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Visit Our Website Newsletter February 2018 Highlights Health Week HealthX Friday, April 20th HealthX on Friday, April 20th at Adventist Health Glendale's Main Auditorium is a TEDX talk style program that features presentations and demonstrations on new innovations in healthcare and advances in health and wellness. Presenters include top doctors, health professionals, hospitals and health providers. Topics and speakers to be announced. Agenda: 7:30am8:30am Registration, Networking and Breakfast 8:30am10:30am Program, Presentations, and Panel Discussion with Questions from Audience Visit www.tinyurl.com/HealthX2018 for tickets, presenter and sponsorship opportunities.
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February 2018 Highlights
Health Week
HealthX Friday, April 20th
HealthX on Friday, April 20th at Adventist Health Glendale's Main Auditorium is a TEDX talkstyle program that features presentations and demonstrations on new innovations inhealthcare and advances in health and wellness. Presenters include top doctors, healthprofessionals, hospitals and health providers. Topics and speakers to be announced.
Agenda:7:30am8:30am Registration, Networking and Breakfast8:30am10:30am Program, Presentations, and Panel Discussion with Questions fromAudience
Visit www.tinyurl.com/HealthX2018 for tickets, presenter and sponsorship opportunities.
Health Expo and Career Fair Wednesday, April 25th
Attendees at the Health Expo and Career Fair will learn about healthy living from healthbusinesses and providers, get free health screenings, and network with employers looking fortalent.
Visit www.tinyurl.com/HealthExpoCareerFair2018 for general admission tickets andsponsorship opportunities.
"Hero Hired" Career and Resource Fair Recap
The Valley Economic Alliance presented the "Hero Hired" Career and Resource Fair onThursday, February 15 at Los Angeles Valley College's (LAVC) Monarch Hall.
A special ribbon cutting ceremony opened event doors to more than 500 veterans, job seekersand more than 60 employers and resource companies.
Master of Ceremoniesand actor KevinDobson kicked off theevent, followed bypresentation of colorsby students fromNorth Valley MilitaryInstitute's CollegePreparatory. LAVCPresident Dr. ErikaEndrijonas, City ofCalabasasCouncilmember DavidShapiro, Ryan White,Senior Lead Officer ofLos Angeles PoliceDepartment and TalinBaghdassarian,Recruiter Western
Region Greater California of presenting sponsor Wells Fargo also delivered remarks.
Patriotic artist David ShwARTZ unveiled his latest American icon piece "First to Respond, Lastto Leave since 1869." The painting honors the 148 year history of the Los Angeles PoliceDepartment. This year's flag was donated by the LAPD.
Event sponsors include Wells Fargo, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Glendale Community College, LosAngeles Valley College, Concorde Career College, City of Los Angeles WorkforceDevelopment Board, Maximus, Republic Services, Care More Health and San Fernando ValleyAdvisory Council. Media Sponsors include Daily News and San Fernando Sun.
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A Learning Luncheon for NonProfit Organizations
The Valley Economic Alliance hosted Heart of Giving on February 14th; alearning luncheon for nonprofit organizations to explore new ways to increase revenue andreduce expenses.
More than 10 nonprofits were in attendance including New Horizons, MEND, VEDC, TierraDel Sol, Los Angeles Jewish Home, AIA SFV, Cancer Support Community, CalabasasChamber of Commerce, United Chambers of Commerce, Penny Lane Centers and more.
Presentations included Rainmaking by Rainmaking Resources, The Valley Economic Alliance'sbusiness assistance program, advancing your cause for good in the Valleys by the CommunityFoundation of the Valleys, Community Giving by Wells Fargo and Alltemp Solutions.
The luncheon was sponsored by Bolton and Company. The next nonprofit learning luncheonis set for August 2018.
