[♪] [♪] >> okay. we are here to get the job done. good morning. is it morning still? i've been up since 5:00 i think. i'm trying to keep -- i've been to so many places throughout the day. this is probably the fifth or sixth, but who's counting? thank you all so much for joining us here today. with me i have dr. grant colfax, who is the director of the

department of public health, as well as dr. anton nagusablan who is the director of mental health reform. daniel leary, the c.e.o. and founder of tipping point community, and matthew state, the chair of u.c.f. department of psychiatry here in san francisco. i'm excited because these are incredible leaders in our community who are going to help us with some really challenging problems that we know we face as a city. last week we launched the mental health reform initiative to help those at the intersection of homeless, mental illness, and substance abuse disorder in san francisco. and through our detailed analyst, dr. nagusablan and the department of public health have identified the people in our city who are most vulnerable and in need of help. now, to be clear, we see it. but now we have clear and

accurate data. of those 4,000 individuals, 41% frequently use urgent and emergency psychiatric services. 95% of those folks suffer from alcohol use disorder. 35% are african-americans, despite the fact that we have a less than 6% population of african-americans in san francisco overall. so we have a lot of work to do ahead of us to provide the behavioural healthcare that people need. we need partners to do it. we need to work with our state officials, with our philanthropic organizations and our non-profit communities. that's why today i'm excited to announce that the city has partnered with tipping point community and ucsf who share our goals of addressing the mental health crisis in our city and

providing people with the care that they need. we know that addressing the needs of the most vulnerable requires experts in the field, it requires collaboration and the development of public-private partners. tipping point and ucsf department of psychiatry came together to really understand how to improve the outcomes for san francisco residents experiencing long-term homeless, but who also have challenges with behavioural health. they worked with the city departments and various community-based organizations who helped to put together information to inform this comprehensive report, including the department of public health, the department of homeless and supportive services, the hospital council, p.r.c. thank you, brent andrews for being here and your amazing work. health right 360.

thank you for your rigorous work on what we deal with in terms of treatment for folks who also sadly deal with substance use disorder as well. thanks to the rigorous research conducted by tipping point and ucsf. we have a report that we can use to implement data-driven policy decisions that will effectively work and change our city for the better. this report highlights how philanthropic and public funding can work hand in hand to help san franciscans suffering. they have provided several recommendations to improve our system coordination, because we know that it definitely has a few holes in it and it needs to be better coordinated. enhancing people's access to treatment. meeting people where we are. we can't think they're going to show up at the door of a location for help or for

support. we are going to need to go out there in the streets and meet people where they are. engaging more people in care and services. we are excited to partner with them to implement these recommendations. but also in order to address the mental health crisis in our city. we need to build on what is already working. we're going to do that in part by expanding the number of hummingbird beds in a city, in our city. today i'm really pleased to announce that thanks to the funding from tipping point, we'll be able to add 15 new hummingbird beds which offer psychiatric respite. that is absolutely amazing and it's really expensive. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: so with these new beds, we'll be able to connect people experiencing

homelessness with behavioural health needs, the care that they need. i'm not sure if any of you have visited the hummingbird facility at s.f. general, but it is absolutely amazing. i had an opportunity to not only touch bases with clients, but we also did an announcement last year expanding the number of beds at that location as well. to hear someone say to me that i'm trying, it's hard, but i'm glad to have help, it makes all the difference in the world. this is an incredible facility and i'm so proud of the work that they do. as dr. nagusablan will get into more details, we know that the vast majority of the 4,000 people we have identified unfortunately have alcohol use disorder. the tipping point report includes some innovative

suggestions for treating those suffering from alcohol use disorder and we are looking forward to making some changes and implementing some of these in the coming months. there will be more could you tell mes to come and dr. nagusablan will continue to implement our approach to healthcare because that's his job. we will recommend more ways to improve care for our city's most vulnerable residents. we all, as i said, need to work together to address this challenge that we face. with policy, financial investments, and working in a collaborative approach. so we truly appreciate the partnership of ucsf and tipping point. now, i want to turn this over to the c.e.o. of tipping point

