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Bridge To Recovery
Santa Clara County
Bridge To Recovery, a coalition of the private, public sector, and not-for-profit leaders working with the community to build a two-prong recovery path: a stronger safety net connected to training opportunities that lead to meaningful jobs for all.
50+
Organizations and Entities
100
Leaders across all sectors
1000+
Being helped through B2R
The Current State
We are experiencing a moment of massive social and economic disruption. Silicon Valley continues to be a place with striking and increasing inequities that disproportionately affect people of color.
“We used to lament that in Silicon Valley the rich kept getting richer while the poor became poorer. [...] Today we must frankly admit that the pandemic has made the rich richer while the poor are dying.”
- Joint Venture CEO Russell Hancock
What We Do
Bridge To Recovery is redesigning and integrating systems to create a sustainable
and equitable safety net benefits and employment system.
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Quick Access
Quicker access to Safety Net programs that are available
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Benefits
Integrated Safety Net benefits ecosystem
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Workforce
Integrated, coordinated, and sustainable workforce development ecosystem
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job creation
High quality job creation and business growth
Resourcing
Entrepreneurship support for undocumented immigrants
Our Vision
Bridge to Recovery places the voice of the people at the center of the conversation. While collaborating with service providers and employers, B2R will redesign the current systems of support to become more effective at addressing inequities in our community. Creating greater access for families on the margins of the economy is at our core. B2R will stabilize these families' lives, help them learn new skills, obtain employment, leading to living wage solutions. Bridge to Recovery aspires to create opportunities for healing while building pathways to a sustainable future for all of Silicon Valley.
The Progress
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Active participation by over 100 individuals representing approximately 50 organizations and entities.
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Building a collaborative leadership model with key leaders across all sectors, philanthropy, and labor.
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Successfully delivered an equitable paid work experience program in partnership with Goodwill Silicon Valley and Project Hired, employing and training over 173 clients.
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Secured investments
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Establishing Joint Venture Silicon Valley as Bridge to Recovery’s backbone organization where we can partner with complementary efforts like Equity Forward and the Silicon Valley Recovery Roundtable.
Join The Movement
Invest, partner, provide leadership to help us shape an equitable Silicon Valley where all thrive.
Stephen Hicken
Economic Development Services
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
Rob George
Bridge To Recovery
Joint Venture Silicon Valley
george@jointventure.org