It is a prime example of what investment in our Public Schools can look like. Four years ago, mark benniof, along with the mayors and superintendents from oakland and San Francisco, stood on this very same yard to celebrate the third year of the sales force grant. At that time, there was success to celebrate. Wifi in every middle school, computers and ipads available to every school, the established of the principals innovation fund. We may not have appreciated how much more celebrating there was to come. To date, weve now seen over 40 million invested in the students of San Francisco unified School Districts. [ cheering and applause ]. And 20 million invested in the students at oakland unified. [ cheering and applause ]. This has had incredible results in math, Computer Science, and College Readiness throughout both of these great cities. What i want to share with you today is what this means for presidio and what i observed seeing these transformations. Not just to our physical environments but to our students lives. Here is an example of what our community has seen since 2013. Increased Student Access to and interest in coding and robotics. Teachers and students collaborating in online environments in every classroom in our school. In addition to our beautiful new space, our community enjoys partnering directly with sales force volunteers who have supported our teachers throughout the school in creating welcoming environments for learning. We know that our students thrive when we can surround them with the support of everyone in the community, from teachers to volunteers to Corporate Partners to parents. Id now like to personally thank and introduce mark benniof coc. E. O. And chairman of sales force who has championed this great, incredible, amazing work for our students. [ cheering and applause ]. Thank you so much for coming today. Its a gorgeous day and always the hottest day when we do these announcements. I just want to say you have an amazing team up hear that i want to call out. We have principal dunbar. Thank you for everything youre doing. [ cheering and applause ]. And we have two of our fabulous mayors here in San Francisco and oakland, mayor breed and mayor shaw. Thank you. [ cheering and applause ]. And we have our amazing team here of our superintendents kyle and vincent, thank you for everything that youre doing. [ applause ]. We have anthony from the Sales Force Foundation too. Thank you, ebony. [ cheering and applause ]. Doing work like this really does take a team. One member of our team is not up here and were thinking a lot about him. That is ed lee. It was really mayor lee that had the vision that we felt so strongly about to work on the 12 middle schools. That was seven years ago and now we can see today here is this incredible manifestation of our middle schools getting rebooted and its in his memory that were doing this work. Lets remember him and lets say thank you as well to all of you for being here. Thank you for your support of our kids. Thank you to the kids also. So thank you guys for coming here. [ cheering and applause ]. One thing about doing this is the kids are always like, this is boring, when is it over . Its going to get worse before it gets better. [ laughter ]. I apologize. No, its okay . Youre interested in this . All right. All right. Then lets do it. Thank you, principal dunbar for welcoming us to this beautiful Presidio Middle School and to you and all the staff at presidio that make a difference for our kids. Thanks to our great partners and all of our leaders and great principals here. If youre a principal in San Francisco or oakland, would you just stand up and be recognized. [ cheering and applause ]. You know, these principals who are on the frontlines every single day in these schools and with these kids doing this leadership work. They have our best hopes with them. As part of our program, as our principal innovation program, gets 100,000 a year over the last seven years to do what they think they need to do for their schools. I admire their creativity and desire to improve the education of each school, but i just want to thank them for their hard work and dedication to the schools. Its so powerful. And i also want to thank the kids. Thank you for all of your hard work too and everything youre doing to have a great education. Because ill tell you, the best ideas for our schools come from our kids. As weve been working with the schools, of course we have ideas and our visions and we remember when we were in school or when we were in middle school, but what it means to be in middle school today is different than what i was when i was in middle school. Thank you to you guys for keeping us in touch with whats important and using your voices and also speaking your truth and saying what you really want for your school. Its the kids actually before you who have graduated and over there at George Washington high school who said that they wanted a new playground, that that was very important to them. You can thank them because they used their voices and said thats what they wanted. Thats why were here very much today. Keep in mind as you go forward that we want to hear from you, what youre doing. Were all here because of you. Were all here because we believe in each and every one of you. We believe in your future and we believe that you are going to create an amazing future. Weve had our chance. Our chance is over. [ laughter ]. Now its your chance. So were looking for you to be the leaders and to take us forward and hope fulfully. Im here as your neighbor, not just a c. E. O. When it comes to our Public Schools, a lot of people say they want to help but they