Silicon Valley Sponsoring Committee

Silicon Valley Sponsoring Committee's primary goal is to move successfully toward founding a newly named organization in Santa Clara County by November 2024. Additionally, SVSC is working on local neighborhood safety issues and working to build the long-term organizational strength to work on systemic issues related to economic equity in Santa Clara County. We have done the following in the 2023:- Organized an assembly with over 175 people from 15 institutions together with San Jose Vice-Mayor Kamei in January to officially launch a strategy toward a Founding Convention as well as gain commitments from the City to fix lighting and trim trees in the low-income East Cadillac neighborhood.- Held multiple recruitment meetings in individual institutions as well as across the county resulting in 3 new institutions contributing toward the sponsoring committee since January.- Trained 125 leaders on organizing in their communities, over half of whom were new.- Leaders and organizers held over 45 individual meetings from Santee and nearby, Cadillac-Winchester, and San Tomas area.- Held small group conversations after misas del barrio (Mass in the neighborhood) every month engaging a total of 200 people.- Held assembly on January 18th at St. Lucy Parish with 175 people and San Jose vice-mayor Kamei who committed to getting trees trimmed.- Recruited and trained 125 leaders to organize a team for the purpose of developing this strategy- Very successful training in coordination with "Recognizing the Stranger" in Oct. 2023