Of your early day. It is a pleasure to welcome you to the chase center. I am scott bud man, technology and Business Reporter for nbc news in the bay area. I am honored to be your master of ceremonies today. I am a native of east oakland a warrior fan my whole life. Can you believe this building . This is amazing. The team has come a long way and this building is going to do a lot of amazing things. We are here to celebrate the openings of chase center, the new home of the Golden State Warriors. This will be a one of a kind destination to take in championship basketball and concerts. Both members of the community and around the world will take in these amazing, amazing acts. We are fortunate today to get an inside look at this awesome arena and hear how it will benefit sports and entertainment. We will also hear how the Warriors Community foundation and generation thrive are working to Nation Mission bay, San Francisco and the bay area equitable for everyone. Thank you for joining us and i look forward to engaging you. It is my pleasure to kick things off by brings to the stage the San Francisco chamber of commerce president and c. E. O. Mr. Rodney fong. Hello everybody. Thank you so much for coming to the San Francisco chamber of commerce breakfast here at chase center, home of Golden State Warriors. Look at this arena. I am in awe coming down here. For those who dont know me i am the president and c. E. O. Of the San Francisco chamber of commerce, a proud fourth generation san franciscan. I have zoned a business and sat on the port and Planning Commission in San Francisco. I want to as you can tell i am passionate about San Francisco. I want to tell you about a story that happened as we watched chase center rise up. Six and a half years ago which my son andrew reminded me of. I got a phone call from may or ed lee who invited me to breakfast. They pitched the area about building the arena in the hometown. This being an arena for San Francisco to enjoy, to use, to be a place of gathering. I am sured lee would be proud if they were here. We witnessed mission bay come up. The sports and Entertainment Complex will be a focal point with retail, housing, Public Transit and opportunity for Small Businesses to thrive in mission bay. It is the beginning of Small Business here. I am delighted to have so many of the public and private sectors. The Golden State Warriors will share what is happening on the stage. The Warriors Community foundation this past season donated 1. 5 million in grant money in a single year to 49 separate organizations working to approve educational equality. We will have a chance to hear from them. I want to thank two Board Members who helped us. Jennifer, the chief Financial Officer with the warriors and our chief revenue officer. Please give them a hand. [applause. ] it takes dedication of Board Members and folks to help make events like this happen. I want to ask our Board Members of the chamber of commerce and the staff to please stand up to be recognized. [applause. ] of course, we have many members of our city family here that had a hand in building chase center. I want to thank them. Supervisor walton is here, supervisor mandelman, Catherine Stefani thank you and from the state board of equalization thank you for being here. Please give them a hand for all of their service in San Francisco. [applause. ] in 2020 next year will mark the 170th anniversary of the chamb chambers of commerce. That is right 170 years beginning in 1850 during the gold rush. The chamber was the champion for entrepreneurs from supporting the railroad we have a long history of championing initiatives to make San Francisco a global planned mark. I in landmark we are working to advocate for all members of the chamber, large and small. Now more than ever the Business Community needs to come together. It needs to come together to fight for issues which impede our business creativity and ingenuity. Creativity is the secret sauce of San Francisco. I would like to thank our presenting sponsors. Give them a big hand. Our official sponsors chase center and the Golden State Warriors. Thank you very much. [applause. ] our decor sponsor idea events and rentals. [applause. ] catering sponsor for serving the great breakfast today. [applause. ] and a very important shout out to j. P. Morgan chase for a partner with the warriors and the San Francisco chamber of commerce. [applause. ] our media sponsors, the San Francisco chronicle and the San Francisco business times. [applause. ] and our allstar partners and sponsors and of course our champ sponsors. Thank you all very much. Without you this could not happen. [applause. ] at this time i would like to introduce somebody important. The executive director of Warriors Committee and Vice President of Golden State Warriors. She is joining after 25 Years Experience in leading profit and nonprofit organizations to promote youth, Community Development and please help me welcome Melanie Moore. [applause. ] good morning everybody. Welcome to our new home. We want this to be your home as well for many, many years to come. We are all about creating unforgettable experiences. As our first public event we hope today is unforgettable for all of you for great reasons. I am here to tell you a little bit about what we do in terms of Community Impact. You are going to hear more about that later on the