New Year, New Board

At Santa Cruz Works (“SCWorks”), one of our New Year’s resolutions was to create an energetic new board of directors. The formula we used to select our board included has five (5) values we deemed essential for our community’s vibrant tech ecosystem.

Doug EricksonJanuary 5, 2023Hilary Bryant, Jacob Martinez, Bonnie Lipscomb, Dave Evans, Drew Meyer, Andrea Pesce, Annabelle Rodriguez, Bard Barbeau, James O'Connor, Alexi Sevastopolous, Jon Sisk, Jason Borgen, LeBaron Meyers, Allison Steitz Comment

2022 Predictions

Community leaders gaze into the crystal ball to predict the year ahead. You decide if their predictions for past years have been foretelling and accurate.

Doug EricksonDecember 23, 2021Kate Roberts, 2022, Predictions, Dave Evans, Donna Meyers, Casey Beyer, Hilary Bryant, David Doolin, Philippe Kahn, UCSC, Cynthia Larive, Bonnie Lipscomb, Chris Miller, MBEP, Faris Sabbah

Part 3: Why Santa Cruz? Housing and Homelessness

We are in crisis. The realities in San Francisco and Silicon Valley set a very bleak stage. Where do you call Home?

Guest UserNovember 14, 2019Why Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Housing and Homelessness, Santa Cruz Housing, Santa Cruz Homelessness, Santa Cruz works, Santa Cruz tech, Santa Cruz City Council, State Law AB 1482, AB 1482, Kara Meyberg Guzman, Stephen Baxter, Santa Cruz Local, Economic Development, Bonnie Lipscomb, Sibley Simon

Part 2: Why Santa Cruz? Room to Grow - Office Space and Wages

This week, backed by an amazing amount of in-depth research and impeccably reported by Leonardo Castañeda, The Mercury News dropped the truth bomb that just 10 entities own about 11% of all the taxable property in Silicon Valley—that’s $59.2 billion of property