dont know how to. Well, a few years ago ago, some of you heard this story before, i came over here, walked through the door, and i said to the principal, how can i help . What can i do . Thats a message for each and every one of us. The principal is the local c. O. Of that school. All we have to do is knock on that door and say, how can we help you . Every c. O. Can adopt a Public School. Every company can adopt a district. Every one of us can do something. I think that that is what is so powerful. Ultimately, its the connection with the principal thats so important the more work that weve done in the Public Schools, we just get reminded of that over and over again. In my mind, i always say how do i make presidio the best school on the planet . Each of us wants the best for our kids and make these the best schools that we can. So often its the principal that knows how to make that happen. Thank you to our principals. Thank you for what youre doing. This has been an amazing process for me. As ive been working on Presidio Middle School, ive had a lot of friends who have gone through this school and i didnt know that when i started the process. Ill tell them this story. Ive adopted this school and this is what were doing and so forth. Different friends of mine have said, i have went there, did you know i went there, one of our Board Members went there. The amazing thing happened is my mom came to me and said she was here for one year. [ laughter ]. Isnt that amazing . So my mom was here for one year. I dont know how she did that. I dont even know how that happened, but luckily i got some kudos from my mom when i said were working on Presidio Middle School. So we so stronger believe at sales force that were here for all of our stakeholders, not just the shareholders. Were here to serve communities, Public Schools, everyone who is part of San Francisco, oakland, or anywhere were doing business. Were thinking about the bigger picture. That is how we guide our companys management and our leadership. This is part of our mission. Thats who we are at sales force. Thats very much why for the last seven years sales force has forged really an unprecedented collaboration with the School Districts of San Francisco and oakland. We are happy to be their largest b benefactors to support them. Our journey has only started. We are at the beginning of what we can do with the schools. We are committed to the long term for our schools. We are there for our districts and for all of you. Its why we adopt Public Schools at sales force, 34 of them in the bay area. 100 around the world that have the same spotlight on them that presidio does. Here we have a commitment that every one of our Senior Vice President s at sales force has a adopt a Public School. Its part of their responsibility. This school is my school, so they lucked out. [ laughter ]. But a lot of the schools have the same level of attention and support. Our colleagues who i want to thank and who are here have given 4 million hours in volunteerism since we started the company. If youre a sales force employee, raise your hand so i can thank you. [ applause ]. Ill tell you, these results, its really working. We monitor if were doing the right things. We see these incredible results for San Francisco and oakland. For fulltime teachers for math and technology. A surge of kids who are enrolled in stem and Computer Science. More young women and more students of color. Higher attendance rates. Higher math scores. Higher grades. You guys all have to get higher grades now, isnt that good news . Thats what were expecting you to be in school more and have higher grades because of this. This year were going to give another 17. 2 million to San Francisco and oakland Public Schools. Incredible. [ applause ]. Im excited that weve given more than 67 million to these local schools. Congratulations to you. We are well on our way to giving 100 million to local San Francisco and oakland Public Schools. I hope that is just the beginning. [ applause ]. You know, i mentioned mayor lee and mayor lee is no longer with us, but our Work Together today is an homage to his life and legacy. We see the results of the partnership right here at presidio. When i adopted this school, i asked the students, what do you want . And they said, we want more fun. I said, well, what does more fun mean . Well, we want more fun at school. What does that mean . We want more computers, better networking, faster networks, better, faster wifi. And we want to have a better playground too. Is this a better playground . Yes. Did you like the prison yard that we had for you here before . No. We thought it was designed by one of the best prison yard design groups. You voted to change it, so we did. Where is ron who designed the playground . Right over here, ron. [ cheering and applause ] thank you, ron. Because when the kids said we wanted a new playground, we hired ron. He is one of the top playground designers in the world. Hes done a lot of amazing things. He came over here and he said, my vision of a School Playground is just a big pile of dirt that kids can play in and create whatever they want, that i admire the creativity of kids. And i thought maybe that wasnt going to go over very well. But ron is still after that idea. Then we came up with a huge vision for what the playground could be. Then the kids who were here before you said we dont like that. Thats not a very good idea. We said, fine, why dont we Work Together. So we created a class where those kids could work with us and ron. For a year they designed the playground you now have. So this playground is designed by the students of the middle school. That is pretty