Step Up Silicon Valley –The Campaign to Cut Poverty by fifty percent by 2020!

Step Up Silicon Valley is a collaborative community initiative to Cut Poverty in Santa Clara County by fifty percent by 2020. The initiative utilizes innovative and strategic poverty prevention methodologies. It focuses on establishing an effective and collaborative network with local, regional, and national policy makers, business and community leaders, social services agencies, faith-based organizations, foundations, philanthropists, and individuals impacted by poverty to discuss how to cut poverty in half by 2020. Step Up Silicon Valley’s approach is to create the will in the community to cut poverty by increasing awareness, shaping public policy, and incubating in innovative programs to better meet the needs of the poor.

African Diaspora Network

African Diaspora Network is an initiative of Entwine Global in partnership with Africans and friends of Africa who live and work in Silicon Valley and other parts of the United States.  Its mission is to mobilize, inform, engage, and allow Africans in the diaspora in collaboration with social entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders, to invest and improve the lives of Africans.  The Network will use an online and offline platform to harness the intellectual capacity of Africans living in the United States and other parts of the world in order to promote educational, economic, and entrepreneurial development in Africa.

Opportunities for Educating the Public: A National, Regional, and Catholic Organizations Study: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

Entwine Global conducted internal and external assessment of public ethics education in American society for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.   The Markkula Center is one of the most active centers on applied and practical ethics in the US and the world, and has played a special role in Silicon Valley.   The Center works with Silicon Valley companies, IT and biotech executives, doctors and hospitals, mayors and city council members, superintendents and teachers –  to explore dilemmas in business ethics, healthcare and biotechnology ethics, government ethics, and character education in the schools.  Over time, it has also worked on lawyers’ ethics, nonprofit ethics, and even university and church ethics.

The African Immigrant and Refugee Resource Center (AIRRC), San Francisco.

Entwine Global is creating capacity building programs for AIRRC in order to provide social, cultural, educational, professional and recreational service needs to African immigrants.  The African Immigrant and Refugee Resource Center (AIRRC) was established in 1972 to provide African refugees and immigrants with the employment and social services tools necessary to lead independent and productive lives.