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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 foundation, dr. Sandra hernandez is an advocate, a physician of philanthropic leader, a role model a...

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 and unannounced communities, and to bring them to a path of citizenship, and to talk in culturally com...

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 nation ~ and a city of immigrants. We are a testament to americas spirit of risk and its spirit of ...

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 participation is the goal. Well, i want to thank wonderful historic and new Funding Partners that thr...

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 different ethnicities that i just mentioned. But i want to mention a few to give them some special ...