Joint Venture Silicon Valley

Our Institute's quarterly commercial space report shows a significant decline in commercial leasing activity and a rise in office space vacancies near transit stations. Despite these and other pandemic-related effects on the market, the region is still churning out new commercial developments and an unprecedented amount remains under construction. Read the report:

Have you heard about HayWired? (Pt. 2) HayWired is a realistic earthquake scenario developed to illustrate how a 7.0-magnitude earthquake on the Hayward Fault could impact the Bay Area in the Internet age. Our next webinar, on 11/2, is your call to action! Learn more at https://jointventure.org/events/haywired-connection

Lauren Weston, Executive Director of Acterra: Action for a Healthy Planet, invites the public to attend this virtual conversation! Learn about Acterra’s programs, future direction, and the work being conducted by neighboring organizations, partners and leaders. Guest Speaker: Ellie Cohen, CEO of The Climate Center, is a leader in catalyzing cross-boundary, collaborative, and just responses to the climate crisis. She oversees the statewide Climate-Safe California campaign to achieve net-negative emissions with the start of drawdown by 2030, as required by science and climate reality, catalyzing the nation and the world into accelerated climate action. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-coffee-hour-with-acter

Asking the right questions is an essential part of SVCF's process in keeping an equity lens at the center of our work. We focus on racially just outcomes, proce...sses, addressing systemic change, & evaluation to ensure inclusivity. Read more reflections from the #SiliconValley Recovery Roundtable in the final installment in a three-part mini-series with SVCF's Executive VP of Community Action, Policy & Strategy-> https://www.siliconvalleycf.org//racial-justice-requires-e #SiliconValleyStrong #Community #Philanthropy City of San José County of San Mateo - Government County of Santa Clara, California Sam Liccardo Cisco Joint Venture Silicon Valley PayPal Facebook Northern California Carpenters Regional Council Silicon Valley Leadership Group SVCreates SPUR AMD VTA Stanford University JobTrain

Op-ed: It’s time for cities to track and measure gasoline consumption. Russell Hancock, CEO of Joint Venture urges cities to track and measure gasoline consumption. "These approaches may sound tough, but we are in a climate crisis that is already causing widespread death, disease and disaster, and gasoline is the biggest cause of it," says Hancock.

Data Release: Silicon Valley unemployment has declined by 0.4 percentage points. As of mid-September, approximately 103,400 people in Silicon Valley’s labor force remained unemployed. Joint Venture’s Institute for Regional Studies today released analysis of Silicon Valley’s unemployment rate through September along with the historical trend back to the year 2000. Rachel Massaro Read the release: https://jointventure.org//2098-data-release-silicon-valley

Webinar: Celebrate #Shakeout by joining the experts who wrote the new #HayWired chapter for a live meeting on Oct. 22 at 10:30am Pacific. Registration information: https://jointventure.org/events/haywired-connection

Joint Venture’s Institute for Regional Studies has released a research brief illustrating how the region’s residents have fared during the pandemic, outlining the impact of the decline in employment on regional food needs, and the rapid response of emergency food distribution efforts. The brief was created in partnership with Second Harvest of Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley Food Recovery, an initiative of Joint Venture. Read the brief: https://jointventure.org//food-insecurity-report-2020-10.p

The college of @SJSUEngineering is excited to welcome Russell Hancock, President and CEO of JointVenture to the #siliconvalleyleaders Symposium this Thursday! Registration is FREE to attend: https://vimeo.com/466278892/7789d082d5

Heard about HayWired? An earthquake scenario to illustrate how a 7.0 quake on the Hayward Fault could impact the Bay Area in the Internet age. Learn more at upcoming webinars starting 10/22! https://jointventure.org//haywired_102220_economics_webina

The Mercury News has published an opinion piece by Janelle London, executive director of Joint Venture's "Beyond Gasoline" initiative. Following immediately on the heels of Governor Newsom's mandate for exclusively zero-emission car sales by 2035, Janelle charts a path for Silicon Valley to take the lead. She urges EV car share and lending programs, incentives, and accessible low-cost charging, all of which Joint Venture is actively pursuing. Coltura https://www.mercurynews.com//commentary-how-newsoms-gas-c/

Dr. Mo Shakouri, director of community broadband for Joint Venture's civic technologies initiative will present at the IEEE 6G Summit on October 27. Dr. Shakouri will review the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Global Cities Initiative study that is focused on Agriculture and Rural Development. The presentation will identify efforts aimed at ensuring viable rural communities for farmers and other residents by improving educational resources (including closing the homework gap), healthcare, aging in place, and economic development. Dr. Shakouri will emphasize best practices for precision agriculture and livestock management, including better broadband-enabled access to markets. IEEE National Institute of Standards and Technology Learn more and register: http://6gsummit.org/

Joint Venture's Institute for Regional Studies has released analysis that reveals that the market cap of Silicon Valley and San Francisco stocks, in aggregate, are now 11% and 7% higher, respectively, than prior to the pandemic-related decline. The Institute has examined how Silicon Valley and San Francisco’s publicly-traded companies have fared in the six months following the market’s lowest point on March 23. The analysis was conducted as an indicator of regional economic health, as opposed to market analyses focusing on the health of individual companies or interests of the stakeholder perspective. Read the release: https://jointventure.org//2082-data-release-silicon-valley

Go Electric! Webinar Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 7:00-8:30PM PT Governor Newsom’s executive order ending the sale of new gasoline-powered cars in California by 2035 will have far-reaching impacts. So what will the future of zero-emission vehicles look like, and how will it impact what you drive?... Join Janelle London, co-executive director of Coltura and executive director of the Beyond Gasoline initiative of Joint Venture Silicon Valley, Tuesday, October 6 for the Go Electric! Webinar hosted by GreenTown Los Altos. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/go-electric-webinar-tickets-11 #cars #webinar #energy #renewableenergy #sustainability #electriccars #GovGavinNewsom #Zeroemissionvehicles