Sponsored by the Randall W. Lewis Family Foundation
The SoCal Transformation Database is a centralized digital repository for the Southern California region to easily access a diverse variety of expert intelligence on areas of pertinence to the long term reinvention of our region post pandemic times. Creative ideas and best practices from both the public and private sectors will be available for free to best prepare our communities to save lives and jobs when the next crisis occurs.
Community groups, businesses, public agencies, schools, economists, and philanthropic organizations may take advantage of the relevant research available on programs, initiatives, articles, white papers, webinars, websites, forums and videos. These resources will make it easier to research, store, display, share and deliver information to civic, academic and economic leaders.
To submit a url or upload a document for submission to the database, contact Christopher at christopher.im@bizfed.org.
Leaders, Do you have a clear vision for the post crisis future?
As the Covid-19 pandemic shakes the global economy and disrupts the way we live, work, and conduct business, leaders are scrambling to manage the immediate fallout. But, as history proves, it’s also necessary to prepare for what’s next.
CalMatters, The Economy – Current Articles on the Economy and Business Recovery
CalMatters is a nonpartisan, nonprofit journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it matters.
Resilience Roadmap, State of California
Californians have been staying home and saving lives since the start of our statewide stay-at-home order issued on March 19, 2020. These efforts have allowed the state to move forward on our roadmap for modifying the statewide order.
Statewide Industry Guidance to Reduce Risk, State of California
On June 18, 2020, CDPH issued Guidance on the Use of Face Coverings, which broadly requires the use of face coverings in California when in public or common spaces. Complete details, including all requirements and exceptions to these rules, can be found in the guidance.
Safer L.A. Toolkits for Business, City of Los Angeles
Throughout the response to the COVID-19 crisis, City, County and State governments have worked together to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of Angelenos and all Californians. Our goal is to help workers and businesses take responsible steps toward resuming work, serving customers and rebuilding our economy.
Coronavirus Updates: Newsom, California health officials share reopening guidelines
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California health officials on Monday released guidelines for places of worship to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic, while “strongly” recommending that churches continue to hold services remotely.
Update on California’s Pandemic Roadmap
Stay Home. Practice Physical Distancing. We are enlisting all Californians to help inform the development of guidance for sectors across our economy. This guidance will provide a framework for how to safely re-open.
COVID-19 reveals vulnerability of small-scale fisheries to global market system
Food systems are fundamental to human health and flourishing and constitute one of the major pathways of human impact on the environment.
DCBA has partnered with the Department of Workforce, Development, Aging, and Community Services, and other County and State agencies to bring you the L.A. County Disaster Help Center.
The center has resources for businesses as well as employees to help during the COVID-19 emergency.
COVID-19 Response Strategies: The Valley Economic Alliance Board of Directors unanimously approved a strategic map to lead an economic recovery in the Valley that is fast, strong, and inclusive.
The Valley Economic Alliance Adopts COVID-19 Recovery Plan
From Stabilization to Stimulus and Beyond: A Roadmap to Social and Economic Recovery
The COVID-19 crisis is unlike any Canada has faced in the last century. It has forced all but the most essential in-person shared services and supports to cease and many workplaces have ceased work altogether.
After more coronavirus closures, how deep will California’s recession go?
Forget the notion of a V-shaped recovery. Unemployment leveled off around 16% in May, but a retreat to isolation and the end of some relief funds could lengthen the state’s economic recovery — and deepen inequality.
Timeline: California reacts to coronavirus
This timeline tracks how California state and local governments tackled the evolving COVID-19 crisis since the first case was detected.
“We Could Be Feeling This for the Next Decade”: Virus Hits College Towns
Opening bars and bringing back football teams have lead to new outbreaks. Communities that evolved around campuses face potentially existential losses in population, jobs and revenue.
County of Los Angeles COVID-19 Economic Resiliency Task Force Infrastructure Development and Construction Sector Recommendation Report
In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, the County must strengthen its commitment to sustainability, equity, and resilience in order to create a pathway for investment in a safe, healthy, and inclusive future.
Proposal for Selective Sector Closing of Bars in Counties on the County Monitoring List
Counties on the County Monitoring List are under active monitoring by the state, and may receive targeted engagement and technical support from CDPH and other agencies and departments including the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, the Department of Industrial Relations and the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Counties that do not demonstrate substantial progress at 14 days are candidates for reinstituting community measures.
After record COVID week, some California counties to reverse reopening plans
As Gov. Gavin Newsom demands Imperial County return to sheltering-in-place, 14 other counties are on the state’s watchlist.
Props to you, Californians: A preview of what’s on your November ballot
After a bit of last-minute legislative maneuvering, the list of propositions that California voters will be asked to weigh in on has been — more or less — finalized.