panel. First i want to let you know how i found my way to the warriors family. I grew up on the gulf coast and came here for graduate school and i have been a proud bay resident for 28 years, 25 of those in San Francisco. I did graduate work working with young people at mission high and i had the great opportunity to evaluate nonprofit organizations that served young people on both sides of the bay for many, many years, and worked with so many of the organizations that the Warriors Foundation actually makes grants to. In working with the Alameda County government for the board of supervisors when i saw the opportunity to come home and do work with the Nonprofit Foundation funded by the Warriors Foundation doing incredible work to help our young people to attain opportunity and success it was a nobrainer to grab hold of this opportunity. This video will highlight the Community Impact work including the Foundation Grant making stretching beyond to Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives like the Chase Center Training program or the math program. We do so much work in Alameda County in san jose and to the north bay. We want to show you about that right now. I want to say reading is fun. One, two, three. Reading is fun. Warm it up. Satisfy, three, two, one. We have friends at the warriors who help us to help kids to get kids out to a game, great promotional opportunities in the arena. Our Education Department and social Rec Department have received a makeover thanks to the generosity of the Golden State Warriors. Welcome. Do you like that one . You want to try it . One, two, three. I will see you at the game. It is so open and warm and welcoming to us. He will remember this day for the rest of his life. There you go. One, two, three. I am chef vicky shaw. Learn about nutrition, reading labels, what food groups go together. Carrots are good for you. applause it is now migrat my my hoo introduce the executive director. Curt has been the executive director of rock, an Incredible Program for young people for 16 years now. It is hard to believe because i think he is probably only 24, but he is a professional helping young people live their best lives, achieve academic success and reach for opportunities that might not otherwise be available to them. One thing you might not know about curt. He started his career in the business sector and used to work for anderson consulting. This is one of your own. Curt is actually quite a renowned singer and song writer. You may have seen him not if in the nonprofit role but in a music club. Curt is going to tell us about one of the nonprofit programs the Warriors Program has supported for many years. Please welcome curt. Good morning, everyone. Let me hear good morning back. Good morning, everyone. All right. I am the executive director of San Francisco nonprofit real options for city kids, rock for short. Thank you to the chamber and warriors. It is exciting to be here. It is very relevant and the timing is perfect. This week marks the start of our 25 years of serving children in San Francisco. Thanks for that. [applause. ] we serve a community in San Francisco cause visitation valley. A lot of people have never heard of the neighborhood. We have our share of violence and it is low income and challenging for kids to grow up there. We also have a lot of great families who are working multiple jobs trying to raise their kids, a lot of sunshine there. If you dont know where it is. It is the location of the first home of the San Francisco warriors. The cow palace. We are right next to there. We believe that if we provide highquality programs rooted in social and emotional learning. Example teaching empathy or selfcontrol. If we allow opportunities for kids to experience new activities or new ideas and if we have programs where adults child ratios are low and kids have the opportunity be to form positive relationships with caring adults, our kids will have all of the tools necessary to navigate life. Our specialty is sports. I think that is why our partnership with the warriors has been so strong. In our 25 year history, we have only served visitation valley. It is underserved and it needs a lot of attention. We realize that to have the most impact in the community we need to go where the kids are, the school system. Ewith our partner ships we are 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 cabins. I was nervous as h heck. I thought what is going to hand, what is going to happen . I went flying into the trees and it was like an amazing experience. I flew into the trees and i was like it was so fun. Both of my parents were working minimum wage jobs raising nine kids of in San Francisco. In the area we lived in visitation valley, my mom was scared for us to walk out the door. Rock to be basically my hand in leading me out of the city. I dont think that i would have had the courage, which is one of rocks virtues, to go off to college, to have experiences as i have. It is an imprint on your heart and on your life. Rock will be with you forever, and 10 years from now when you are in college or graduating college, you are going to walk the stage thinking about rock. That is what i did. Rock changes lives. It changed my life. It changed my siblings life and my parents lives. It just changes lives. [applause. ] 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.