Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

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 middle school. You can see the numbers. I see 27. I saw the nametag here as well. Old school stuff right there. If you have a chance to work with them, they are fantastic. Finally, the strip to sea world. There is shamu. Fantastic experience. Those young people are how adults. About half have worked for rock or currently are working for rock. One of my favorite quotes is by basketball coach john would den. The true character is what a man does with no one is watching. That is true for the warriors organization. The vast majority of the time there is no cameras, no reporters, no need for media attention. They are doing this because it is the right thing to do, they know how to work with the community, it is in their dna. What you hear is true. They are a true high Class Organization and we are a proud partner. If you want to learn more about us and the work we do and watch more stories. We are on social media. Thank you. Enjoy the rest of your breakfa breakfast. [applause. ] thank you to rock and to the Warriors Foundation. A big hand one more time. [applause. ] it is time for a special announcement. The San Francisco chamber of commerce with the long standing relationship with the Golden State Warriors welcome the warriors to chase center. We are kicking off a month Long Campaign to encourage the Business Community to contribute to the foundation and utilize employer matching programs. We encourage you to visit the foundation. That is the website to donate online to enable your employer to match your donation. The company with the most donations during the month of september will have the opportunity to win 340 warriors 30 warriors ticket. The link to the donation page will be included in the email. 30 tickets get your self and be your employer involved. On the tables is a pledge card if you would like to participate in all of the things happening with the foundation. You are encouraged to do so. I am thrilled to announce this Campaign Today presenting the Community Foundation with a check for 25,000 to help the fund with the commitment to the youth in the bay area. It is our great honor. [applause. ] i want to just personally thank ever bed for coming to everybody for coming to the breakfast today. There is a program ahead. Thank you very much. I look forward to seeing you in the future. Thank you. [applause. ] thank you. We want to keep the spirit of giving going. I am honored to introduce the leaders to speaking to the social impacts of their work in San Francisco and in the bay area. Let me welcome to the stage first the moderator. Jobena is a reporter for the 7 news. She was a an anchor in louisvile kentucky. [applause. ] also on the panel it gives me great pleasure to welcome Melanie Moore Vice President of Community Relations for the Golden State Warriors. Amy wallace, Vice President at j. P. Morgan chase and company. Managing director of the technology lab. Take it away. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. Come on. There were some good pancakes on the table. Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for having me this morning. I am a reporter with abc 7 here in San Francisco. We are talking about Community Engagement through partnerships with an incredible panel. I will go down the line. This is Melanie Moore, executive director and Vice President of Community Relations Golden State Warriors. Briefly can you talk about what you do . I have a fun job. I get to work with so many of our community partners, corporate and nonprofit organizations on a range of projects from as curt talked about funding nonprofit in the community and players going out and spending time with young people, whether it is refurbishing a Basketball Court or a season of sharing gifts for families at the holidays. Our Community Relations team are at the audience at your tables make that happen. We do so much through our Corporate Partnerships. We are able to design programs to help people find employment. Chase Center Training was a great example. As we build the new arena we think about environmental sustainability. When we think about social responsibility it is beyond showing up at the school which i am not diminishing. That can be lifechanging. It is about what is the longterm impact on the community . We think about that every day. Thank you so much, amy wallace. J. P. Morgan chase. Good morning, amy. Good morning everybody. I am in charge of the grant making for the Northern California region and focus primarily in the bay area. We are really focused pretty squarely on issue of affordability. We do this in a variety of ways through the grant making and work with nonprofit partners. Around Neighborhood Revitalization Affordable Housing making sure neighborhoods are strong and thriving. We do work around financial health. This can range from everything from helping a family establish an Emergency Savings account to working with High School Students around their own Financial Planning so when they graduate from college they are not overly burdened with debt. We do a lot of work in job training so helping local residents have the skills they need for jobs today and jobs five and 10 years from now as our economy changes. We also do a lot around Small Business assistance through programs like the entrepreneurs of color fund which is designed to help local Small Businesses start, stay and grow right here in San Francisco. We really try to do all of this as melanie said in partnership with other stakeholders, with the community and with nonprofits. Thank you, amy. Now mary hamilton, manager director. Good morning. Good morning. I am excited to be here. I lead our labs for the americas. That is the research and development organization. We are responsible for identifying the next wave of Technology Trends to be impacting our clients, business, partners, society, and figuring out how to bring them to life. I get to work with Great Technology like artificial intelligence, robotics. It is a responsibility that comes with that. We think about how to use that technology. We have tech for good which is thinking how to apply that in new ways to been fit society. Thinking about the ethics how we use that technology. I lead our lomsa lom lomSan Francisco lab. It is part of the community to think about the new skill that we are going to grow and think about that through generations and apply that locally as part of the community. Thank you so much. This first question is for the entire panel. You discussed what your organization focused on. What are you finding to be the Biggest Challenges you face in this field . Thanks for the question. It is always top of mind to think very much about the people in the community that are the beneficiaries of the work that we do. It is easy to look around to see the challenges. We have income inequality and housing issues, transportation challenges. People commuting long hours. This affects young people. They are working harder than ever to get an education. We want the bay area to be a place to find a great job. Thinking about Young Persons development, there are some challenges that are natural. Curt talked about the Youth Development work. Young people have to have a sense of belonging and