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Greetings!
Welcome to summer! Hopefully you have many opportunities to enjoy the long days of sunshine ahead.
As many of you know already, I'll be enjoying this summer with a new baby (any day now!). While I am gone expect to hear from Meg Arnold, the fabulous consultant who will be managing the GCA while I am away on maternity leave.
I want to thank Meg in advance for all of her work over the next few months, because I know she will do a great job uniting our partners to make the region a clean energy leader.
Until autumn,
Kristine |
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Event: SARTA's TechSurge Host: SARTA Date and Time: July 16 2009, 5:30pm-8:00pm Location: The Citizen Hotel Rooftop Terrace-926 J Street Focus: SARTA is hosting their first summer networking mixer for emerging technology executives. For more information and to register, go to www.sartaevents.org.
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| SARTA's VentureStart program fosters high tech start-ups |
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The Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance (SARTA), a technology-focused organization and partner of the Green Capital Alliance, is connecting clean tech entrepreneurs and start-up companies with mentors in their VentureStart program. Launching a new technology business can be challenging, even with the right idea or product. SARTA aims to negate any barriers to entry for viable clean energy businesses through their no-cost VentureStart program. The goal of the VentureStart is to connect new business teams to regional investment resources and the professional community through SARTA's network, while providing an education on how to get funding and move the business forward.
Sixteen local companies are currently in the program, and the mentor list includes successful entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, company executives, and others. Companies can apply to be reviewed for admission by a team mainly made up of regional investors, and companies accepted into the program are partnered with mentors. |
| Green Capital Alliance completes region's first green workforce training inventory |
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 With federal stimulus dollars flowing to the region GCA's workforce training partners, including the Sacramento Employment and Training Agency, Sacramento Works, and the Golden Sierra Workforce Investment Board, recognized the need for an inventory of the region's green job training programs.
Program information has been collected from area education institutions, utility training centers, clean energy organizations and associations, and other providers. Using this inventory and a series of studies forecasting job growth in the Sacramento region's clean energy sector, the GCA has completed an analysis of the training gaps. As follow-up we have interviewed local clean energy employers to gather their insights on how to design new courses and programs to fill these gaps.
Using stimulus-funded grants through the Workforce Investment Boards, our local education and training providers will use this information to help create the workforce needed for the future. An overview of these findings and the inventory will be available in July as an added feature to the current GCA website.
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SACTO launches "If We Tell You" campaign marketing the Sacramento region
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| The Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization (SACTO) a network of public and private partnerships working to attract business investment to the region, launched their "If We Tell You" campaign in May distributing postcards marketing Sacramento's various assets and amenities. Several marketing messages spotlight the area's clean energy accomplishments.
SACTO is mailing a different postcard each month for 16 months nationally and internationally to attract businesses and others to the capital region. Electronic versions of the postcards are being sent within the region to build pride and awareness of Sacramento's strengths.
Each postcard has a different photograph depicting life in the Sacramento region and reads "If we tell you..." followed by facts about the region's businesses, entertainment, universities, and more, and finishes with, "...you'll want to move there!" See the first solar-focused postcard here.
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