Over the past decade, Working Partnerships USA has become one of the leading social change organizations in California. Our accomplishments include:

 Access to Quality Healthcare | Read More

•  Healthy Workers – Developed a new model for providing affordable health insurance to uninsured adults working for small businesses.
• Children’s Health Initiative – Pioneered a program in 2001, which now provides health coverage to more than 121,000 Santa Clara County children and has been replicated in seventeen counties. 

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• San Jose Living Wage Ordinance – Led the campaign for a 2008 San Jose ordinance to expand living wage requirements and labor peace to over 7600 workers.
• Team San Jose – Launched a public/private partnership formed in 2004 to manage the San Jose Convention Center, restore its financial viability, and preserve high-quality jobs.

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• Increased Affordable Housing – Led the successful fight for increased affordable housing funding and secured a commitment from the City of San Jose to build 5000 new affordable housing in Coyote Valley.
• Community Budget Working Group  – Led the 2008 effort to create San Jose’s first Community Budget Working Group (CBWG) which engages citizens in solving the City’s budget problems while maintaining vital services.
• City of San Jose’s Competition Policy – Shaped the San Jose policy to safeguard against negative impacts on city service quality in 2009.
• Limiting Negative Impacts of Big Box Stores – Led a successful community effort to propose and advocate a new Santa Clara City ordinance to limit the building of ‘Big Box’ stores within city limits. 
• Expanded Public Transportation – Spearheaded the creation of the RIDE Task Force, a first-of-its kind committee that gives community groups an institutional voice in transit policy, advocated the expansion of the Santa Clara County Light Rail system to San Jose’s East Side, and staved off cuts to bus service.

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• LeaderNet – Created a leadership-training institute that has increased the skills and networks of over 250 community and elected leaders.
•  The Interfaith Council – Convenes South Bay clergy and laity to foster a progressive faith-based voice.
•  Publications - Life in the Valley Economy: Silicon Valley Progress Report Working Partnerships USA's annual economic report, Life in the Valley Economy (LIVE), evaluates the state of working families in Silicon Valley.