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
Dr. Sandra hernandez is an advocate, a physician of philanthropic leader, a role model and definitely a ground breaker ~. Shes the former director of San Francisco department of Public Health and nationally renowned expert on health care and nonprofit sustainability. Dr. Hernandez. applause 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 commitm
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 technology with everyone else and how they can improve lives ~. Technology is there for our use and one of the reasons we support it is its got to improve our lives for everybody. You cannot improve ones life if youre not communicating with people that speak spanish only. Or in the shadows. This is why were making this announcement. Were also making a timely announcement and adrian is very strategic on this because we are having a National Conversation about immigration. We have to pass comprehensive Immigration Reform in this country. Senate
Mayors in iowa, in indiana, in alabama and in florida, saying that theres a lot for immigrants to contribute to this country. We also have to have the talent come here as well. A lot of Technology Companies are reaching out to talent across the world and they need that talent to stay here to build the companies so that more jobs can get created. Thats part of the immigration bill along with family, along with pathways to citizenship for those that are technically not legally here. How do you spend the 1. 2 million on this program . Thank you. Thats over a threeyear period and half of that money is coming from the foundations that are participating. Thats why we wanted to officially thank them. The other half will come from the city general fund through the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs that adrian has. And she will be working with all the nonprofits to fund them appropriately for the activities that will get people the training, the orientation, the classes, but also
Understood] Community Resource center. As well as the african advocacy network, the arab resource organizing center, myob which 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 languages and all heritages telling us how they want our parks to be managed, how they want community safety, how they want transportation to be had, all these things everybody else gets to do, and they weigh in pretty heavily. But i want full participation of that. And until