Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
Building the next Silicon Valley, together.
It's not easy being Silicon Valley.
Our community has significant challenges to address if we want to preserve our standing as the world's best platform for innovation and entrepreneurship.
In 1992 a group of visionary people decided the best way to solve problems was to create a neutral forum, bringing together leaders from business, labor, government, the universities, and the non-profit sector to think outside the box and build creative solutions.
Now more than ever, Silicon Valley needs this kind of innovative leadership. Joint Venture is still providing it. You and your organization can join with hundreds of leaders working in teams on our current initiatives:
Alliance for Teaching - The Alliance for Teaching focuses on a range of efforts addressing the challenges facing public school teachers throughout Silicon Valley. This initiative seeks to make Silicon Valley a nationally renowned region for teaching excellence and a place where good teachers are valued and rewarded. The Alliance for Teaching works to ensure teacher excellence through professional development programs and building community support for teachers by honoring, celebrating and rewarding them.
Cell Phone Coverage - Joint Venture's Cell Phone Coverage Project is a collaboration between carriers, cities, and residents, working to eliminate dead spots.
Climate Prosperity - The Silicon Valley Climate Prosperity Council brings together leaders and programs from throughout our region and across multiple sectors to address climate change while growing our local economy. The initiative will be guided by our Greenprint, and will provide coordination among new and existing economic development and environmental initiatives.
Climate Protection - Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network is convening a public – private partnership to help local government agencies identify greenhouse gas reducing technologies and provide leadership in their communities.
Disaster Preparedness - In the event of a regional emergency, business as usual won’t be good enough for Silicon Valley. Getting our economy firing again, quickly, will required unprecedented levels of planning and cross-sector collaboration. Joint Venture is working to provide it.
Grand Boulevard - Making El Camino Real a grand boulevard, one that meets our needs and reflects our regions dynamic profile.
New California Network - The New California Network develops nonpartisan and broadly supported reforms that will rebuild the fiscal foundation and improve the performance and accountability of state government for the purpose of making California prosperous, safe and healthy for all of its residents.
Silicon Valley Econonomic Development Alliance - Silicon Valley cities work together to create a healthy economic environment, share best practices with each other and build relationships with Silicon Valley's economic engine. They get the word out there: our region is the world's best place to build a company.
Sustainable Buildings - Building on Joint Venture’s historical work with the business, development, and government communities to achieve uniformity in local building codes, we are engaged in a project to address buildings and the built environment. Joint Venture convenes meetings, brings together stakeholders to address problems, and provides vehicles for cities to access technical solutions, such as joint procurement and/or commonly owned software. We provide tools, training, and resources that industry, the counties and the cities need to successfully move toward sustainable buildings and development practices.
Wireless Silicon Valley - Smart Valley has partnered with city and county IT managers, and economic development staff to form the Wireless Silicon Valley Task Force.
Workforce - Silicon Valley faces well-known challenges in providing skilled workers for the region’s ever-growing list of innovative technology endeavors. Joint Venture has been selected by the North Valley Workforce Board (NOVA), work2future, and the San Mateo County Workforce Investment Board to recommend a coherent regional workforce investment strategy and to identify the initial steps toward its implementation. This effort is financed through a contract with NOVA, which in turn is being funded by a one-time grant from the United States Department of Labor.