Burnham Center (BCCA)
Burnham Center (BCCA)
The Burnham Center for Community Advancement is a think-and-do tank that helps make the San Diego binational region a better place to live, work and play for all. It serves as a nexus point where community stakeholders and multi-sector partners come together to identify regional needs, find innovative solutions and tackle some of our most pressing issues.
Catalyst (UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy)
Catalyst (UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy)
An initiative of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Catalyst’s goal is to broker partnerships and provides practical, effective policy recommendations to improve U.S. competitiveness and enhance global stability and prosperity. Catalyst focuses specifically on improving links between security organizations, entrepreneurs, academia, and investors, and by addressing structural and policy barriers that often block innovative solutions.
Center for Technical and Higher Studies (CETYS)
Center for Technical and Higher Studies (CETYS)
The Center for Technical and Higher Studies (CETYS University) is a private institution of educational excellence, founded in 1961 in Baja California, Mexico under the auspices of a group of visionary entrepreneurs committed to education. CETYS’s mission is to contribute to the formation of people with the necessary moral and intellectual capacity to participate in a significant way in the economic, social and cultural improvement of the country.
CONNECT
CONNECT
Connect San Diego is a San Diego community nonprofit that elevates entrepreneurs by providing educational programming, mentorship, introductions, and access to capital. Connect helps innovative companies thrive so they can make a meaningful impact in the development of the San Diego region.
Design Lab
Design Lab
The UC San Diego Design Lab works on major societal issues, such as large-scale education, automation, healthcare, visualization of complex phenomena and data, social interactions, citizen science, and ethical issues that are of ever-increasing importance. For the Design Lab, design is a way of thinking, addressing the core issues, always taking a systems point of view, and emphasizing the role of people in the complex systems of the modern world.
Digital Gym Cinema
Digital Gym Cinema
The Digital Gym Cinema, San Diego’s one-of-a-kind movie theater showcasing the best in independent and foreign cinema, is owned and operated by the Media Arts Center San Diego, a non-profit organization committed to providing filmmaking tools and media education to under-resourced communities in an effort to create social change.
National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC)
National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC)
NCRC provides the resources, training, and expertise to help people, organizations, and communities manage and solve conflicts, with civility. Built on the principle that every dispute has a solution, the National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) serves a variety of communities in both the public and private sectors — regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Qualcomm Institute
Qualcomm Institute
The Qualcomm Institute is the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), one of four Gray Davis Institutes for Science and Innovation located on University of California campuses. The institute’s strategic vision stresses collaborative, interdisciplinary research in four core areas to benefit society: culture, energy, the environment, and health.
San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce (SDBCC)
San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce (SDBCC)
The County of San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce utilizes innovative programs, networking opportunities, and business partnerships to advance and strengthen Inclusive Economic Development throughout the City and County of San Diego. SDBCC’s mission is to create generational wealth through business enterprise, education, employment, and investing.
San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC)
San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation (EDC)
San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation – EDC for short – is an independently-funded economic development organization that mobilizes business, government, and civic leaders around an inclusive economic development strategy in order to connect data to decision making, maximize regional prosperity, enhance global competitiveness, and position San Diego effectively for investment and talent.
San Diego Workforce Partnership
San Diego Workforce Partnership
The San Diego Workforce Partnership equips job seekers to increase their economic mobility, help businesses grow, rebuild, and thrive equitably, and prepares children and young adults for the world of work. The Workforce Partnership believes in the power and dignity of work, fights for equity and inclusion and dedicates itself to building programs that meet people where they are. The Workforce Partnership offers services, custom programs and targeted initiatives that are redefining what workforce development can—and must—be.
Urban Studies and Planning, Real Estate and Development
Urban Studies and Planning, Real Estate and Development
UC San Diego’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning is an undergraduate community of students with diverse interests and goals. The department provides students with a variety of approaches and tools to understand the development, character, and culture of cities and communities. USP draws from the social sciences, arts and humanities, physical and life sciences, management and information sciences.