A collaborative vision of a Bay Area centered around the values of equity, high-road employment, sustainability and climate resilience, and shaped by workers and impacted community/members themselves.
The nine-county San Francisco Bay Area is one of the nation’s largest and most diverse metro regions, home to 7.8 million people from the urban core to rural farming communities.
Sixty-one percent of Bay Area residents are people of color and 31% are first-generation immigrants. But despite its prosperity, the Bay Area is one of the ten most unequal regions in the United States.
Together with regional partners, working people and residents we’re developing new approaches to economic development planning in the Bay Area, centered around the values of equity, high-road employment, sustainability and climate resilience, and shaped by workers and impacted community members themselves.
In collaboration with ReWork the Bay and Jobs with Justice SF, we developed a broad framework aimed at shifting the way that regional stakeholders approach the “future of work”.
The final report, Power is at the Root, lifts up five recommendations:
- Center Workers as Decision-Makers
- Forge a Racially Just Future
- Build Collective Power
- Focus on the Changes Most Affecting People’s Lives
- Shape Technology to Serve People
Now, we are embarking on an ambitious collaborative project to build a Bay Area regional table to re-envision regional economic development planning, centered around the values of equity, high-road employment, sustainability and climate resilience, and shaped by workers and impacted community/members themselves. This work is seeded by California’s new Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) initiative. Learn more here.