Photo 1: Pictured from left; Luis Gonzalez, AVP Community Relations of Wells Fargo; GreggSherkin, Vice President, Senior Manager, Community Relations, Southern California of WellsFargo; Jack Orlee, Vice President of Community Development with Wells Fargo, TamaraGurney, Chairman of Community Foundation of the Valleys, Briget Loden, Executive Directorof Community Foundation of the Valleys; Hank Frazee, CEO of Rainmaking Resources;Jeannie DeLaura, Senior Vice President of Bolton and Company; Guillermo Gonzalez,Associate Vice President of Bolton and Company; Heath Patton, Partner of Alltemp Solutionsand Kenn Phillips, President and CEO of The Valley Economic Alliance.
Photo 2: Rainmaking demonstration by Hank Frazee, CEO of Rainmaking Resources.
The program was live streamed and can be viewed here.
Comerica Recognizes The Valley Economic Alliance! Comerica Bank hosted a grand reopening reception at their Los Angeles Crenshaw BankingCenter on February 22nd and showed appreciation for their customers and communitypartners including The Valley Economic Alliance with a $25,000 donation! Attendees alsoenjoyed food, drinks and music.
Photo from left: Caroline Chambers, Vice President / National Diversity and InclusionPrograms Manager; Jeff Cohen with The Valley Economic Alliance's BusinessAccelerator Program; Mark Campbell, Senior Vice President / Credit AdministrationOfficer; Angela Knight, Vice President / Relationship Manager, Los Angeles BusinessBanking; Crystalyn Evans, Assistant Vice President / Banking Center Manager LA Crenshawand Don Kincey, CA External Affairs & Corporate Communications and Economic AllianceBoard member.
Leadership in an Age of Disruption
California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in partnership with The Valley EconomicAlliance launched a Certificate of Advanced Professional Development program focusedon leadership development for midlevel and seniorlevel managers/leaders at the "Hero Hired"Career and Resource Fair on February 15th.
Those coming into changing and/or evolving contemporary organizations in the L.A. urbanregion from more traditionally structured organizations, such as the military, will benefit fromthis new program. The certificate will focus on developing leadership skills, leading diverse
teams to design solutions, and crafting and implementing innovations that give an organizationa competitive advantage.
The planned launch of the certified program is the end of Spring 2018 and will consist of 100+hours of engaged instruction. This is a distinctive, graded and transcripted CSUN professionaldevelopment credential for midcareer professionals and their employers. The program will beavailable for contracted custom delivery for public, private sector employers or associationswith groups of 1030 participants.
The purpose of the program is to:
Develop leadership talent appropriate for the contemporary working context oforganizations.Enable managers with experience in more traditional contexts to transition into thecontemporary working context of organizations in urban L.A. and the surroundingregion.Enable veterans to manage the transition from military to leadership roles in privatesector organizations.Provide participants with the leadership skills needed to engage in and capitalize on thesignificant innovative advantages of organizational diversity.Prepare participants to lead a multigenerational workforce in an organizational context.Enable future business leaders to lead organizations through the chaos and complexityof the new global business model.
To receive more information about this program, contact Jonathan Clayden [email protected] or 8186776759.
In the NewsA Sporting Chance for Promenade 2035 Project
By Mark Madler, San Fernando Valley Business Journal Monday, February 5, 2018
Could "Play ball!" be heard in the Warner Center in the coming years?
The Westfield Group is moving ahead with plans to remake the Westfield Promenade shoppingcenter into a big mixeduse complex, including a sports facility that could house a minor leaguebaseball team or some other sport.
Larry Green, a Senior Vice President for Development of the Westfield Group, said January 25that the shopping center owner is talking to several sports teams about the possibility of puttinga practice facility or minor league team in what is envisioned to be a 15,000seat sports arenaor stadium at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Oxnard Street, which is the southwest corner ofthe Promenade property.
Green made his comments during and after a board meeting of The Valley Economic
Alliance at Valley Presbyterian Hospital.
"I think there is interest from minor league baseball teams to come and play here," Green saidafter the meeting. Because a minor league team would be moving into Los Angeles, the inmarket major league teams essentially have veto power. "The Angels and the Dodgers willhave to approve any team that comes. The Dodgers would have to approve the Angels; theAngels would have to approve (the Dodgers). They both have to agree," he said.