California lawmakers approve budget that delays pain, hopes for future federal funds
California lawmakers voted Friday to send Gov. Gavin Newsom a $202.1 billion budget that avoids deep cuts, despite a projected $54 billion deficit brought on by the coronavirus, by delaying some payments and using reserves.
Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies
Businesses are laying off workers, shutting their doors (some permanently), and struggling to react to the radical destruction that coronavirus (COVID-19) is doing to our society and communities. Most have already sustained massive damage, and we still have yet to see the scope of this global pandemic.
6 Steps to Creating Business / Nonprofit Partnerships That Last Beyond a Crisis
In 2022, people will still ask you as a business leader, “What did you do during the pandemic to serve your community?” If you don’t have a good answer now, it’s not too late to find your purpose as a business in this pandemic and create business/nonprofit partnerships that will last beyond this pandemic crisis.
Six Community Engagement “Reopening” Tactics For Business Leaders When COVID-19 Restrictions Relax
As authorities consider giving the “all clear” for your business to reopen soon in some modified way, it’s time to plan how you’ll go beyond just opening your doors and re-engaging as a community leader. Invite your key stakeholders—your employees, vendors, customers, and community partners—back to the new normal that reaffirms and amplifies your role as a leader. With these six re-opening tactics for community engagement, you and your organization will come back stronger from the COVID-19 restrictions.
Los Angeles County Economic Resiliency Task Force Comprehensive Report
After more coronavirus closures, how deep will California’s recession go?
Forget the notion of a V-shaped recovery. Unemployment leveled off around 16% in May, but a retreat to isolation and the end of some relief funds could lengthen the state’s economic recovery — and deepen inequality.
California gears up for blockbuster year of ballot measures
Expect fireworks throughout the fall as powerful interest groups compete for airtime and attention during an unprecedented presidential election in a pandemic year.
From internet rights to streeteries, how the pandemic is changing working from home
In an event co-hosted by CalMatters and the Milken Institute, policymakers and advocates explain where they see the state heading — and why California desperately needs to bridge its digital divide.
Newsom economic task force has star-studded cast. Why can’t it solve the reopening?
Almost 100 days ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped Apple’s Tim Cook, Disney’s Bob Iger, former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and scores of other business and labor luminaries to chart the state’s economic recovery.
The public is still waiting for a road map.
Fauci to California: Good work so far, but state needs public buy-in for safe reopening
The nation’s leading public health figure in the coronavirus pandemic gave California a pat on the back for its reopening efforts but cautioned young people to be vigilant.
Major Components of Joint Economic Stimulus Plan
Sub-topics: New Revenues Without Raising Taxes; Support for Small Business; Protections for Working Families; Investments in our Green Economy
Cutting UI benefits by $400 per week will significantly harm U.S. families, jobs, and growth
Currently Senate Republicans are offering a proposal to reduce this weekly $600 supplement to closer to $200. This is better than allowing the $600 benefit to go all the way to zero, but this would still lead to GDP that was lower by 2.5% a year from now, and, would lead to 3.4 million fewer jobs created over the next year.
5 weeks left to find pandemic solutions
State lawmakers have just five weeks to come up with solutions to massive pandemic-related problems and prevent Californians of all stripes — tenants, landlords, small-business owners, essential workers — from falling off the edge of a cliff.
Death surge prompts stricter enforcement
Enforcement of coronavirus orders is ramping up across California as the state broke its single-day record for deaths twice this week amid a series of outbreaks in essential workplaces.
Shutdown of Marathon’s Martinez Refinery Prompts Calls for ‘Just Transition’ for Oil Workers
Elected officials, union leaders, industry representatives and environmentalists are expressing concern about the hundreds of workers set to lose their jobs at California's fourth-largest refinery in the coming months.
County variance info
California is monitoring COVID-19 closely in each local community and keeping the public informed. We’re teaming up with counties to fight it with every tool we have: current local data, testing, contact tracing, infection control, emergency supplies, containment measures, and more.
Faced with dying Californians and withering businesses, Gov. Newsom steers a middle path. Can it last?
As coronavirus infections and deaths rise dramatically, the Democratic governor navigates pressure to both tighten restrictions and ease up on businesses.
From elevator etiquette to break room buddies, your burning questions about a return to work
For workers fortunate enough to have been working remotely during the pandemic amid historic layoffs, thoughts about a return to the workplace are not just centered around plexiglass dividers, sanitizer dispensers, and separated workstations.
California farming country buckles under COVID-19. Will pandemic make or break the Valley?
Gov. Gavin Newsom described the Valley as his “biggest area of concern” recently and dispatched three of his coronavirus “strike teams” to the region to help local officials halt the spread.
Blueprint for a Safer Economy
California has a blueprint for reducing COVID-19 in the state with revised criteria for loosening and tightening restrictions on activities.