Dr. Sandra hernandez is an advocate, a physician of philanthropic leader, a role model and definitely a ground breaker ~. Shes the former director of San Francisco department of Public Health and nationally renowned expert on health care and nonprofit sustainability. Dr. Hernandez. applause well, good morning, everybody. Thank you, adrian. I want to appreciate you, mayor lee, supervisor chiu, and really all of our Philanthropic Partners that are launching this extraordinary pathway to citizenship in San Francisco. The San Francisco foundation for over 60 years has held very central to its core mission the notion that we need to engage every citizen, every resident in order to make our democracy better. And all of the philanthropic organizations that are part of this Pathway Initiative likewise believe that our democracy is better when everybody is included in it. The San Francisco foundation is proud to be a leader and investor in this necessary work, bringing together the deep commitm
Backgrounds need to be part of this innovation, because innovation is not about just one particular group of people. Its about everybody participating. And you should hear some of the tech kids that are in the city who want to hear from the chinese american community, the Southeast Asian american haunted, the african immigrant community, the latino immigrant community, Southeast Asian community, all of them, they want to hear how they can innovate technology with everyone else and how they can improve lives ~. Technology is there for our use and one of the reasons we support it is its got to improve our lives for everybody. You cannot improve ones life if youre not communicating with people that speak spanish only. Or in the shadows. This is why were making this announcement. Were also making a timely announcement and adrian is very strategic on this because we are having a National Conversation about immigration. We have to pass comprehensive Immigration Reform in this country. Senate
The [speaker not understood] foundation, the haase junior and senior foundations, as well as the Asian Pacific fund amongst many other foundations that are assisting us. This is a 1. 2 Million Initiative over the next three years with the city providing about half of the funding and the foundations stepping up with the other half. But the real work is going to be done at the community level. The Community Organizations that are going to be working with us on numerous and they reflect all the different ethnicities that i just mentioned. But i want to mention a few to give them some special thank you because theyre stepping beyond what theyve traditionally done and going into the mold of going beyond just the citizenship count and now into services into this new orientation and training, and that is [speaker not understood] for the elderly, one of the lead agency. Thank you, annie, for leading that. Youve been a wonderful collaborater with us. The asian caucus, Asian Pacific islander out
Understood] Community Resource center. As well as the african advocacy network, the arab resource organizing center, myob which is the [speaker not understood], the Southeast Asian community center, [speaker not understood] media, of course San Francisco immigrant rights commission. Well, ive often said in many speeches that our immigrant population is important. Well, over a third of our population are immigrants and we acknowledge that. But i dont just want to say it as an announcement. Everybody knows that. What we want is full participation. We want people to not be afraid or not be meeting as many barriers as they are today, from activating themselves in full participation. And i do want to have people of all languages and all heritages telling us how they want our parks to be managed, how they want community safety, how they want transportation to be had, all these things everybody else gets to do, and they weigh in pretty heavily. But i want full participation of that. And until
Are, but we want to get more out of our citizens than just living and enjoying life here. We have to participate in the fullest way and this is whats going to make our city even more successful. Thank you very much for participating here today. applause thank you, mayor lee. We would not get all these things done in San Francisco without the leadership and support of the San Francisco board of supervisors. And supervisor david chiu is a former criminal prosecutor, civil rights, and immigration attorney, technology, entrepreneur, Senate Judiciary aid, and democratic council. Hes done a lot of things in his life. Hes also talented and highly effective leader of the San Francisco board of supervisors where he has served as president since 2009. President chiu. applause thank you, and good morning, everyone. First of all, i want to join the mayor in thanking all the folk behind me who represent the Funding Community that has so wonderfully stepped up. Thank you, dr. Sandra hernandez and yo