Introduce the Koret Foundation family. First of all our executive director mr. Jeff, would you stand up please. [ applause ]. Hiram, also. And then the next to you, that beautiful lady, gabrielle and my niece, kim. [ applause ] thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this great milestone. I am happy to be here. St. Anthonys has a special place in my heart, because it represents the vision of my late husband, joseph koret. Joe was born in poverty. He his wish was for no one to go hungry in his beloved San Francisco community. Joe would have been so proud to support this wonderful building that will provide so much care for so many people in our city. For me, st. Anthonys also represents the three cs. Care, community, and continuity. I bring you many congratulations from all of the members of the board of directors of the Koret Foundation and our very best wishes for continued sucrose in success in the future. Thank you. [ applause ] i saw merl and larr
Can continue the miracles for everybody. Susan has been at that part of our philanthropic San Francisco lovefest for many years and with that i would like to introduce susan corette, the corette foundation, the great miracle worker. [ applause ] this is wonderful. This is really exciting. Its really important to introduce the Koret Foundation family. First of all our executive director mr. Jeff, would you stand up please. [ applause ]. Hiram, also. And then the next to you, that beautiful lady, gabrielle and my niece, kim. [ applause ] thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this great milestone. I am happy to be here. St. Anthonys has a special place in my heart, because it represents the vision of my late husband, joseph koret. Joe was born in poverty. He his wish was for no one to go hungry in his beloved San Francisco community. Joe would have been so proud to support this wonderful building that will provide so much care for so many people in our
Between mercy housing; now its mercy housing because its the sisters of mercy, but its mercy housing because that is what it is. And that is what it means to the people who benefit from it. And this collaboration with st. Anthonys. The coming together of two forces of such magnitude, of such commitment, of such deep commitment, of such values that you know that the outcome is going to be not only benefit the people who are here, but also be a model for others. This is a collaboration, as has been said between mercy housing and st. Anthonys and was example was nonprofits come together for the greater good. With their leadership and their being models, producing results of National Significance, they, most of them have been able to to impact Public Policy and i know the mayor is right on the forefront of all of this. And thank you for your great leadership, mayor lee. [ applause ] and you know that we just had a little session with the cliffs, going over the cliff, not going over the cli
They are insensitive to our world of miracles here. We love and touch each other and we know what that feels. In d. C. Its hard to gain that with the conversations that they have there, but for her leadership, but for her connections but for her introductions to the federal agencies that we need so much their attention as they are stretched wide across this country with all of the needs, she has opened up those doors for me, for countless other mayors, for representatives of our different agencies to get that chance to present our case. So that our miracles can happen for each other. So nancy, thank you very much for your wonderful, wonderful leadership. [ applause ] and then to come back here and celebrate with us on helping us turn the state on something that is going to happen that has been a miracle now, 38 million times for people in the last 60 years, father harden, that is just you and your staff. All of the volunteers, you know, the volunteers at the heart of the success of st.
Over and over again that we have a commitment to make something better. Mercy doesnt often name your buildings. Sometimes they have glorious names like 122 golden gate, which was the name of this building up to now. Its very poetic. But we really wanted to do something to commemorate the incredible contribution the Tenderloin Community and we want to name this building after vera hale, who is here on stage. This building, once its opened will be named the vera hale building. For over 20 years vera has been a tireless advocate around senior issues, around Economic Security issues. She has worked at Curry Senior Center and i have a list of the boards and commissions she has served on. I will read them to you because its a longer list i heard many in my life. Advisory council to aging and adult services, the mayors longterm care coordinating council, the San Francisco interim support task force and coalition of agencies serve the elders, and im sure will there are a hundred other that ver