attach to a teacher or community organization. They have to be offered the opportunity to develop mastery in mathematics or dance or theater arts. That is character building to help them become the person that they are. Access. I think so many on,s we work with are trying to help young people as they grow into young adults get access to opportunities they might not otherwise find. Those seem to be challenges for any young person. In the bay area we have challenges we need to address collectively with government and nonprofit and Corporate Partners to make this a place where everyone can thrive. As i said, obviously, affordability is a major challenge for us in the region. That is not only seen in housing afford built which we think about and do work in. It also impacts Small Businesses and nonprofits ability to serve the communities that they need to. We are spending a lot of time working on nonprofit capacity building, also Small Business assistance as i said to really make sure that our businesses, our nonprofits and families are able to stay in the neighborhood to keep it diverse and vibrant and have access to all of the sort of resources that they need. I think addressing those challenges is key to us. The other challenge that we have is really coming together around partnership. This is a challenge and opportunity. A great example of this for us has been a Partnership Around chase Center Training. We were able to partner with the warriors, our colleagues in the city and Nonprofit Sector with labor and contractors to really put together a Training Program to help local residents have access to the skills they need, not just to help build the building but to launch a career in the construction field so they can stay in neighborhoods in San Francisco as we address afford built challenges. Thinking about this in a holistic way is a challenge but gives us a great opportunity for impact. I will take it from the technology angel. Obviously, we are living in unprecedented times in terms of technology advancement. I think if we think about how that affects our community. Wwe are the center of innovation in silicone valley, in San Francisco especially. The world is watching what we are doing. You know, we have to start at home and think what kinds of programs can we do to Leverage Technology and grow skills, to create access. There are a number of programs that we are doing programicly but our employees are applying their own skills to do things in a grassroots roll tear way. Volunteer way. Addressing elementary and middle school and bringing math skills along with emotional skills andd applying to the Basketball Court tolert the critical to learn the critical skills. It is thinking across generations. What about thinking about homelessness in the bay area as well . We are working with back on your feet to take a different approach to homelessness where we have proven that by using a running base model to build up selfesteem and confidence to help people find a new way to jobs and homes and new lives. That is a program we are proud of. There is the grassroots thing we can use our own skills. When the fires hatc happened wed volunteers that went to help. They mobilized forces to be on the ground working and applying consulting skills to make that better to bring to the next recovery we need to go through. There is a Great Program like our researchers going out there to teach preschoolers how to do robotics to get them excited about their next generation skills. There is so much to do to bring that to the next generation. I am looking forward to tackling the challenges and what they will present in the year ahead and this exciting chapter. Can you please give our panelists a round of applause. Thank you for having us. We have a special guest coming to the stage. We will make way for her. A round of applause for the panelists. Thank you so much. It is my honor to welcome the chief champion of the city and number one fan of Golden State Warriors basketball. The San Francisco mayor london breed. [applause. ] mayor breed good morning everybody. Are we all recovering from Stevie Wonder last night . Those who were here, i didnt see a loud applause i assume some of you werent able to make it. It was absolutely amazing. I really want to thank the warriors just for opening up this incredible chase center in style. You know, yesterday when we cut the ribbon to open chase center, we really closed a chapter on this new mission bay community. This community of families, people, businesses, u. C. S. F. , this is absolutely becoming an incredible neighborhood to live in and work in and thrive in. The warriors being here is really icing on the cake. I am so excited about the future of our city because of what this has done for our Business Community, our economy, job growth. We also know that there are so many more challenges we have to overcome. I am going to look to the business communities in the next couple years to help us address what we know are serious challenges. Yes, today is a celebration. Today is about supporting the Warriors Foundation and the work that they do to bridge the gap between the Business Community and neighborhoods throughout San Francisco. In fact, i am really proud what they have already done in refurbishing 70 courts throughout the bay including 15 courts right here in San Francisco. There is more work they will do to make critical investments in improving the lives around San Francisco. There is still work to be done. In fact, after i leave the breakfast this morning, i am headed over to the south of the Market Community to make an announcement about a number of investments we will be making to address what we know is the biggest crisis we face. Yes, homelessness, but also mental illness. It is a very complex issue that we are facing here in our city that we need to address. We in this past budget inn vested over 53 million in addressing Behavioral Health through out San Francisco. We made a critical additional 100 Million Investment in homeless services. It is not just that we need to invest these dollars. We need to make sure that they are effectively delivering on the promises they make to help people that we know who are struggling on our streets, to have a better city, to have a better economy, we have to get at the root cause of these issues to make sure that we are making the changes so that they are changes that we can see and people every single day. I want to take this opportunity to express that the work also including making San Francisco more affordable, making sure that as the jobs increase, as the amazing chase center has opened and an you will of these other incredible opportunities in mission bay exist that we build more housing for people to live here and be able to afford to live here. This fall we have a 600 million Affordable Housing bond that wont raise property taxes so i am sure that should be appealing to so many voters throughout San Francisco. I hope the Business Community would rally around thistic initiative. There is something for everyone low income residents, educators, seniors and middle income families. We have to look at how we are at a city just like we envision mission bay 10, 15 years ago. What we have to think about is what is San Francisco going to look like 10, 15 years from now