Well, good morning, everybody. Thank you, adrian. I want to appreciate you, mayor lee, supervisor chiu, and really all of our Philanthropic Partners that are launching this extraordinary pathway to citizenship in San Francisco. The San Francisco foundation for over 60 years has held very central to its core mission the notion that we need to engage every citizen, every resident in order to make our democracy better. 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 ris
Foundation, dr. Sandra hernandez and tessa rivera, [speaker not understood], Senior Program officer for immigrant rights and integration, walter and alise fund, also known as the haase senior fund. Pam david, the Wallace Alexander gabode foundation, stacey ma and thomas, concerned with immigrants and refugees represented today by felicia barto, deputy director. Also present today are commissioner canali vicechair of the San Francisco immigrant rights commission, city librarian, luis herrera, [speaker not understood], and clementine of the african advocacy network. So, let me provide first of all just a little bit of background on the initiative. In 2008 while serving as city administrator, mayor ed lee created the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs, one of the first such offices in the nation. The intention was to better communicate with and engage our City Residents while providing opportunities for meaningful participation and particularly for under served and vulnerabl
Thank you, mayor lee. We would not get all these things done in San Francisco without the leadership and support of the San Francisco board of supervisors. And supervisor david chiu is a former criminal prosecutor, civil rights, and immigration attorney, technology, entrepreneur, Senate Judiciary aid, and democratic council. Hes done a lot of things in his life. Hes also talented and highly effective leader of the San Francisco board of supervisors where he has served as president since 2009. President chiu. applause thank you, and good morning, everyone. First of all, i want to join the mayor in thanking all the folk behind me who represent the Funding Community that has so wonderfully stepped up. Thank you, dr. Sandra hernandez and your colleagues. I of course want to thank all the amazing nonprofit social Service Providers and immigrant rights organizations that have been part of the fabric of why im so proud of San Francisco as a city that welcomes and protects our immigrant commun
Thank you very much for participating here today. applause thank you, mayor lee. We would not get all these things done in San Francisco without the leadership and support of the San Francisco board of supervisors. And supervisor david chiu is a former criminal prosecutor, civil rights, and immigration attorney, technology, entrepreneur, Senate Judiciary aid, and democratic council. Hes done a lot of things in his life. Hes also talented and highly effective leader of the San Francisco board of supervisors where he has served as president since 2009. President chiu. applause thank you, and good morning, everyone. First of all, i want to join the mayor in thanking all the folk behind me who represent the Funding Community that has so wonderfully stepped up. Thank you, dr. Sandra hernandez and your colleagues. I of course want to thank all the amazing nonprofit social Service Providers and immigrant rights organizations that have been part of the fabric of why im so proud of San Francisc
President since 2009. President chiu. applause thank you, and good morning, everyone. First of all, i want to join the mayor in thanking all the folk behind me who represent the Funding Community that has so wonderfully stepped up. Thank you, dr. Sandra hernandez and your colleagues. I of course want to thank all the amazing nonprofit social Service Providers and immigrant rights organizations that have been part of the fabric of why im so proud of San Francisco as a city that welcomes and protects our immigrant communities. And i also want to take a moment and thank all of you. Youre taking pictures of us because i think behind us represents the diversity of our city. But we are looking at you. If you actually looked among yourselves, this room effects the diversity of the world. San francisco, we were built by immigrants. The presence of our city is successful because of the vitality of our immigrant community. And we know the future of San Francisco rests with the future of our immi