"There is a trend that is happening in baseball that you are seeing the minor league teamscome closer and closer to the urban areas, so I think there is a desire. But we will have to seewhat happens," he said, adding that "there are a lot of minor league baseball teams inCalifornia," so any minor league tenant could be a team other than one affiliated with theDodgers or Angels.
Green said his company put out a request for proposals several months ago for the possiblesports site, and some proposals call for the site to be used for entertainment. The request for
proposals also indicated the center could have a roof on it.
Westfield's plan is to scrape the old mall and create a large $1.5 billion mixeduse complex.When completed, the project would have 1,432 residential units, 244,000 square feet of retailspace, 629,000 square feet of office space, and two hotels with 572 guest rooms, in addition tothe 320,000squarefoot entertainment and sports center.
The Westfield project is still moving through the city's approval process. Construction wouldstart on the northeast corner of the property at Owensmouth Avenue and Erwin Street andprogress counterclockwise around the property. The first phase would be completed in 2021. Itwould take an additional 14 years to finish the entire project.
Promenade 2035 was the result of the work done by area stakeholders on the Warner Center2035 plan that set development guidelines and goals.
The Los Angeles City Council approved the Warner Center 2035 plan in October 2013. Thegoal of the plan was to make Warner Center a more walkable area where people would notneed their cars to get to work or find entertainment, dining and other amenities."This can be a new ingredient to create a downtown feel in the Warner Center," Green said ofWestfield's project.
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Out and About
TVEA's Chairman Randy Wittwith investor ValleyPresbyterian Hospital attheir Corporate CircleNetworking Reception onFebruary 21st.
Pictured from left;Gustavo Valdespino,President & CEO, ValleyPresbyterian Hospital; PegiMatsuda, FoundationPresident, Senior VPCommunity Development;Randy Witt and PeterKoetters, MD, Former Chiefof Staff.
The Los Angeles
Economic
Development
Corporation
(LAEDC) hostedtheir 2018"EconomicForecast" onFebruary 21st atthe Omni Hotel.
New ChiefEconomist StevenBanks deliveredthe state and
regional economic outlook for tax reform, labor, wages, and what the future will look like for thelocal economy.
Pictured is TVEA Board member and LAEDC's CEO, Bill Allen.
Kenn Phillipspresented "How toCreate a PerfectEvent" to eventplanning andmanagement classstudents at CalLutheran University
on February 12th.
At David Schwartz's studioinfront of his "AmericanIcon" series. The painting onfar right was presented atthe "Hero Hired" Career andResource Fair on February15th.
TVEA InvestorsLos Angeles
Tourism and
Convention
Board hosted aLunch and Learnon February20th, to giveupdates to localmeetingplanners. Thepartners inattendance wereUniversalStudios, HiltonUniversal, TheEverly, HotelAmarano, The Garland, Hilton Garden Inn Hollywood. Lunch was catered by Ruth's ChrisSteakhouse Woodland Hills.
Los Angeles Tech Talent
Pipeline's sixmonth update onFebruary 6th at LosAngeles City Hall's pressconference room, hostedby the Office of Mayor EricGarcetti and BixelExchange.
Pictured is
Councilmember MikeBonin, 11th District.
TVEA Investors, TopLeaders Inc. welcomedseven new IntegrityCoaches to their team. Wendy Baines, DonaldHoel, Jr, JasmineMartin, Roger Nielsen (notpictured,) MitraRamtin and Erika Zecca(not pictured)completed eight weeks oftraining and received theirProfessional CoachingCertification.
"Speaking your Business" Toastmasters Club Launch
The Valley Economic Alliance, Women's Collaborative Mentoring Program and ToastmastersInternational are hosting their club launch starting Tuesday, March 20th and every first andthird Tuesday of each month from 6:00pm8:00pm. Learn how to clearly communicate andspeak your business.
Please call 8183592692 to register.
In the News Down in the Dumps Over Garbage Law
Monday, February 5, 2018San Fernando Valley Business Journal
If you're still steaming about L.A.'s new trash system which so far has resulted in poorerservice and much higher costs just wait.
