sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program.

i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family

participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you

particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds. there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting,

and i have a creative streak in me. it ranges from t-shirts, jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a street artist? >> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at 7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts. >> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do.

>> he has a way about him that brings people in and seeks to involve the people of san francisco. that is what we need. the polarization and san francisco does not benefit the

people we are about to help. they need compassion, support, and they need us to work together to build a system o and employment and drug treatment and family building and all of those services that will enable us not to pay so much money on the back end. what you are doing is spectacular. i am humbled to be with you. i am excited the mayor has me this opportunity to work with great people to do this work. believe me, the best is yet to comment. thank you so much. [applause] >> this is only his third day on the job. thank you for coming out. it is exciting to live in a cityç really believe in changig chrysostom of care with homelessness.

-- changing the system of care with homelessness. we admire and respect and are so excited to have them here. it makes our day when we start the day with them. thank you, mayor lee. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. she wanted to introduce people who are above her. we are never above her, we are with her. [applause] anytime we can have a thousand volunteers and over 300 providers to help us withç helping others who need our help, that is what san francisco is about. yesterday, were you there at city hall? how many people were there at city hall to celebrate 50 years of tony bennett?

you saw it on the news. you've heard about him being there. we gave them the proclamation, the key to the city. what i was thinking about all day long was how wonderful our city is. the fact that tony bennett has sung about our city, and i just kept thinking, why do we do this? why did you come out so much? you'll love this city as much as i do. çpeople of all levels, whether you are working for a great institution or you are working with a different company or you were just a volunteer and someone who cares about somebody else, you do what you can. when we can organize and city

government to provide that to opportunity, and whether it is a haircut, how can we provide training, how can we get you some eyeglasses, how can we set you up on e-mail -- q different parts of life we live normally may not be available to everybody, but you are here to make that available. when i think about the otani bennett is singing to, i think about you. -- when i think about who tony bennett is singing to, i think about you. it is a city of people to know how to do things for other people. that is what makes me so proud to be the mayor of this city. i am willing to sacrifice everything there is to do what is good for the city. i do not care about the politics so much as i care that we can

bring more people together under this big tent we call the city of san francisco. triple the effort to help so many other people change their lives, and if we can have a moment and their lives to suggest there is a way out, venues in which we care for them, it isç represented in the way you do things today. çthe way you talk to people. the way you communicate.ç i love these efforts come at these efforts for we can demonstrate all the humanity we have. people watch us and they think about san francisco and they think that is the place -- you can get lonely in manhattan. when you come to san francisco, it is not law only. bottom of my heart.

thank you for coming out and sharing with us your skill sets as we go and do what we're supposed to do to solve the chronic and long-term needs. we enjoy these moments where so many of you as sure your resources, your time, your character and personality. congratulations, thank you to çthe 43rd homeless can act. thank you for being here. -- connect. thank you for being here. >> we have never given the mayor a t-shirt. i think to date is the day. [applause] they are one of us, right? [applause] i want to close today by thanking -- you see if the people up here, but there are

hundreds of people getting things set up. have a wonderful day. we also have a very new committee that will be here today. çthey will be walking around to make sure that you, the volunteers, had everything indeed. if you need something&j, let us know. ok? have a wonderful day. [applause] >> this is one of the museum's longest art interest groups. it was founded by art lovers who wanted the museum to reflect new directions in contemporary art.

it has been focused on artists in this region with an eye toward emerging artists. ♪ it is often at the early stage of their career, often the first major presentation of their work in a museum. it is very competitive. only a few artists per year receive the award. it is to showcase their work to have a gallery and publication dedicated to their work. ♪ i have been working with them on the last two years on the award and the exhibitions. the book looks at the full scope

of the awards they have sponsored. ♪ it has been important to understand the different shifts within the award program and how that is nearing what else is going on in the bay area. -- how that is mirror beiing wht else is going on in the bay area. ♪ there are artists from different generations sometimes approaching the same theme or subject matter in different ways. they're artists looking at the history of landscape and later artists that are unsettling the history and looking at the history of conquests of nature. ♪ artists speak of what it means

