As I was sitting on my Southwest Airlines flight back from San Jose, I looked into the rows ahead of me to see a scene that has become synonymous with our EDC Leadership Trips: Our former chair and the National Head of Commercial and Industrial Banking at Western Alliance Bank Julian Parra leaning into the […]
Authored by Lisette Islas, Executive VP and Chief Impact Officer at MAAC, and EDC Vice Chair of Inclusive Growth “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.” Most every year, EDC hosts a Leadership Trip to a strategic metro. Guided by our Inclusive Growth strategy, the trips help expose dozens of San Diego’s private sector, nonprofit, academic, […]
As a way to inspire new approaches to inclusive economic development, EDC organizes an annual leadership trip with its partners and stakeholders in a peer region facing similar challenges. This year, EDC led a delegation of more than 40 San Diegans to Atlanta, Georgia – a city with deep cultural and historical significance. After three […]
Each year, EDC carefully selects a peer metro for our annual Best Practices Leadership Trip – a chance for EDC and a group of key partners and stakeholders to learn from another region facing challenges similar to our own. The decision to go to Indianapolis this year was not a hard one. We were drawn […]
It has been nine years since EDC hosted its first Inclusive Growth Leadership Trip to Nashville, Tennessee. This May, a cross-sector delegation of business, government, and civic leaders headed to San Jose, a strategic peer metro facing the same challenges and opportunities as the San Diego region. Over two and a half days, our delegation […]
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EDC, Apprenti partner to grow local talent pipeline This is a developing story; last update was made July 2024. With a nationwide talent shortage, companies are challenged to maximize growth. In San Diego, this issue is exacerbated by a declining working-age population coupled with job growth, making it difficult to find qualified talent. To build […]
Smart economic development is inclusive economic development. That’s why for more than six years, EDC’s programs and priorities have been rooted in growing the region’s quality jobs, skilled talent, and thriving households critical to San Diego’s competitiveness. Day-by-day and year-by-year, together with and through 150 investors and partners, EDC chips away and tracks against the […]
From a leadership trip to Seattle to hosting the annual Summer Bash, see below for EDC’s month in review made possible with and through our investors and partners. By the numbers 400 San Diegans attend EDC’s Summer Bash 30 San Diego delegates visit Seattle 75K Monthly job postings in San Diego 84% New jobs created […]
Every week, ‘Good News of the Week’ features a curation of positive headlines from San Diego, delivered straight to your inbox. A blend of aggregated stories from San Diego’s most trusted news sources and original EDC-created content, GNOTW provides a comprehensive recap of the region’s best stories from the past week. Get Good News of […]