The state is hitting businesses with a different plan next year: A new recycling mandate thatcalls on businesses to sort food waste and landscape trimmings from the rest of the trash andget a separate pickup for that.
As you may have read in the last issue of the Business Journal ("Stiff Price for Trash"), no oneknows how much this will cost business operators, but the extra pickup alone could well behundreds or even thousands of dollars a month for those businesses targeted by the law.
And if you think your business wouldn't possibly be caught by this new state law, you may wantto hold that jot of happiness. Any business that generates four cubic yards of organic waste aweek would be hit. Four cubic yards is enough to fill a large dumpster which, granted, ispretty big but consider that the organic waste includes not only food but any foodcontaminated wrappers or containers, such as napkins, paper plates and even pizza boxes.Oh, and remember that organic waste includes landscape trimmings grass clippings, leaves,etc. and suddenly that foursquareyard threshold starts looking small.
That means if you operate a mediumsized business with an employee cafeteria, you'llprobably be affected. Ditto if you are lucky enough to have a fair amount of landscaping aroundyour building. Ditto if you own an apartment complex with five or more units. And if you operatea restaurant, even a small one, well, forget about it.
Another thing: if the state determines that it's not meeting its organic recycling mandate, theycan decrease the tipping point to two cubic yards, effective Jan. 1, 2020. Obviously, thatmeans many more businesses would be caught in the new system in a couple of years.
In case it hasn't occurred to you already, let's mention this: It also means that if you areaffected by the new law, you will have to come up with a system to sort the organic garbagefrom the rest of your trash. Another expense. Oh, and find room for another dumpster.
This is a new state law, so it means all businesses in California are potentially exposed. Butbusinesses that also are in the city of Los Angeles, and that includes most of the SanFernando Valley, may really feel down in the dumps. That's because of the city law that createdfranchised zones some call them monopolies recently for trash haulers. The result has beenmissed trash pickups and generally bad service along with much higher prices. Onerestaurateur quoted in our previous issue said his refuse pickup bill went from $895 a month to$2,200, which comports with other examples I've heard.
Kenn Phillips of The Valley Economic Alliance has an interesting idea. He is looking forbusinesses or institutions that would be willing to create industrialstrength organic recyclingoperations on their grounds. That way, local businesses could ferry their garbage to the localsite, cutting down on the long transport that state officials envision way out in the desert forrecycling. Perhaps that would keep the costs lower for the businesses.
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Aviation Career DayFriday, April 27, 2018
Van Nuys Airport (VNY) is hosting Aviation Career Day on Friday, April 27th from 9:00am3:00pm. Each year, approximately 1,400 high school students come to the airport to learn fromexperts in the aviation and aerospace industries. The event features presentations,demonstrations, exhibits, panel discussion and airport tours which run every 30 minutes.
Businesses interested in exhibiting at AviationCareer Day can register by contacting KoriOyler or Sandra Petersonat [email protected]. Students interested inlearning about aviation careers at AviationCareer Day should see their career counselorto sign up.
Aviation Careers Education Academy; afree, weeklong motivational summer programdesigned to introduce middle and high schoolstudents to the broad spectrum of careeropportunities within the aviation/aeronauticalindustry and educate students about airport
operations at both VNY and Los AngelesInternational Airport. The program is nowaccepting applications. "For young people interested in aviation, thereis nothing more exciting than spending a weekof their summer vacation learning directly fromexperienced individuals in the field, includingpilots, veterans, mechanics, engineers andaviation professionals," said Diana Sanchez,VNY Public and Community RelationsDirector.
"This unique program offers students a firsthand look at aviation careers and provides anopportunity to meet and network withprofessionals to gain insider tips on enteringthe industry," said Sanchez. Summer 2018 academy dates:
July 9 July 13 Middle school (grades 79)July 23 July 27 High school (grades 1012)
Students are encouraged to apply to thesummer academy by contacting the VNY
Public and Community Relations office at (818) 4426526.
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