community. they've done a lot of work to address homelessness and taking it a step further by digging into the root causes of some of the challenges we face to make the right kinds of investments. this is going to make a world of difference. ladies and gentlemen, daniel leary. [ applause ]]. >> thank you, mayor breed for your leadership. we know that the primary cause of homelessness is a lack of affordable housing, but we also know that behavioural health conditions, like mental illness and substance use disorders contribute to homelessness. without a stable home, these conditions are far harder to treat. in partnership with ucsf's department of psychiatry, tipping point engaged a public health consultancy called john

snow inc. to improve opportunities for san francisco's existing behavioural system. we convened leaders from city departments, from ucsf, from s.f. general hospital, and a variety of community-based service providers. we conducted dozens of stakeholder interviews, including a focus group at the respite center. we engaged closely with the department of public health throughout the process, checking assumptions and findings against the experience of our city partners. now, as the mayor said, the findings are in. we need to know the names and needs of everyone who is homeless with a behavioural healthcare need, provide wrap-around services that promote stabilization and a path to permanent housing, and ensure that systems and services

proactively address and reduce disparities, especially among black and lgbtq individuals experiencing homelessness. tipping point's role going forward will be to fund the priority investments in the department of public health and the service community, while encouraging our philanthropic partners and peers to do the same. we are taking the first steps towards making this vision a reality. today we are announcing that tipping point will invest up to $3 million to create a second hummingbird psychiatric respite center, replicating their -- [ applause ]. >> as the mayor said, this is the type of program you want to replicate. this will expand access to a critical supportive step out of homelessness. we invite all of our other funders and friends throughout

the city to explore the report findings out today and invest in the recommendations and join us. now i'd like to introduce two people that are working every day to improve the health outcomes of our neighbors. please join me in welcoming dr. anton nigusse bland, who is the director of mental health reform and dr. grant colfax, the director of public health. >> thank you, mayor breed, for leading the way. if we're going to reform our system of care for the nearly 4,000 san franciscans who are most in need, everyone will have to work together. that's why it's so important to be standing here with our partners at tipping point and ucsf talking about these common goals that we share and advancing our shared vision. i want that briefly highlight a couple of findings in this report that reinforce our own. first, behavioural health

outcomes are health outcomes and they are far worse for people of color. this report points out that black men die as almost twice the rate of white men of liver cirrohsis even though they have lower rates of alcohol disorder. we also found of the people experiencing homelessness, substance abuse problems have a higher incidence. alcohol remains a persistent and enormous public health issue that impacts the lives and health of many san franciscans. our most recent community health needs assessment revealed that two out of five adults surveyed

reported a survey of binge alcohol use. between 2014 and 2016, over 8,000 emergency room visits resulted from alcohol-related issues. we can help. we know how to care for alcohol use disorders. we've already begun to work on the kind of evidence-based approaches to chronic alcoholism that this report recommends and particularly exploring the development of a managed alcohol program. the research is very strong that managed alcohol programs, medications, and treatment can reduce the harms of excessive alcohol use. we can create safety and stability for people if we innovate on this problem together. we need to make sure that proven solutions are applied in a thoughtful way and extend their reach to people who have not had sufficient access to the help that they most need. we also agree with the report's findings that we should make it easier to get realtime data about our system of care. we are launching the very kind

of collaboration across city agencies that this report urges us to purview. we expect to be able to provide this transparent information about our beds and our system of care to the providers, clients, and members of the public so that all of us have a better understanding and is have an improved ability to access care. we know that research and philanthropy will play important roles in making these recommendations a reality. we are grateful for that support and partnership. [ applause ]. >> good morning, everybody. i'm grant colfax. i'm the director of health. i'd like to thank mayor breed for her leadership, ucsf, and tipping point for the ongoing

and strengthened partnership that they have with the department. of course, dr. nigusse bland for his bold leadership in his vision for us to do better as a community as we address the intersection of the homelessness and behavioural health issues. this is an important day. we are coming together focusing on solving problems and improving health for the population of nearly 4,000 san franciscans who are experiencing homelessness, mental health, and substance use disorders. today we announced a significant commitment of partnership to meet those goals. a population focus means not only a focus on treatment of the issue patients, but we look at the big picture. we change the way the system responds when a public health challenge is this great. we learn. we look at the problem from multiple angles. we draw on clinical expertise

