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Community Spotlight: Priya Natasha Gupta
Tech workers from across the Bay Area have joined TechEquity’s network and are giving their time, skills, and financial support to make their communities more equitable. We’re proud of our growing community full of smart, passionate, engaged citizens and we want to show them off! Meet Priya Bay Area native… Read More
6 Ways that Proposition 13 Sucks
Most people know that Prop 13 changed the way the California collects property taxes, pegging the rate landowners pay to the value of the property at the time of purchase, rather than its market value. But there are also some little known elements of the measure that have wreaked havoc… Read More
Prop 13 Reform: Back and Better Than Ever
For the last two years, TechEquity has been a part of an unprecedented statewide coalition to reform a decades-old property tax law, Proposition 13. We’ve written extensively about why Prop 13 is in need of reform. In short, the Schools and Communities Funding Act will close the corporate… Read More
The Business Case for an Equity Strategy Part 5: Activate Employees to Drive Impact
In the fifth and final part of our blog series on the business case for a corporate equity strategy, we examine employee engagement strategies that can improve business outcomes and relationships with the community. You can read up on parts 1–4 and explore how strategies, like… Read More
Community Spotlight: Gina Tomlinson
Tech workers from across the Bay Area have joined TechEquity’s network and are giving their time, skills, and financial support to make their communities more equitable. We’re proud of our growing community full of smart, passionate, engaged citizens and we want to show them off! Meet Gina Gina is currently… Read More
Community Spotlight: Kevin Lee
Tech workers from across the Bay Area have joined TechEquity’s network and are giving their time, skills, and financial support to make their communities more equitable. We’re proud of our growing community full of smart, passionate, engaged citizens and we want to show them off! Meet Kevin Kevin Lee was… Read More
The Business Case for an Equity Strategy Part 4: Responsible Contracting
In the fourth part of our business case for an equity strategy, we’ll discuss responsible contracting. If you’d like to get caught up on the first three parts of the blog series, you can check those out here. Tech companies are outsourcing work they consider to be… Read More
The Business Case for an Equity Strategy Part 3: Hire Locally
In the first two parts of this blog series, we examined how tech companies can drive local impact by engaging on public policy issues and leveraging their products for good. The next part of this series will dig into hiring practices. We’ll examine how hiring… Read More
We Made History
We won! With the passage of the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, California now has the most significant tenant protection laws in the country, covering more renters than any bill in American history. We are proud to have helped get this historic statewide legislation off the ground and signed into… Read More
The Business Case for an Equity Strategy Part 2: Leverage Your Product for Good
Last week we published the first post in our five-part series on the business case for tech companies to invest in an equity strategy. Part one explored the benefits of engaging on policy issues important to the community. In part two, we examine how companies can build… Read More