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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, ...

Family has been here, at some point in your lineage, you came to this country, you came to this state, you came to San Francisco, and part of what were seeing today is we all deserve to be here. We deserve to make San Francisco and america great. Thank you very much. applause thank you, supervisor. Many of you may not know that over 35 of San Francisco Small Businesses are owned by and operated by immigrants today. Our next speaker is a real role model for many of us, a ceo of the San Francisco ...

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 organizations in the publicprivate way, work with the foundations with historically supported these efforts to bring voice and communication to hidden communities an...

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 commitment of all of our immigrant communities, their partners, to assure economic mobility, education, health care access, and, of course, that they are civickly engaged. As the mayor and supervisor chiu said, we are a...

Muni, whether it costs you more or doesnt cost you anything. How do we do all of that in a much more involved way . Education, outreach, more engaging new citizens to mentor and help other eligible immigrants navigate the citizenship application process. We think this is our next big challenge, but opportunity just beyond the work that we did which was groundwork to get people counted. And i said earlier, our diversity is not just to be tolerated. It has to be celebrated in every way, and full p...

Us. 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...