and data. we try new approaches. we learn what works. we stop what doesn't. we measure results and we built a track record of success. we figured this out when we look at h.i.v. look at the numbers being released this week. we've gone from ground zero in the aids epidemic, to pledging to be the first city to get to zero. that didn't happen overnight. it took multiple stakeholders from across san francisco. we need to use that experience to address other deep health challenges in our city. progress does not happen and cannot happen in isolation. as with h.i.v., we know that forging behavioural health solutions for san francisco residents experiencing homelessness and health issues will take researchers and clinicians, community

stakeholders, clients, philanthropists and the support of the public. i and we are grateful for the contributions of tipping point and ucsf. these two robust institutions that we're fortunate to have in san francisco. the health department looks forward to partnering with them and many others with the significant behavioural health challenges facing people experiencing homelessness in san francisco. together we can and we will heal our city. thank you. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: thank you. now, i don't know if any of you caught this, but john snow inc. did the report. you know nothing, john snow? nobody caught that? okay. next up we have dr. matt state from ucsf.

[ applause ]. >> thank you so much, mayor breed. truly, i'm thrilled to be able to stand here today with a group of leaders who are so dedicated to this city and to the most pressing social problems we face, including chronic homelessness. more than 30 years ago, at the height of the aids crisis, local government in san francisco health providers, academicia, philanthropy, set aside parochial differences and came together to attack what seemed like an insurmountable challenge. this week mayor breed sat with the department of public health and ucsf to review the remarkable progress that has been made in this struggle and to double efforts to work collaboratively to be the first city to get to zero, something that must have seemed impossibly out of reach three decades ago. this is the inspiration for our efforts and it is the model that we are pursuing to address the

intersection of mental illness, homelessness, and substance use disorders. this report is a product of all these organizations coming together to help develop a consensus road map that develops tangible, immediate differences in the lives of individuals and families experiencing psychiatric illness and substance use disorder. the work that went into it from clinicians, other service providers, and many others. i can't thank mayor breed, director colfax, and dr. nigusse bland enough for your leadership and inspiration. and to daniel leary and the tipping point folks, it's been a remarkable partnership. we're tremendously grateful at ucsf. there are several other people i want to mention. first, i really would like to underscore a tremendous contribution from jane hawgood

and john pritzger for their help to launch this collaboration and bring us together. as you've heard today, it will be the partnership of academia and the city and philanthropy that really promises to allow us to move forward on a critically important and admittedly extremely difficult challenge. ucsf and the city have a long partnership beginning 150 years ago, when ucsf doctors began caring for san franciscans in the city's general hospital. today ucsf clinicians continue to care for the city's most vulnerable, including children and adults, at san francisco general hospital and in a range of outstanding community-focused programs for those suffering from mental illness and substance use disorders. from our division of city-wide case management, our division of

substance abuse and addiction management, our psychiatric emergency services to name just a few. as chair of the department of psychiatry at ucsf, i could not be more proud of our people and our long-standing partnership with the city that has allowed us to work every day to make a difference in the lives of our patients and their families. as a representative of ucsf here today, i can't stress enough our commitment to collaborate in taking on these big challenges, our department of psychiatry, the new homelessness and housing initiative, our students, our faculty and trainees are all determined to work together to find ways to tackle the most pressing health and health equity challenges we face, including the nexus of mental illness, substance abuse, and homelessness. thank you again, mayor, director colfax, dr. nigusse bland, and daniel, for your tremendous partnership and efforts. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: so there you

have it. let me just say that we all know that the challenges that we face as a city weren't created overnight. there won't be any easy fixes. it will take time. it will take, as every speaker here as said, collaboration, working together, seeking out the professionals who have the expertise in the medical arena and the non-profit sector, our policy-makers to provide the right kinds of solutions. this is so critical because when we look at homelessness and the challenges that, sadly, around 4,000 residents of our homeless community face, we know that it's not just homeless people who are dealing with a number of these issues in terms of behavioural health. it is time that we take just a different approach towards addressing behavioural health challenges in our city and in

