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 December 4, 2020, here’s what we’re reading:
- EDC study finds one in four local firms engaged in AI
- GoSite raises $40M to help small businesses go online
- Flock Freight raises $113.5M to pool truck freight shipments
- San Diego’s Quarterly Economic Snapshot
- Economy in Crisis: SD housing market advances, but geographic differences remain
- Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute’s scientists develop drug that improves stem cells’ ability to heal
- Business accelerator aims to help Black entrepreneurs succeed during pandemic
- Suffolk hires Jennifer McCarthy as Director of Strategic Client Development for San Diego
…and here are the events we’re (virtually) attending:
- December 9 – UC San Diego
Investing in University Technologies: Founder’s Equity CEO Assessment - December 9 – Qualcomm
Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerate 2020
Small businesses: Apply to host interns!
Through Advancing San Diego, we are providing San Diego small companies with paid, remote business interns from top regional educational programs we call Preferred Providers—at no charge. Applications are open until December 18, 2020.
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 San Diego. 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