…Closing the gap between rich and poor
Founded in 1995, Working Partnerships USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on closing the gap between rich and poor in Silicon Valley.
Through strategic initiatives that build the institutional power of working class communities, we reframe policy issues and create replicable models for progressive reform.
Our work is concentrated in these areas:
- Health Care: Affordable, Quality Access for All
- Government Accountability and Reform: Open, Fair Decision Making
- Economic Research and Analysis: Building Shared Prosperity
- Organizing and Leadership Development: Social Change through Coalition Building
Working Partnerships USA also houses Union Community Resources, which provides emergency financial assistance from union members to families that suffer unanticipated economic hardship.
Working Partnerships is a public policy and research institute that builds partnerships with community groups, labor unions, and faith based organizations to improve the lives of working families in Silicon Valley.
By combining the skills of research and policy development, advocacy, and organizing, we create innovative, practical solutions to problems facing working people and the middle class. Our accomplishments include winning a living wage for workers in San Jose, pioneering universal health insurance for children in Santa Clara County, and ensuring that public subsidies for local economic development are accountable to the community.
We strive to create replicable and scalable models for action and to share these statewide and nationally.
2102 Almaden Road, Ste. 107 San Jose, CA 95125
p: 408.269.7872
f: 408.269.0183
e: info@wpusa.org