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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 immigrant community, Southeast Asian community, all of them, they want to hear how they can innovate ...

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 aspect of the San Francisco pathway to Citizenship Initiative is Civic Engagement. This component is not...

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 organizations in the publicprivate way, work with the foundations with historically supported these...

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 are today, from activating themselves in full participation. And i do want to have people of all lang...

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 city who want to hear from the chinese american community, the Southeast Asian american haunted, th...