cool. If youre liking it and feeling like they made the right decisions, you should really congratulate them. If you dont like the decisions they made, theyre right over there at George Washington, and you can go talk to them about it. With a help of a grant at sales force, we teamed up with the schools Security Guard to start a new book club. Some of the students in the club were able to attend a book event with the author angie thomas. [ applause ]. Im trying to give you inspiration that everyone here can adopt a Public School. To walk down a few blocks from your house just like i did. To knock on the door of the principal just like i did and let that journey unfold for you. Its very exciting. The most important thing is to listen to the kids because they have the answers. They represent the future of our world. Thats why we do this work, so that they have the education they need to be successful in the future and to take care of us because were getting old. Were going to need you to take care of us. Thank you very much, all of you. Thanks to all of you for being here. Were so grateful to everyone. Thank you. [ applause ]. Mayor breed im next. Thanks to sales force and mark beniof and all the work that you have done to change lives in San Francisco. Whats so amazing about sales force and their incredible leader, mark, is that Public Service is embedded in what this Company Stands for. Its not providing software only, which is a great resource to have, but its making sure that we are all doing our part to give back and support our surrounding community. Im so proud youre a native san franciscan. We appreciate all you have done and will continue to do to improve the lives of all san franciscans. Thank you so much, mark. [ applause ]]. Mayor breed ive got to say mayor shaf thinks it is San Francisco and is surprised that the rich man is shining bright with the sun. Every now and then the sun shines on the west side of San Francisco. I cant help but go back to my time i spent in San Francisco. I wasnt probably as well behaved as some of the kids are here today. In middle school, i was a handful. In fact, id always have to go to our girls Counselors Office and say it wasnt me this time. The thing about the teachers and principal, they never gave up on me. They supported, encouraged, listened to me. School was my sanctuary. Coming from a community i lived in public housing. There was a lot of challenges in my community. I was so blessed to have incredible teachers, counselors and principals. I played french horn at franklin ben and i wasnt that bad at it. The opportunity to be a part of an Incredible Community was what inspired me to want to also give back. Because i wanted to make sure that every young person in this city had an opportunity to succeed and to do whatever they want to do in life. There are people who invested in me at a time when i didnt understand what it meant to support the efforts and the work that i was doing in school. Now i get it. They were preparing me for a better future. That is our responsibility. It is a responsibility that i dont take lightly. Sales force has been at the forefront of really investing, but also Holding Others accountable to do more to invest in our young people. We have the resources right here in San Francisco. There was a real disconnect between my community and what was happening downtown in the financial district. A real disconnect between all the possibilities that existed in this city. Its why i started opportunities for all, to make sure that every High School Student has access to a paid internship. I know sales force provides incredible internship opportunities so these young people can learn firsthand what happens in the world of finance, technology, or any industry they choose to be a part of. Whether they want to take over when mark retires in a couple of years. [ laughter ]. Mayor breed he says you have to take care of him on top of taking his job. Whether i mean, im term limit out eventually. Were going to need new mayors, councilors, principals. Were going to need the next generation to not only take over the world in all these amazing positions, but were also going to need you to save our planet. There is a lot of work to be done and it starts right here, making sure that no child is left behind, no matter their financial circumstances, no matter if they were raised like i was by my grandmother in public housing, no matter where they come from in the four corners of this city, we want to make sure that we invest in our young people and that they have successful. Thats what today is about. Yes, it is a significant contribution, larger than any weve received in the city, but its a personal commitment from mark beniof and sales force, many of our officials and others, to do better, to make sure we are taking care of our young people every single day. It matters. Its the difference between what happened in my family. I became mayor and, sadly, my brother is still incarcerated. I lost a sister to a drug overdose. This is the same family, the same community. What a difference it makes when you make the right investment. So lets make sure that we listen to what mark is talking about. All of the companies out there in San Francisco, were coming for you so that you can take care of our kids and our future. [ cheering and applause ]. Mayor breed we all have to start taking responsibility for everybody elses kids too. Thats what today is about. I want to make sure that ten years from now that these young people are prepared for the future, theyre prepared to take over our jobs. I can tell by the look in their eyes that theyre going to do just that. So today is