Able to provide full after school programs, weekend activities, summer day camps and overnight camps. You name it, we have it. I started as a volunteer for rock 24 years ago. I have had the privilege when i started volunteering i was working with Elementary School kids. Now they are in their 20s and 30s. They are College Graduates with successful jobs and many worked for rock. Some donated to rock. It is an Incredible Group of people. As part of the 25 Year Anniversary campaign we are launching a campaign called stories that rock. It features short videos of al alumni and staff and people positively impacted by our work. This is the world premier of the first stories at rock video featuring a past participant named marissa. Enjoy it. I am marissa. I am 25. I went to california state and graduated with a ba. Rock camp changed my life every year. In Elementary School there was this thing called flying squirrel. It was in the middle. Two trees in the middle of the green grass right by the
One of you for supporting the warriors foundation, for supporting the chamber. Welcome to the new chase center. Congratulations to rodney fong, the new executive director. I am looking forward to the future and the work to do to make San Francisco an incredible place just like this Amazing Center you are enjoying here this morning. Thank you all so much. [applause. ] thank you very much, mayor breed, we celebrate the opening of chase center. I invite you to welcome to the stage the San Francisco chamber of commerce board chair and chief revenue officer, john gingrich. Get ready. Thank you all for being here today. Nice to see a lot of Friendly Faces in the crowd. I serve as board chair for the San Francisco chamber of commerce. I do want to say thank you to all of the sponsors and especially my former colleagues. Thank you for being the presenting sponsor today. The San Francisco chamber is excited to watch the Business Community grow throughout mission bay and here with the retail, re
Thank you for that. Partnership was organizations such as the Golden State Warriors makes stories like marrigherspossible. They are a fantastic organization. We do receive some Financial Support. It is great anal allows us to do what we do and expand our programs. The Financial Support is great. Activities get me excited. I want to share the things we have done with the warriors in the 20 plus year history. We have attended basketball games. We have had dance clinics on site. We renovated two courts and classrooms. For the old School Warriors fans we have been visits to the camps. One of my favorite is clint. 10 years ago he took us to seaworld in san diego. It is fantastic. This is a warriors game a couple years ago. You can see the smiling faces, the number ones because we believe. See what i did this. We believe the warriors despite personnel changes will make it back on top and open up the chase center. Give it up for the warriors. Basketball clinics with the warriors on site at mi
Ingress, egress, so many things we have to do. If we can do that Going Forward we can do more. We can maybe become a bigger organization to do more things. Now, rick, with the warriors there are two football teams and two baseball teams one basketball name. The golden state name is in the entire area. You were involved in the Community Coming together for this. You think of the entire bay area. Where the warriors fit in the community and the community as septs and resources it took for this building with the kid righting buyin the bike the touchstone of memories for everybody in the bay area for years and years, give me a thought how people pulled together from all different communities knowing this is the new spot. The warriors are representing the entire bay area. That is what i said all last year. Our whole organization did. We were leaving a of course, not leaving a city. Oakland is an integral part who we are and will remain that way in the future. One of the things i am most prou
We run all of this. This is a whole new this. This is a challenge to make this operate smoothly. I was worried. Last night i was like i wonder what it will sound like, the entrance and exit. Friday should be the ultimate challenge meltta metallyca and e symphony. We have to transform to your question as an organization completely. This is a whole new thing not just a Basketball Team. We are Sports Entertainment operation. We have to run the things going on, restaurants outside, ingress, egress, so many things we have to do. If we can do that Going Forward we can do more. We can maybe become a bigger organization to do more things. Now, rick, with the warriors there are two football teams and two baseball teams one basketball name. The golden state name is in the entire area. You were involved in the Community Coming together for this. You think of the entire bay area. Where the warriors fit in the community and the community as septs and resources it took for this building with the kid