our country. that we begin to get rid of the stigma attached to seeking health for people who sometimes are dealing with depression and other issues that continue to plague our society. one of the things that i am really committed to is making sure that we have wellness centers in all of our high schools in san francisco, all of our schools in general, so that when kids are dealing with trauma or any other kind of situation, that they have the help and the support that they need in the place where they study and learn every single day. looking at creative and innovative solutions is how we are going to create a city that is healthy and is thriving. i want to thank all of you for the work that you have done and will continue to do to get us to a better place with all of these leaders, all of these amazing people, all of these incredible minds. i know it's only a matter of time before we get to that better place that we deserve to

be. thank you all so much for being here today. [ applause ]. [♪] [♪] ♪ homelessness in san francisco is considered the number 1 issue by most people who live here, and it doesn't just affect neighbors without a home, it affects all of us. is real way to combat that is to work together. it will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and community members all coming together. [♪]

>> the product homeless connect community day of service began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. what we do is we host and expo-style event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. there's over 120 service providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5% -- to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal service providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that service today here it is an actual, tangible service people can leave with it. >> i am with the hearing and speech center of northern california, and we provide a variety of services including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we

actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. to follow updates when they come into the speech center and we do a full diagnostic hearing test, and we start the process of taking an impression of their year, deciding on which hearing aid will work best for them. if they have a smart phone, we make sure we get a smart phone that can connect to it, so they can stream phone calls, or use it for any other services that they need. >> san francisco has phenomenal social services to support people at risk of becoming homeless, are already experience and homelessness, but it is confusing, and there is a lot of waste. bringing everyone into the same space not only saves an average of 20 hours a week in navigating the system and waiting in line for different areas, it helps them talk, so if you need to sign up for medi-cal, what you need identification, you don't have to go to sacramento or wait in line at a d.m.v., you go across the hall to the d.m.v. to get your i.d. ♪ today we will probably see around 30 people, and averaging about 20 of this people coming

to cs for follow-up service. >> for a participant to qualify for services, all they need to do is come to the event. we have a lot of people who are at risk of homelessness but not yet experiencing it, that today's event can ensure they stay house. many people coming to the event are here to receive one specific need such as signing up for medi-cal or learning about d.m.v. services, and then of course, most of the people who are tender people experiencing homelessness today. >> i am the representative for the volunteer central. we are the group that checks and all the volunteers that comment participate each day. on a typical day of service, we have anywhere between 40500 volunteers that we, back in, they get t-shirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the different service areas and help them find the different services that they needs.

>> one of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and supportive housing is by working with homeless outreach teams. they come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into short-term shelter, and talk about housing-1st policies. we also work very closely with the department of public health to provide a lot of our services. >> we have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. we have folks that help give out lunches in the café, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag, bag of groceries, together hygiene kit, and whatever they need to. volunteers, i think of them as the secret sauce that just makes the whole process works smoothly. >> participants are encouraged and welcomed to come with their pets.

we do have a pet daycare, so if they want to have their pets stay in the daycare area while they navigate the event, they are welcome to do that, will we also understand some people are more comfortable having their pets with them. they can bring them into the event as well. we also typically offer veterinary services, and it can be a real detriment to coming into an event like this. we also have a bag check. you don't have to worry about your belongings getting lost, especially when that is all that you have with you. >> we get connected with people who knew they had hearing loss, but they didn't know they could get services to help them with their hearing loss picks and we are getting connected with each other to make sure they are getting supported. >> our next event will be in march, we don't yet have a date set. we typically sap set it six weeks out. the way to volunteer is to follow our newsletter, follow us on social media, or just visit our website. we always announce it right away, and you can register very easily online. >> a lot of people see folks experience a homelessness in the city, and they don't know how they can help, and defence like

this gives a whole bunch of people a lot of good opportunities to give back and be supported. [♪] >> welcome to pricidia middle school. i am emma dunbar and i had the enormous privilege to be the principal in this community. thank you all for joining us. [ cheering and applause ].

