Every week, ‘Good News of the Week’ features a curation of positive headlines from San Diego, delivered straight to your inbox. A blend of aggregated stories from San Diego’s most trusted news sources and original EDC-created content, GNOTW provides a comprehensive recap of the region’s best stories from the past week.
For the week of August 7, 2020, here’s what we’re reading:
- Central San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce raises more than $500,000 to aid Black-owned businesses
- San Diego’s Avelas Biosciences helps surgeons remove tumors by making them glow
- Sanford Burnham Prebys awarded $4.5M for mental illness therapeutics
- ASML’s San Diego team makes microchips smaller
- Acutus Medical announces pricing of initial public offering
- San Diego’s Hologic produces one-third of all COVID-19 kits in US
- AT&T expands eligibility requirements to provide affordable internet for distance learning
- Economy in crisis: Fresh thinking on career advancement is needed
…and here are the events we’re (virtually) attending:
- August 10-13 – TEDxSanDiego
Re:Think-Imagine-Create - August 11 – GO-Biz
California Competes Tax Credit Webinar - August 12 – The Ken Blanchard Companies
San Diego Community Forum - August 20 – Gary & Mary West Foundation
San Diego Science & the Global Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Senior Population
Meet Advancing San Diego’s Preferred Providers of engineering talent
We’re pleased to announce Advancing San Diego’s Preferred Providers of engineering talent – five local employer-recognized educational programs that are effectively training San Diego’s next generation of engineers. Local small companies may now apply to host engineering interns from Preferred Provider programs, and we’ll pay for them. Learn More and Apply.
San Diego business resources:
Amidst everything happening in the world, we need a reminder that there’s plenty of ‘Good News’ to go around in SD. We have also compiled additional resources for businesses and individuals seeking additional guidance
For businesses:
- Find information at EDC’s COVID-19 page
- Find North County information at Innovate78’s COVID-19 page
- Apply for disaster loan assistance
- Access San Diego Workforce Partnership’s updates for businesses
- Pivot operations to produce PPE, sanitizer, & more
- Find additional guidance from the CDC
- Apply for San Diego County’s Small Business Stimulus Program
- Employers with more than 100 employees: enroll in CalSavers by September 30, 2020.
For individuals:
- See which San Diego companies are still hiring
- Access San Diego Workforce Partnership’s updates for individuals
- Donate to the COVID-19 Community Response Fund
- Find additional guidance from the CDC
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Heather Dewis
Manager, Marketing