January 19, 2021 By JB Holston, CEO of the Greater Washington Partnership Happy Inauguration Day from battened-down DC! Here at the Partnership, we are encouraged by the Biden Administration’s introduction of their new Science team last week, and by the elevation of the Chief Science Advisor to a Cabinet position…

December 14, 2020 By JB Holston, CEO of the Greater Washington Partnership In sum… Vaccines will take 6–12 months to roll out to cover bulk of U.S. population. Healthy kids, including college age, will be toward/at the end of that roll-out. …

December 4, 2020 By JB Holston, CEO of the Greater Washington Partnership Hi friends: another busy week as GWP’s continues to use its convening power and voice to catalyze solutions to scale that can help the Region re-open more quickly and safely, and accelerate back toward inclusive growth. A number…

The Capital Region is crisscrossed by a series of social, economic, and geographic boundaries. While its footprint — stretching from Richmond, through Washington, DC, and over to Baltimore — has the third-largest economy in the United States and the high aggregate education attainment rates and income levels you might expect…

November 20, 2020 By JB Holston, CEO of the Greater Washington Partnership Closing to Re-opening to Inclusive Recovery to Inclusive Growth Before we start — support a frontline healthcare worker this week. This week’s context feels like last week’s, only more so: continued political chaos and division at the national…

November 13, 2020 By JB Holston, CEO of the Greater Washington Partnership This is the first in what will be a weekly snapshot of what we’ve learned this week related to the Capital Region’s inclusive recovery and growth. Pandemic What a terrible, extraordinary week to launch our FFAST Forward update! Case…

While employers, by-and-large, remain uncertain about the percent of their workforce that will continue to permanently telework, the Snapshot shows full-time telework positions are likely to increase which could have big impacts on our region’s economy and future growth. — On September 14, 2020, the Greater Washington Partnership released the Capital COVID-19 Snapshot (“Snapshot”), capturing insights from more than 430 unique employers taking part throughout the Capital Region of Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond that collectively employ over 275,000 residents. The Snapshot found that, on average, close to 20 percent of…

In February 2020, the Capital CoLAB, an initiative of the Greater Washington Partnership, partnered with McKinsey & Company on a tech talent market diagnostic of the Capital Region. …

The world feels like it is on fire. Between a pandemic ravaging our economy and the boiling-over fury of centuries of systemic racial injustice that have devastated our communities of color, sources of hope and inspiration can be hard to find. As we look at the hard work that lies…