Pop-Up Panel: Getting Economic Growth to the Neighborhoods that Need It

California Groundbreakers

** This event was held on February 27, 2019 at Antiquite Midtown in Sacramento ** One of the City of Sacramento’s big initiatives: Come up with the right jobs strategy that boosts all of its neighborhoods, especially those with less-than average employment rates and high poverty. So how is that going? How is Sacramento residents' feedback on the matter being used? What is funding being spent on, and who and where is it benefiting? And how can the City’s government, businesses, nonprofits and us individuals turn these efforts into tangible economic growth and good jobs that boost people’s incomes and improve the neighborhoods they live in? Join us for another “cocktail conversation” with some Californians who are giving their all to boost economic growth in neighborhoods that need it — and find out how you can help them with their efforts. PANELISTS * Melissa Anguiano, economic development manager for the City of Sacramento * Nicholas Haystings - president and executive director of Square Root Academy, a nonprofit that puts on after-school programs and community events in STEM skills for underrepresented students * Mariah Lichtenstern - founding partner and managing director of DiverseCity Ventures, a venture capital firm that funds tech companies run by underserved founders * Tyrone Roderick Williams - director of Sacramento Promise Zone, and director of development for Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency * Dianna Tremblay - Director of Acceleration for ICA Fund Good Jobs, a nonprofit, impact investment firm focused on creating jobs and economic opportunity in San Francisco and Oakland’s inner cities PODCAST PLAY BY PLAY * O to 7:15 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers, and about this topic * 7:15 min - Panelists introduce themselves, and share the most "interesting" job they've had to date * 11:15 min - Details about how the City of Sacramento is going to tackle economic inequality * 18:05 min - What is the Sacramento Promise Zone? * 24:35 min - How STEM skills are expected to secure good jobs -- and how they're being taught in underserved neighborhoods * 28:45 min - What's the landscape like in Sacramento for entrepreneurs from economically-disadvantaged areas who want to start and build businesses? * 34:25 min - How one Bay Area org does it re creating jobs and building economic growth - and how that can be applied here to Sacramento * 41:50 min - How much should city governments do -- and offer -- to lure companies to town and bring jobs to neighborhoods that need them? * 50:45 min - What's the private sector's role in getting jobs and economic growth to underserved neighborhoods -- and what should it be? * 53:30 min - What are efforts to getting economic equality to the City's schools? * 1 hr, 2:45 min - For struggling neighborhoods that are not in a Promise Zone or an Opportunity Zone, how can they get resources and funding to boost their economic growth? * 1 hr, 6:20 min - How do you bring the "entrepreneurial spirit" to residents in neighborhoods who have potential but may not have that type of business background or knowledge? * 1 hr, 16:05 min - What can we, as individuals and as California residents, do to help get economic growth to neighborhoods that need it?