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New Franklin Templeton-Gallup Survey Gives Key Insights for Restaurant Industry on Road to Recovery image

New Franklin Templeton-Gallup Survey Gives Key Insights for Restaurant Industry on Road to Recovery

A new survey released this week by member company Franklin Templeton in partnership with Gallup reveals important insights for restaurant...
Bay Area Council Responds to Near Suspension of Lyft, Uber in California image

Bay Area Council Responds to Near Suspension of Lyft, Uber in California

San Francisco — The Bay Area Council issued the statement below today (Aug. 20) following the potential suspension of Lyft and Uber’s operation...
Silicon Valley Leadership Group Welcomes New CEO image

Silicon Valley Leadership Group Welcomes New CEO

The Bay Area Council extends its hearty congratulations to new Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Ahmad Thomas, and extends our deepest thanks to ...
ICYMI: What to Expect in the Next Round of Federal COVID Relief image

ICYMI: What to Expect in the Next Round of Federal COVID Relief

As Congress returned from recess this week, all eyes have been on Washington to see what the next roll out of federal stimulus will look like. In...
ICYMI: How COVID is Impacting Commercial Real Estate image

ICYMI: How COVID is Impacting Commercial Real Estate

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the commercial real estate world upside down as the economic shutdown closes offices and employers look to increas...
A Note from CEO Jim Wunderman on Juneteenth image

A Note from CEO Jim Wunderman on Juneteenth

On this day 155 years ago, news of emancipation and the Civil War’s end finally reached the last group of enslaved African Americans in Texas. Th...
Member Spotlight: Bristol Meyers Squibb image

Member Spotlight: Bristol Meyers Squibb

Access to food during the COVID-19 pandemic is a concern, especially for immunocompromised patients unable to leave their homes for risk of exposur...
State Gives Bay Area Much Bigger Mandatory Housing Targets, Spurring Call to Action image

State Gives Bay Area Much Bigger Mandatory Housing Targets, Spurring Call to Action

It was described as a coming housing wakeup call for local officials. The Bay Area Council sponsored SB 828 (Wiener) in 2018, which set out to revi...
Council Advocates for Carpooling Campaign as Region Begins to Reopen image

Council Advocates for Carpooling Campaign as Region Begins to Reopen

Anticipating that single occupancy vehicle use will be on the rise as people begin to return to their workplaces, the Bay Area Council is working t...
ICYMI: Council and Pearson Team Up for Webinar Examining the Power of Hidden Bias image

ICYMI: Council and Pearson Team Up for Webinar Examining the Power of Hidden Bias

Unconscious biases are underlying qualities, attitudes, and stereotypes attributed to certain groups based on prevailing views and norms in society...
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