The Southern California Symposium, the Price Center for Social Innovation’s executive education program, is an exceptional opportunity for learning, collaboration and professional growth over a short time frame. A concentrated and intense experience that will not wreak havoc on your calendar, the Symposium starts the third week of March and is finished by the first week of May. The time in between will prove unforgettable.

Applications for the 2019 cohort are due December 31, 2018.

A second iteration of the Neighborhood Data for Social Change platform launched last month in the Coachella Valley to provide local civic actors with the data they need to address the region's most pressing social challenges.

Visitors to the platform's new website (cv.myneighborhooddata.org) can explore datasets, make map queries, and read the first published data stories: " Rent-Burdened Households in the Coachella Valley" and " The Eastern Coachella Valley’s Immigrant Communities".

The zip code in which one grows up is a primary determinant of life outcomes. ​Developing successful cradle to career pathways for families and children living in low-income communities is a critical component of the Price Center’s mission. The Price Center develops and disseminates research that explores new approaches to increasing opportunity for low-income residents through education, jobs, housing, and transportation.

​This Social Innovation Summit will examine Pathways to Opportunity through the lens of research and action focused in three different areas:

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Educational Attainment | Foster Youth | Re-entry & Recidivism

Workers all over Los Angeles County are experiencing the effects of high cost of living. This data story explores how housing and cost of living are impacting workers in two of the County’s fastest growing sectors – (1) Professional, Science and Technology Services and (2) Accommodation and Food Services – and what businesses and government can do to help make Los Angeles County an affordable place to live and work. 

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Where a child grows up has a profound effect on her future outcomes in life. Inequality across places is a persistent feature of U.S. metropolitan areas. My research shows that over the past few decades, children have become more segregated by income across neighborhoods.