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My work started as adoing Domestic Violence and sexual asult work all most 30 years ago. I was schooled and trained and mentored by strong women many were survivors of Domestic Violence. Many of the issues i experienced in my own life and it was only because of somebody taking the time to care for me, it was because of a strong mom and grandma that im here today and able to do as wanda said, wake up every morning grateful for the opportunity to go to work and make a dif rrnsh in the lives of young people and dhat work is only possible because of community because of the amazingstaff at larken ...

Leaders like jan morrison and so many that are here today, the honoree we have chosen is a amazing champion fighting hunger and food insecurety. Her name is maria stokes. I think the honoree for richmond is such a great example of a ordinary person who does extraordinary things every day. When i see her riding to work or the family as well, she is a amazing person and a San Francisco resident since 19 [inaudible] school edge children that go to argon elementary. She works as chunication director for project open hand, a amazing Non Profit Organization that provided over 1 million new trish ame...

It also makes it really complicated because you have in any one grant year, 50, 60 different organizations receiving grants but thats the way we do it and i think that kind of patch quilt is a good thing in San Francisco and that covers a whole lot of work in housing for example, there is tenant counseling, theres first time Home Ownership, its done a lot to support the housing programs, the hope sf x the envisioning program, we have Small Business assistance, we have child care services, so its supporting a lot of different organize sashes doing different work and i hear some of the previous ...

Are bigger yet the federal Government Cut 16 of cdbg this year and 20 of our [inaudible] fund, we had to deal with that fact because some people are not going the get their grants. What we did this last month was to take a compelling argument to the mayor and it will come to you hopefully too to backfill that lost funding, its essential to Keep Community development stable because the other option is to cut those critical grants to the ground. I would say that its a critical time to do that because were seeing widening disparities in wealth and it is a time when the federal government is givin...

Turned down. Theyre socially and economically disadvantaged organizations and i would like the see more work witching the nonprofit environment as opposed to working with the Small Business community, theres some private and Nonprofit Organizations, they collect this money under the mckinney veto act and provide transitional housing but theyre only obligated to provide it for 12 years and then they can go private and turn it into a condominium so theyre telling their president s to get on the Public Housing waiting list because they want to convert. Then you have some thats just trying to say ...