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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 dif...

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. Everyb...

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 a...

Folk behind me who represent the Funding Community that has so wonderfully stepped up. Thank you, dr. Sandra hernandez and your colleagues. I of course want to thank all the amazing nonprofit social Service Providers and immigrant rights organizations that have been part of the fabric of why im so proud of San Francisco as a city that welcomes and protects our immigrant communities. And i also want to take a moment and thank all of you. Youre taking pictures of us because i think behind us repre...

San francisco is the Innovation Capital of the world and in that way all of the different ethnicities that arrive in San Francisco of all different 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 i...

And the San Francisco foundation is extremely proud to have partnered with this group, to bring it together. We look forward to three years of learning and to reaching as many of these folks as we can, to have them become citizens, and to come to Health Commission meetings and tell the director of health and all of our other commissioners what it is they would like to see their city be. Thank you very much on behalf of the San Francisco foundation. applause thank you, dr. Hernandez. A final aspe...

Challenge for us these days, that you need in order to keep healthy . All of these kinds of issues, including input in the government, weve always wanted to improve. Well, today there is over 100,000 permanent residents in San Francisco who are not fully engaged yet in everything that they can be doing in registering their voice. And, so, we want to announce today a new initiative, its the San Francisco pathways to Citizenship Initiative. Its job, its focus is to work with all the communitybased...

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 a...

Your language capabilities so that youre able to navigate these Employment Training programs and all the other engaging programs that we have. San francisco is the Innovation Capital of the world and in that way all of the different ethnicities that arrive in San Francisco of all different 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...

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 we get so, well always feel were not representing everybody in this city. And, so, ...