EMBARCADERO INSTITUTE

The Embarcadero Institute is a 501C3 non-profit organization that publishes analysis that gives context to local policy. It does this by providing evidence of existing conditions, analyzing the potential impacts of legislation and communicating those findings. It seeks to make policy tangible, helping people understand what it means on the ground, not only for themselves and their neighbors but also for the broader community... The Embarcadero Institute is governed by a voluntary board of community leaders who are committed to providing data-driven analysis of legislation and its impacts... We work with data scientists to provide snapshots of existing conditions for cities in Silicon Valley, and trends when those trends yield interesting insights about city dynamics. Data can paint a picture of a community, but that picture can become muddied when different datasets tell different stories, so we where possible we work with government-sourced data.