Our ability to be able to respond to that demand a really predicated on the number of individuals that we have to serve the Business Community. The San Francisco business portal was up until this last year was being managed through Digital Services and we are not going to be doing any more Technology Enhancements to the business portal. Much of what was being planned, it will now be service through the Onestop Center at 49 south venice. Were talking about equity and the individuals that our business councillors serve. The highest percentage of who we counsel are businesses in their prestartup mode, which is very critical because this really helps the businesses know what is ahead of them so that theyre planning early in advance of what are the citys requirements, connecting them to resources, so if they have not drafted a business plan, were connecting them to one of our Economic Development organizations. To help them with that. If theres a need for access to capital and financing, we
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In your inboxes for some information about those events coming to you shortly. In the interim im so pleased to welcome my guest Douglas Murray to our event. This afternoon. Douglas is a journalist and im sure many of you if not all have read his work and the pages of the wall street journal, the National Review for a force in the spectator where he is an associate editor douglas is also an author most recently of the 2019 book the madness of crowds. And he was with us in person at the manhattan institute. I think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book, that strange death of europe. Now, douglas is a Formidable Political critic and while he is an observer of all things uk and i think us, im not sure that he knew that the subject of both his most recent book and this one were coming to play so much during this particular moment in time but they have area and its for that reason and many others that it is my pleasure to welcome you to bless to our event this af
Far more than a matter of cosmetics. For me, it describes the whole effort to bring the Natural World and the man made world into harmony, to bring order, usefulness, delight to our whole environment. And that of course only begins with trees and flowers and landscaping. Thats Lady Bird Johnson talking about beautification. She was a successful business woman and a savvy political p t partner to our president. Tonight well tell you the story of Claudia Taylor johnson, known to everyone as lady bird. Here to tell our story are two guests, Cokie Roberts, political analyst, also author, savvy mothers and ladies of liberty. B betty boyd caroli. I want to start at the beginning, 50 years ago this week. This is an administration birthed in national tragedy. What were the immediate challenges for the brandnew first couple in those first terrible days after the assassination of kennedy. Well, they were enormous. First of all, nobody knew whether there was a widespread plot, so the country was
S San Francisco has been doing a great job flattening the curve and sfds has been a big part of that. The stepsky foundation and Silver Giving Foundation at 225,000 and somaland foundation 476,000, linkedin, 146,000 and the Webb Family Foundation at 70, Golden State Warriors at 50 and walter and alysse haas fund and the Tipping Point community at 25, and the stepski foundation is 20 and i want to thank all corporate and giving foundations and individuals this is a Response Fund the ones their gave before throughout the year and this is the ones for the covid19 response. And toma bravo at 1. 1 and anonymous at 11,000, Golden State Warriors at 125 and the hellman foundation, 50,000 and palms against poverty is 28 and herbert and Gene Foundation at 25 and facebook is 20 and cohen elevators is 20 and the wells fargo 20 and google fiberton 10. Wellington management 10, the 697 and alaskas airline 5,000 and odell family and dennis wulliver kelly and these are all that have given towards are