>> i want to give a very warm welcome to my students, to our staff, to elected officials, board members, mayor appliappli and our trusted partners at sales force. i couldn't be happier to host you all on this yard just opened for our new school year after four years in the making. it is a prime example of what investment in our public schools can look like. four years ago, mark benniof, along with the mayors and superintendents from oakland and san francisco, stood on this very same yard to celebrate the third year of the sales force grant. at that time, there was success to celebrate. wifi in every middle school, computers and ipads available to every school, the established of the principal's innovation fund. we may not have appreciated how

much more celebrating there was to come. to date, we've now seen over $40 million invested in the students of san francisco unified school districts. [ cheering and applause ]. >> and $20 million invested in the students at oakland unified. [ cheering and applause ]. >> this has had incredible results in math, computer science, and college readiness throughout both of these great cities. what i want to share with you today is what this means for presidio and what i observed seeing these transformations. not just to our physical environments but to our students' lives. here is an example of what our community has seen since 2013. increased student access to and

interest in coding and robotics. teachers and students collaborating in online environments in every classroom in our school. in addition to our beautiful new space, our community enjoys partnering directly with sales force volunteers who have supported our teachers throughout the school in creating welcoming environments for learning. we know that our students thrive when we can surround them with the support of everyone in the community, from teachers to volunteers to corporate partners to parents. i'd now like to personally thank and introduce mark benniof co-c.e.o. and chairman of sales force who has championed this great, incredible, amazing work for our students. [ cheering and applause ] .

>> thank you so much for coming today. it's a gorgeous day and always the hottest day when we do these announcements. i just want to say you have an amazing team up hear that i want to call out. we have principal dunbar. thank you for everything you're doing. [ cheering and applause ]. >> and we have two of our fabulous mayors here in san francisco and oakland, mayor breed and mayor shaw. thank you. [ cheering and applause ]. >> and we have our amazing team here of our superintendents kyle and vincent, thank you for everything that you're doing. [ applause ]. >> we have anthony from the sales force foundation too. thank you, ebony. [ cheering and applause ]. >> doing work like this really does take a team. one member of our team is not up

here and we're thinking a lot about him. that is ed lee. it was really mayor lee that had the vision that we felt so strongly about to work on the 12 middle schools. that was seven years ago and now we can see today here is this incredible manifestation of our middle schools getting rebooted and it's in his memory that we're doing this work. let's remember him and let's say thank you as well to all of you for being here. thank you for your support of our kids. thank you to the kids also. so thank you guys for coming here. [ cheering and applause ]. >> one thing about doing this is the kids are always like, this is boring, when is it over? it's going to get worse before it gets better. [ laughter ]. >> i apologize. no, it's okay?

you're interested in this? all right. all right. then let's do it. thank you, principal dunbar for welcoming us to this beautiful presidio middle school and to you and all the staff at presidio that make a difference for our kids. thanks to our great partners and all of our leaders and great principals here. if you're a principal in san francisco or oakland, would you just stand up and be recognized. [ cheering and applause ]. >> you know, these principals who are on the frontlines every single day in these schools and with these kids doing this

leadership work. they have our best hopes with them. as part of our program, as our principal innovation program, gets $100,000 a year over the last seven years to do what they think they need to do for their schools. i admire their creativity and desire to improve the education of each school, but i just want to thank them for their hard work and dedication to the schools. it's so powerful. and i also want to thank the kids. thank you for all of your hard work too and everything you're doing to have a great education. because i'll tell you, the best ideas for our schools come from our kids. as we've been working with the schools, of course we have ideas and our visions and we remember when we were in school or when we were in middle school, but what it means to be in middle school today is different than what i was when i was in middle school. thank you to you guys for keeping us in touch with what's

important and using your voices and also speaking your truth and saying what you really want for your school. it's the kids actually before you who have graduated and over there at george washington high school who said that they wanted a new playground, that that was very important to them. you can thank them because they used their voices and said that's what they wanted. that's why we're here very much today. keep in mind as you go forward that we want to hear from you, what you're doing. we're all here because of you. we're all here because we believe in each and every one of you. we believe in your future and we believe that you are going to create an amazing future. we've had our chance. our chance is over. [ laughter ]. >> now it's your chance. so we're looking for you to be the leaders and to take us forward and hope fulfully. i'm here as your neighbor, not

