2010-2012 Return on Investment
Issue Areas and Objectives
Education
1.
K-8 Math initiative / Laboratory for Learning - Baird and
Housing & Land Use
1.
Passage of SB 500 / permanent source – Doyle and
__(IBM)
2.
State K-12 Ed. Governance Reform – deGeus and
Axelson (Palm)
2.
Brennock (Synopsys)
3.
Higher education task force – Bruno and Dietz (Lockheed
Low income housing tax credit fund – Wilcox and Carr
(SVB)
3.
Housing Trust Fund - __ and __
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Green building: local policy adoption – Ball and
Martin Space Systems)
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Pre-K state & local policy engagement – McNeely and
Beauchman, (AT&T) Barnholt and Salsbury (KLATencor)
IISME summer teacher fellowship - Martucci and
Brennock (Synopsys)
BACC / Green Workforce preparation – Crowley
(SolFocus)
Williams (Webcor), Surace (Serious Materials)
Health
1.
National comprehensive health care reform – Dawes and
Sager (LPCH)
2.
Camino Hospital)
3.
Environment
1.
BACC: Unite Bay Area on climate action – Bottorff and
Gambelin (PG&E)
2.
National climate legislation advocacy – Cinnamon and
Lipanovich (Akeena Solar)
3.
AB32: cap-and-trade design & advocacy – Wilcox and
Walsh (SVB)
4.
5.
State water bond campaign – Ball and Brown (Webcor)
Green chemistry regulation – Ryder and
Comstock (Johnson & Johnson)
Energy
1.
Incentives for energy efficiency – Bottorff and Hall (PG&E)
2.
Solutions for data center efficiency – Klayko and Noh
(Brocade)
3.
Clean tech policy and trends – Dent and Maloney (SVB)
Federal Issues
1.
Expand D.C. Advocacy Trip (May 4-6) – Werner and
Parker (SunPower)
2.
3.
Immigration Reform – Bu-Tan and Disenhof (Cadence)
Cybersecurity - DeWalt and Gann (McAfee)
Government Relations
1.
Annual Sacramento trip – Werner and Parker (SunPower)
2.
Open Primary / State Ballot Measures – Hagerty and
Engaging elected officials (e.g., Road to the State
House) – Lewin and Hines (Microsoft)
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Voter registration: Employee outreach – Blumenthal and
Blitzer (UC Santa Cruz)
Employer wellness programs / Fit for Work – Chris
Boyd and Lisa Jafferies (Kaiser Permanente)
Membership
1.
Secure at least 60 new members in 2010 - Lipsin &
O’Neill (CA)
2.
Retain 95% of current members – Lipsin & O’Neill (CA)
R.E.A.L. Coalition
1.
Outreach to gubernatorial candidates on R.E.A.L.
priorities - Archambeau and Phalke (MetricStream)
Tax Policy
1.
Protect deferral / fed. Tax reform – Klayko and Noh
(Brocade)
2.
Protect elective single sales factor apportionment –
3.
California and federal R&D Tax Credit –
Berglund and Ciganer (Trimble)
Kostenbauder/Rodriguez (HP) and Palmintiere/Rossi
(Intel)
Transportation
1.
BART – Secure Fed/State funding – Bruno and Paedon
(Lockheed Martin)
2.
3.
High Speed Rail – Ball and Doran (Webcor)
Plug-in Electric Vehicles – Wolff and Thesen (Better
Place)
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Japic (Polycom)
3.
State health care legislation Graham and Arline ( El
Regional Trans. Planning Coordination Page and
Shepherd (Cargill)
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Bike Projects/Programs –Sinyard and Diaz (Specialized)
SB 375 Implementation – Clark and McCoy (Genentech)
Bus Rapid Transit corridors – Clark and McCoy
(Genentech)
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Intelligent Transportation systems – Fennell and Poppin
(deCarta)
Community
 Silicon Valley Turkey Trot – Mike Splinter, Mac Tully
 Santa Clara NFL Stadium Effort: Measure J - June 8th – Jed York
 A’s to San Jose Stadium Effort – Lew Wolff
Middle School Math Initiative Sponsors
Affymetrix
Agilent
Alta Devices
AMD
BD Biosciences
Bridgelux
Brocade
Cargill
Comcast
deCarta
DeVry University (in-kind)
ETM Electromatic, Inc.
HP IBM
Intel
Lockheed
Mosys
Net Gear
NXP
PG&E
Polycom
Rovi
SAP (grant pending)
Sunpower
SVB Financial
Symantec (grant pending)
Synopsys
Tech CU
Tessera
Wells Fargo
Wyse