Are you curious to find out what our Voting Member Block has been up to recently?
Find Their Latest Report Outs Here
Who Makes Up Our Voting Member Block?
The Voting Member Block is balanced regionally and accounts for all eleven Required Partner Categories* and voices from Priority Communities*.
What Does The Voting Member Block Do?
Key decisions are made by the approximately 45 voting members that comprise the Voting Member Block.
Voting Member Block: Regionally Balanced, With Key Partners and Community Voices
*Required Partner Categories:
Our eleven Required Partner Groups were established by the State, and are to have an equal voice in decision-making. These include:
- Business/Business Organizations
- Community-Based Organizations
- Economic Development Agencies
- Education/Training Centers
- Environmental Justice
- Federally and non-Federally recognized Tribes
- Government
- Labor
- Philanthropy
- Priority (“disinvested”) Communities (see overview below)
- Workforce Development partners
*Redwood Region RISE's Priority Communities:
Redwood Region RISE strives to center the voices of and seeks input and participation from community members representing or advocating for the following Priority Communities:
- Advocates for People of Color (e.g. Black Lives Matter, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, New Hmong Rising Association, etc.)
- Communities of Color
- Immigrants with Documentation (e.g. work visas)
- Individuals that live in extremely remote/rural areas of the Redwood Coast Region (Redwood Region RISE)
- Individuals who were Formerly Incarcerated
- Individuals that are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (HoH)
- Individuals with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities
- Individuals with Learning Disabilities
- Individuals with Physical Disabilities
- Individuals with Vision Impairment
- Individuals without Broadband Access
- Individuals without Documentation
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Asexual, Intersex + (LGBTQAI+)
- Members of religions and ethnic minority communities
- Monolingual Hmong-Speakers
- Monolingual Spanish Speakers
- New Citizens
- Non-federally Recognized Tribal Nations
- Seniors
- Tribal Citizens
- Tribal Governments
- Unions
- Workers
- Youth
- Zero-car Households
- Single Parent Households
How To Engage With Our Voting Member Block
Ways To Stay Involved | Intended Outcomes |
| Attend our monthly Collaborative meetings | Develop an understanding of economic development in (and beyond) our Region |
| Complete our Partner Survey | Use your input to inform our Regional Plan |
| Log your project(s) in our Project Inventory Form | Help catalog projects in our region that are eligible for funding under California Jobs First |
| Share our information with your networks | Use your networks' input to inform our Regional Plan |
| Reach out to participate in a 30-minute Listening Session | Co-create long-term implementation & communications strategy, and inform our Regional Plan |
| Receive our Redwood Region RISE Newsletters | Stay informed on our initiative and receive useful resources and data |
| Join our LinkedIn Group | Stay informed and join the community conversations |