just a c.e.o. when it comes to our public schools, a lot of people say they want to help but they don't know how to. well, a few years ago ago, some of you heard this story before, i came over here, walked through the door, and i said to the principal, how can i help? what can i do? that's a message for each and every one of us. the principal is the local c.o. of that school. all we have to do is knock on that door and say, how can we help you? every c.o. can adopt a public school. every company can adopt a district. every one of us can do something. i think that that is what is so powerful. ultimately, it's the connection with the principal that's so important the more work that we've done in the public schools, we just get reminded of that over and over again. in my mind, i always say how do i make presidio the best school

on the planet? each of us wants the best for our kids and make these the best schools that we can. so often it's the principal that knows how to make that happen. thank you to our principals. thank you for what you're doing. this has been an amazing process for me. as i've been working on presidio middle school, i've had a lot of friends who have gone through this school and i didn't know that when i started the process. i'll tell them this story. i've adopted this school and this is what we're doing and so forth. different friends of mine have said, i have went there, did you know i went there, one of our board members went there. the amazing thing happened is my mom came to me and said she was here for one year. [ laughter ]. >> isn't that amazing? so my mom was here for one year. i don't know how she did that. i don't even know how that happened, but luckily i got some kudos from my mom when i said

we're working on presidio middle school. so we so stronger believe at sales force that we're here for all of our stakeholders, not just the shareholders. we're here to serve communities, public schools, everyone who is part of san francisco, oakland, or anywhere we're doing business. we're thinking about the bigger picture. that is how we guide our company's management and our leadership. this is part of our mission. that's who we are at sales force. that's very much why for the last seven years sales force has forged really an unprecedented collaboration with the school districts of san francisco and oakland. we are happy to be their largest b benefactors to support them. our journey has only started. we are at the beginning of what we can do with the schools. we are committed to the long term for our schools.

we are there for our districts and for all of you. it's why we adopt public schools at sales force, 34 of them in the bay area. 100 around the world that have the same spotlight on them that presidio does. here we have a commitment that every one of our senior vice presidents at sales force has a adopt a public school. it's part of their responsibility. this school is my school, so they lucked out. [ laughter ]. >> but a lot of the schools have the same level of attention and support. our colleagues who i want to thank and who are here have given 4 million hours in volunteerism since we started the company. if you're a sales force employee, raise your hand so i can thank you.

[ applause ]. >> i'll tell you, these results, it's really working. we monitor if we're doing the right things. we see these incredible results for san francisco and oakland. for full-time teachers for math and technology. a surge of kids who are enrolled in stem and computer science. more young women and more students of color. higher attendance rates. higher math scores. higher grades. you guys all have to get higher grades now, isn't that good news? that's what we're expecting you to be in school more and have higher grades because of this. this year we're going to give another $17.2 million to san francisco and oakland public schools. incredible. [ applause ]. >> i'm excited that we've given more than $67 million to these local schools.

congratulations to you. we are well on our way to giving $100 million to local san francisco and oakland public schools. i hope that is just the beginning. [ applause ]. >> you know, i mentioned mayor lee and mayor lee is no longer with us, but our work together today is an homage to his life and legacy. we see the results of the partnership right here at presidio. when i adopted this school, i asked the students, what do you want? and they said, we want more fun. i said, well, what does more fun mean? well, we want more fun at school. what does that mean? we want more computers, better networking, faster networks, better, faster wifi. and we want to have a better playground too. is this a better playground? >> yes. >> did you like the prison yard that we had for you here before?