to have their work scene. often you are in the studio and do not have a sense of who is really seeing your work. seeing your own work at the institution have gone to for many years and has an international audience is getting the word out to a much larger community. ♪

collects hello, i am director of the city human services agency. we're here today to celebrate an effort that began in 2009 with the passage of the stimulus act by congress has introduced by the president. one of the components of that act was a robust says -- subsidized employment program that we call san francisco jobs now. through that effort, over 17 months, we employ over 4,000 san franciscans and put a lot of people back to work for the first time in a long time. when that expired at the federal level, because we had such success, we continue the program, thanks to the leadership of mayor lee, former mayor newsom. we put some local money in, combined with some state and federal dollars, to put almost 800 people to work through this

current program adoration, helping support businesses like the one we're at today. we're here to celebrate our achievements and to demonstrate that job programs like these work. they work for local businesses. they work for folks who have not been in the work force for a long time. we are honored today, a very important man from washington, d.c., is here to celebrate with us. george shelgren, acting administrator for children and families for hhs. he is out here to talk a bit about the program and the federal perspective as well. before i introduce him, i would like to introduce mayor lee, who has been a steadfast supporter of jobs now, both with the private sector initiatives, like the ones we're showing today, on the public's eye through clean streets and clean parks, and the non-profit sector. i will turn it over to mayor lee for a few marks, and then over to george.

>> thank you. as all of you know, the mayor of san fran, i never get tired of talking about jobs, because there is so much of and need. also, there is that theme which can instantly get you into people's lives and talk about how a dog can transform their lives in such positive ways. -- how i job and transform their lives in such positive ways. the word job can be stale if you do not get to the real lives of people and things that happen. we were talking about how this corner was even physically transformed because of this pastry shop that has enlivened it from kind of a dead area that was challenged by other challenging things to one now that is much more beaming with business and people wanting to do things that are positive. when the federal government did our monies back some years ago

and they were test casing all jurisdictions across the country as to who would kind of create models that would be sustainable, i think they were talking about san francisco. because years later, when those monies are not necessarily available, we had the third or fourth iteration of that jobs now program with local funds, because we believe in those goals. it was a chance to use the federal money in the right way. we have done that with the great support of not only our local human services agency and leadership there but through the human services agency that herb schulz has been a great leader in. and we get to show off with mr. sheldon's visit here. he will see this as one of the many examples of how we use the funds to stimulate our economy, but also how we have transformed the individual lives. we have people who really did not have the skill sets, wondering whether or not they

would be able to use the opportunity to gain job skills that would sustain them, whether they wanted to get more education or create more education opportunities that led to a career. you will be able to visit some of those individuals that are working right here today. you cannot escape them because they have such big windows. you have to see them working. no breaks here, but they're working because they are building these skills that have been interest in. and these skills will lead them to a great many opportunities that are forthcoming. that is exactly what the administration, the federal government wished it to happen. this is what we are actually doing. this is what our small-business advocates, like stoccott halgie for many years have been saying, to increase small businesses like this, and then to activate areas that have been dead in

because of lack of activity. then awaken individuals, those with challenges in their life with economics that would not have had that chance. now they have that chance. individuals working here are taking every opportunity to not squander that great gift that we are getting. and then changing their lives as they are coming forth. this is the great story of america. this is where we meet federal goals with local goals, and this is where we implement those promises to everybody that we oftentimes say in words we want to promise you something, but sometimes we cannot deliver. i think this program is delivering but it is making a difference. i am eager, not only to come here to see a good friend again and our agencies, but i am also here to eat the cupcakes. [laughter] thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i had the opportunity to meet

mr. sheldon a year or so ago. he came on to the job and was speaking with staff. we were talking about employment programs and innovative models to get families back into the workforce. his staff recommended, among other cities, him to come to san francisco. myself and my staff put together this program, and we were very honored. we certainly did our best to show off our program a year ago. we are really pleased that he has chosen to come back to see the progress we have made, despite the unfortunate loss of the federal money. but within the context of our existing welfare to work program and with the commitment of local dollars. i am really happy to be at a work site and have mr. sheldon here to meet participants of the program and employers.

