MFG Day Resources

BAUM is committed to supporting Bay Area MFG Day activities for 2019 by helping our partner communities create a strong MFG Day presence: both with our “Manufacturing the Dream” storytelling campaign and by providing support for creating community-based MFG Day events. Here are some resources to help BAUM Communities and others create successful MFG Day activities for your community.

REPORTS AND INFOGRAPHICS

The Initiative began with a the first coordinated effort to collect direct data from manufacturers in the four largest cities in the Bay Area: San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, and Fremont, on the topics of workforce, business practices, supply chain connections, real estate challenges, and most importantly, to uncover the opportunities for Bay Area cities to collaborate. In 2017, we partnered with JLL to publish Bay Area Manufacturing is Here to Stay, an infographic that gives an overview of manufacturing in the entire nine-county Bay Area.

MANUFACTURING TOOLKITS FOR CITIES

These toolkits are how-to-guides. They are meant to give city staff, policy makers, and partner organizations concrete tools and strategies to support manufacturers on two topics. The first toolkit covers Manufacturing Promotion and Engagement and the strategies in it can be used to increase interest and excitement around manufacturing. The second focuses on Industrial Real Estate and the strategies strategies it describes can be used to grow industrial real estate, protect it, and keep places to make affordable.

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

The Bay Area Urban Manufacturing Initiative is committed to creating resources to help our members address pressing industrial-related activities in their communities.

Cannabis Production

In 2016 the Initiative collaborated with the Urban Manufacturing Alliance to create a webinar titled How to Balance Cannabis Production Within Your Industrial Community at the request of our partner cities. The webinar featured Tyler Bump, a Senior Economic Planner for the City of Portland, and Jill Jennings Golich, Deputy Director of Community Planning and Development at the City and County of Denver and David Mendoza, a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Policy and Innovation at the Seattle Mayor’s Office.