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 Don't miss out! Book the 2008 Legacy of Leadership Awards
Thanks for your tremendous support of our first annual event, the 2007 Valley Vision Legacy of Leadership Awards and Legacy Feast!
Last year’s event SOLD OUT well in advance, so we’d strongly encourage you to act soon to reserve a spot for our second event on May 22, 2008. We've begun taking reservations for our limited sponsorship opportunities and hope you'll consider renewing at this year's level or upgrading. We anticipate tickets and sponsorship opportunities will be gone by the end of this year!
Also, please watch your mail for the announcement of our 2008 awards nominations process – and be thinking of deserving candidates. Each award winner will be allowed to direct $5,000 to the community organization of their choice, funded by a special endowment left by the late Gordon Schaeber, a Valley Vision co-founder and dean of the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law. View last year's winners
We've received insightful feedback about the 2007 event. Our guests loved the venue – the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts – and the high-quality food and wine, so we'll keep them next year. Based on your feedback, we'll also streamline the program and ensure that food and beverages are more readily available throughout the beginning of the evening.
Contact Debbie Uhrenholt at (916) 325-1630 for questions or arrangements.
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 We’re thrilled to welcome a new member to our Valley Vision team – someone who many of you may already know.
Margaret Teichert has joined us as a Project Manager, bringing with her 11 years of experience in project management, community relations and marketing in a variety of industries plus countless hours of volunteer leadership with a wide range of community boards and organizations.
Margaret has served in volunteer leadership roles for the Sacramento Tree Foundation, Urban Land Institute, League of Women Voters, Sacramento Theater Company Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT), Sacramento Theater Company, Boys and Girls Clubs, American Heart Association and was 2004 campaign chair of the “Yes on Measure X – Excellent Libraries for Sacramento” campaign.
Whew!
She’s also served in project, community affairs and marketing roles for a diverse range of employers including AKT Development, Kleinfelder Inc, Red Hat Software, Craft.com, Sapient Corp. and MTV/Nickelodeon Networks.
Margaret joins us as we say farewell to Sharon Huntsman, who was recruited to lead the California Edge Campaign, a partnership to realign the state’s workforce preparation system. It’s a great opportunity for a talented facilitator and strategic planner, but she’ll be sorely missed.
Please join us in wishing Sharon the best of luck and in welcoming Margaret to the team!
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 Partnership for Prosperity
This groundbreaking regional business coalition’s work to support our local clean energy technology sector continues in earnest this fall with roles in two major events.
This month the Partnership’s Clean Energy Action Team hosts the Clean Tech Business Roundtable luncheons. This series of intimate discussions is designed to gather insights from local clean-tech CEOs on how the region can better support their firms and industry. Roughly a third of the region’s 70-plus clean tech companies are already signed on.
Oct. 11 brings a chance for those companies to shine – and for interested folks to get up to speed – at the CleanStart/SARTA Clean Tech Showcase. This day-long event will showcase rising companies, the region’s strengths as a clean-energy hotbed and feature workshops on green business practices and actions. Hosts are the CleanStart tech incubator and the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance, two prominent members of the PFP Clean Energy Tech Action Team.
For more information on the team, visit the PFP website or contact Kristine Mazzei.
Meanwhile, PFP's Education Action Team recently completed the first phase of it's $65,000 Regional Workforce Forecast study, selecting 75 key industries in the region that will be important to the six-county region's economy in the future. Now the Team's research partner, Sacramento Regional Research Institute, is identifying the predominant occupations employed within these key industries to define the skills and competencies needed for these occupations over the next 10 years.
When the forecast complete early next year it can help us more tightly match what's being taught in area universities, colleges, and training programs with the job skill needs our region needs in the future.
For more information on the team, visit the PFP website or contact Bill Mueller.
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 Community Needs Assessment
Beta testing under way for new regional health tool
Months of work and coordination are coming to fruition as we circulate the first draft or “beta” version of a new interactive health map that shows disease data and health care facilities by ZIP code.
Mercy, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health and UC Davis health systems are members of the steering committee that’s guiding the Community Needs Assessment project, which is facilitated by Valley Vision. The committee and technology partner STLI are gathering feedback on the beta version of the health map and database in preparation for a fall launch. When complete, it’s expected to expand access to health data and help the four healthcare providers make well-informed decisions about how to guide charitable spending for the region’s underinsured and uninsured.
Contact Bill Mueller for information.
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 Hmong Health Collaborative
Dressed in traditional Hmong attire, about 25 members of the Hmong Health Collaborative met with state legislators in Sacramento to increase awareness about the complexities that Hmong and other Southeast Asians face in the U.S. healthcare system.
Collaborative members also held an informational forum with Sacramento-area healthcare providers, designed to educate about traditional Hmong health care practices and consider how their intersection with Western methods.
Next week Valley Vision will facilitate a two-day strategic planning session with the Collaborative’s ten Hmong-serving member organizations, designed to chart work in the final year of the group’s second phase.
Contact Bill Mueller or Robyn Krock for more information or to get involved.
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 Cleaner Air Partnership
Members of the business-health Cleaner Air Partnership focused on building relationships with neighboring regions – and sharing air quality strategies – at a July quarterly luncheon.
Leaders from the Bay Area and San Joaquin Valley air districts broke bread with more than 30 Sacramento-area business, health, regulatory and community leaders. We learned more about the air quality status in the Bay Area and San Joaquin and how those regions are addressing major challenges such as the requirements of AB 32, the state's new greenhouse gas law.
We also explored ways we can all work together to advise the state and federal governments on sound policy that translates to on-the-ground air quality benefits at the local level. It’s part of our campaign to expand involvement in the Partnership both within and outside the Sacramento region.
Our next quarterly luncheon is Sept. 28, when we'll host state legislators and staff from the state air board for a check-in on AB 32, development of carbon market trading programs, and the legislative year for air quality.
Contact Jon Jeisel for more information or to get involved.
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