>> thank you. mr. mayor, thank you. you know, if you look back over the last three years, the recovery and reinvestment act did a substantial amount to begin to stimulate the economy. and these subsidized employment program of that was a big piece. and when i came to san francisco and to your center and saw employee years who were the most enthusiastic about it, i remember talking to one employer there who was a manager of an architecture firm. she said, if i have a choice between spending a lot of time going over 700 resumes or i could go to is a living knows what they're doing to find qualified people, what is the decision? it pointed out how important this program as. i have to compliment san

francisco. frankly, i think a lot of these cities around the country can learn a lot from san francisco. because what you did with those federal dollars expired is san francisco said we're going to keep this going, because it works. and this pastry covered that we're at today is really an example of that. they have employed, so far, three individuals who this was an opportunity to turn their life around. and you can tell if you talk to them, how excited they are about their work. and it is not just that it is important to put them back to work so that they could put a roof over their heads and educate their children and put it on the table. it is about the confidence that it builds in those individuals, that self respect. if you look back a decade ago and you ask people, what is your most important asset?

they would probably have said their house. today, they would say their job. and that is the reason the president is so committed to the american jobs that, to really getting america back to work. and he has laid out, in the state of the union, and i think many of you heard that, the four pillars of doing that. rebuilding american manufacturing. rebuilding american energy. restoring american values. and really utilizing american skills. and we're still the hardest working people probably on the planet. we get knocked down, and every time, we say we're going to get back up and do something about it. and if you look at the last seven months, a lot of positive things that happen. surely we are not coming out of this recession as fast as we

would like to, but for seven months we have had a positive job growth. and you have seen economic growth that is beginning to occur. and of the american public is beginning to have their confidence in the economy restored. there is a lot of pent up capital, over $1.50 trillion of pent-up capital that american business has not invested. and the key part of that is restoring your confidence. what san francisco is doing, i think is a step in that direction. and you will be seeing the president's budget coming out shortly. and i think it is a blueprint in terms of how we go from here. i just talked to another individual that i would like to highlight. benito delgado olsen, i believe, who is doing a program here to connect kids with dental care and also provide school supplies.

for a lot of kids, those are important components. but what he did is he decided to buy his school supplies in this country and identified a union shop out of newark and got a good deal for about 150,000 schoolbags, i believe. but what that did for that plant in newark, it allowed them through the jobs now program to 87hire chris. it leverage is everything else we do. i am an optimist about the future of this country. hubert humphrey used to say that he was an optimist because he looked out in the field of pessimism and there was too much competition. [laughter] but i think we have a lot to be optimistic about. when we met in san francisco recently, i really wanted to

come back, because what you have done here is probably more than most cities in the country, and i invite you to continue to push washington. because what you have done is you have continued to raise this issue, and i think that will kind of give us the ammunition to move the program forward. i also want to recognize the employer here, because we get a lot of credit to employees for working hard and doing their job, but it really is employers, small businesses that are going to turn this around. and you articulated it. what they have done here in bringing this shop, opening this shot up here, helping to rejuvenate a community, but also to provide some pretty damn impressive pastry in the process. i am glad to be here, and i hope to be invited back at some point. thank you. [applause]

>> and i will introduce the owner of pastry cupboard. when we lost this program in 2009, we were not sure the level of interest we would see by the private sector. i think our goal initially was 1000 placements. we quickly exceeded that, because the model we had that prescreening candidates for jobs, referring the right people, making it easy to -- easy to do interviews, they kept coming back. there were getting qualified candidates. even when the full subsidy expired, they get the folks they hired on board. its speaks to the quality of the employee, but also the commitment of the employer and the good process that my staff laid out for the employers. one of them is here. joana