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 competent ways what the benefits of full citizen participation are, and there are many. If you are becoming a citizen or if you become a citizen, youre going to have a lot more fuller rights. For one thing, you get to vote in San Francisco. You get to vote in america. And that voting right is so precious. And we saw just a month ago or less than a month ago how we revisited how valuable that Voting R
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 innovation. And the heart of every immigrant is a risk taker, a bold and courageous person who has risked everything to make a better life for themselves, but also to make a better life for all of their neighbors and communities in which they live ~. Like mayor lee and the supervisor, im a proud daughter of american immigrants. They came to this country with odds stacked against them to build a Be
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 through their leadership and generosity in this initiative, certainly Sandra Hernandez and the San Francisco foundation have been longtime partners. Shes been so helpful in many other things and many of you know shes helping me on hope s. F. , provide housing opportunities for some of our worst dilapidated housing. Now shes also again stepped up with additional partners. And i want to just signal to
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 thank you because theyre stepping beyond what theyve traditionally done and going into the mold of going beyond just the citizenship count and now into services into this new orientation and training, and that is [speaker not understood] for the elderly, one of the lead agency. Thank you, annie, for leading that. Youve been a wonderful collaborater with us. The asian caucus, Asian Pacific islander
It is full of intrigue and turmoil and lots of fingerpointing. Who wrote this mustread . None other than former treasury secretary tim geithner. Really, he did. In his new book appropriately titled stress test, geithner recounts the financial crisis and the white houses response to it. Geithner also writes about the anxiety caused over one Major Administration decision. Whether or not president obama should appoint Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Protection finance bureau. Though the bureau was her brainchild, everyone in the room knew she had no chance of being confirmed. So president obama ultimately chose to do this in 2010 secretary geithner and i both agree that elizabeth is the best person to stand this agency up. She was the architect behind the idea for a consumer watchdog. So it only makes sense that she should be the architect working with secretary of the treasury geithner in standing up the agency. Did you hear what the president said . Instead of nominating the agenc