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New Report to Governor’s Paid Family Leave Task Force Highlights Key Effects of Program to Date image

New Report to Governor’s Paid Family Leave Task Force Highlights Key Effects of Program to Date

California’s landmark Paid Family Leave (PFL) program has enabled more mothers to enter the workforce while helping bring down labor costs for ma...
Bay Area Traffic is Up to 52% of Normal, According to Our New Tracker image

Bay Area Traffic is Up to 52% of Normal, According to Our New Tracker

Once the source of epic traffic jams, new data-visualization shows travel between Silicon Valley and San Francisco is lagging in recovery compared ...
ICYMI: Getting California Back to Work image

ICYMI: Getting California Back to Work

As part of its continuing series of webinars examining different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bay Area Council this week focused on what s...
COVID-19: The Outlook for Hospitals image

COVID-19: The Outlook for Hospitals

Hospitals have been on the front lines of California’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but disruption to their normal operations and the mount...
Big Win for Major Cupertino Housing Project image

Big Win for Major Cupertino Housing Project

A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge last week delivered a major victory for Bay Area Council member Sand Hill Properties and housing advocate...
Bay Area Council Survey Finds Growing Pressure to Reopen Economy image

Bay Area Council Survey Finds Growing Pressure to Reopen Economy

Strong support for shelter-in-place restrictions, but economic toll mounting as growing number of business see more layoffs coming Pressure is buil...
Council Mourns Passing of Linda Bidrossian image

Council Mourns Passing of Linda Bidrossian

On Saturday, April 18, the Bay Area Council received the crushing blow when our beloved Linda Bidrossian – the Senior Vice President of Publi...
Council Helps Secure Large Shipment of Masks for Port of Oakland image

Council Helps Secure Large Shipment of Masks for Port of Oakland

A large shipment of surgical masks the Bay Area Council sourced from a manufacturer in China and helped clear customs and other bureaucratic hurdle...
Council Engaging National Effort to Save Thousands of Nonprofits Excluded from CARES Act image

Council Engaging National Effort to Save Thousands of Nonprofits Excluded from CARES Act

Thousands of civic and community benefit organizations across the country employing almost 1.4 million people were wrongly excluded from the first ...
Council Delivers Thousands of Masks to Needy Organizations image

Council Delivers Thousands of Masks to Needy Organizations

With surgical masks in desperately short supply, the Bay Area Council this week delivered thousands of masks to the agency that manages San Francis...
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