This past Sunday The Desert Sun featured an article on the Coachella Valley Innovation Hub (CViHub) hosted right here at our offices, the Rabobank Regional Business Center. The article interviewed some of our CViHub clients as well as interviewed stakeholders in the program and talked the importance of this "grow-your-own economic development." Do you know what we have incubating right here to grow jobs and increase economic diversification of the Valley? Click here to read the various articles featured in last weekend's Desert Sun.    

This week CVEP joined a constituency of Coachella Valley leaders on a train ride to the Amtrak Maintenance Yard and the Los Angeles Union Station.   The mission of the trip was to explore commuter train possibilities between the Coachella Valley and Los Angeles. Logistics is one of the Blueprint's four target business sectors and it is CVEP's objective to demonstrate the viability of public transportation with a special emphasis on passenger rail here in the Coachella Valley. 

This week's CVEP's Pathways to Success team hosted workshops throughout the valley to encourage college going students and their parents to complete the FAFSA, which must be completed in order for a student to receive a federal grant, loan or scholarship for college. We had a great turn out as each high school and the College of the Desert competed for highest increase in number of completed applications. Thanks to the schools, counselors, and everyone who helped make this a success. Each completed application has the potential to send a Coachella Valley student to college and result in one more educated citizen in the workforce. Below is a picture that along with an article ran in The Desert Sun.