon.com AmazonSmile program. Every time you shop at AmazonSmile.com, a portion of your sales (0.5) goes to support our work. AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Joint Venture every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact low prices, vast selection, and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to support Joint Venture’s work in your community. |
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August 26, 2020 - (Silicon Valley Business Journal) - Returning to pre-Covid economy isn't good enough, Silicon Valley recovery panel says: "What the group came to realize is that the system is in equilibrium," said another panel member, Joint Venture Silicon Valley CEO Russell Hancock. "If you want something more than that, then you have to think differently." More
August 26, 2020 - (Mercury News) - Coronavirus economy: Silicon Valley recovery plan sprouts - Joint Venture Silicon Valley president Russell Hancock, whose group played a key role in the meetings and report, said the longer-term goals are crucial to the endeavor’s success. More
August 22, 2020 - (San Jose Spotlight) - Silicon Valley unemployment sees slight decline in July: After unemployment reached a historic peak of 11.6% in April, it declined to 9.3% in July, according to a study released Aug. 21 by Joint Venture Silicon Valley... More
August 21, 2020 - (Forbes) - Location Is Everything In Real Estate, Especially Opportunity Zones: the explosive rate of jobs creation since 2008 has left "a jobs-housing mismatch of nearly five to one,"according to Joint Venture Silicon Valley president and CEO Russell Hancock. More
August 19, 2020 - (Silicon Valley Business Journal) - Our COVID-caused stay-home attitude is the strongest in the nation: The study also conforms with the general findings of an April report by Rachel Massaro of the Silicon Valley Institute of Regional Studies... More
August 7, 2020 - (Crosscut Podcast) - What regulation of Big Tech might look like: UW historian [and Joint Venture Distinguished Fellow] Margaret O’Mara draws on America’s history of trustbusting to explore what Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple might be facing. More
July 31, 2020 - (San Jose Spotlight) - Lopez: New initiative promises improved educational outcomes for East San Jose residents - only 18% of Latinos 25 years and older in Silicon Valley hold a bachelor’s degree compared to whites at 62%, according to the2019 Silicon Valley Index of Joint Venture Silicon Valley. More
July 31, 2020 - (The Stanford Daily) - Off site, out of mind? How embracing remote work might change Silicon Valley: A recent report by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies stated that, “[in recent years] traffic has become an increasingly troublesome issue affecting quality of life in Silicon Valley. More |
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