no. we thought it was designed by one of the best prison yard design groups. you voted to change it, so we did. where is ron who designed the playground? right over here, ron. [ cheering and applause ] thank you, ron. because when the kids said we wanted a new playground, we hired ron. he is one of the top playground designers in the world. he's done a lot of amazing things. he came over here and he said, my vision of a school playground is just a big pile of dirt that kids can play in and create whatever they want, that i admire the creativity of kids. and i thought maybe that wasn't going to go over very well. but ron is still after that idea. then we came up with a huge vision for what the playground

could be. then the kids who were here before you said we don't like that. that's not a very good idea. we said, fine, why don't we work together. so we created a class where those kids could work with us and ron. for a year they designed the playground you now have. so this playground is designed by the students of the middle school. that is pretty cool. if you're liking it and feeling like they made the right decisions, you should really congratulate them. if you don't like the decisions they made, they're right over there at george washington, and you can go talk to them about it. with a help of a grant at sales force, we teamed up with the school's security guard to start a new book club. some of the students in the club were able to attend a book event with the author angie thomas.

[ applause ]. >> i'm trying to give you inspiration that everyone here can adopt a public school. to walk down a few blocks from your house just like i did. to knock on the door of the principal just like i did and let that journey unfold for you. it's very exciting. the most important thing is to listen to the kids because they have the answers. they represent the future of our world. that's why we do this work, so that they have the education they need to be successful in the future and to take care of us because we're getting old. we're going to need you to take care of us. thank you very much, all of you. thanks to all of you for being here. we're so grateful to everyone. thank you. [ applause ]. >> mayor breed: i'm next. thanks to sales force and mark

beniof and all the work that you have done to change lives in san francisco. what's so amazing about sales force and their incredible leader, mark, is that public service is embedded in what this company stands for. it's not providing software only, which is a great resource to have, but it's making sure that we are all doing our part to give back and support our surrounding community. i'm so proud you're a native san franciscan. we appreciate all you have done and will continue to do to improve the lives of all san franciscans. thank you so much, mark. [ applause ]]. >> mayor breed: i've got to say mayor shaf thinks it is san

francisco and is surprised that the rich man is shining bright with the sun. every now and then the sun shines on the west side of san francisco. i can't help but go back to my time i spent in san francisco. i wasn't probably as well behaved as some of the kids are here today. in middle school, i was a handful. in fact, i'd always have to go to our girls' counselor's office and say it wasn't me this time. the thing about the teachers and principal, they never gave up on me. they supported, encouraged, listened to me. school was my sanctuary. coming from a community -- i lived in public housing. there was a lot of challenges in

my community. i was so blessed to have incredible teachers, counselors and principals. i played french horn at franklin ben and i wasn't that bad at it. the opportunity to be a part of an incredible community was what inspired me to want to also give back. because i wanted to make sure that every young person in this city had an opportunity to succeed and to do whatever they want to do in life. there are people who invested in me at a time when i didn't understand what it meant to support the efforts and the work that i was doing in school. now i get it. they were preparing me for a better future. that is our responsibility. it is a responsibility that i don't take lightly. sales force has been at the forefront of really investing, but also holding others accountable to do more to invest in our young people.

we have the resources right here in san francisco. there was a real disconnect between my community and what was happening downtown in the financial district. a real disconnect between all the possibilities that existed in this city. it's why i started opportunities for all, to make sure that every high school student has access to a paid internship. i know sales force provides incredible internship opportunities so these young people can learn firsthand what happens in the world of finance, technology, or any industry they choose to be a part of. whether they want to take over when mark retires in a couple of years. [ laughter ]. >> mayor breed: he says you have to take care of him on top of taking his job. whether -- i mean, i'm term limit out eventually. we're going to need new mayors, councilors, principals. we're going to need the next generation to not only take over

the world in all these amazing positions, but we're also going to need you to save our planet. there is a lot of work to be done and it starts right here, making sure that no child is left behind, no matter their financial circumstances, no matter if they were raised like i was by my grandmother in public housing, no matter where they come from in the four corners of this city, we want to make sure that we invest in our young people and that they have successful. that's what today is about. yes, it is a significant contribution, larger than any we've received in the city, but it's a personal commitment from mark beniof and sales force, many of our officials and others, to do better, to make sure we are taking care of our young people every single day. it matters. it's the difference between what happened in my family. i became mayor and, sadly, my

brother is still incarcerated. i lost a sister to a drug overdose. this is the same family, the same community. what a difference it makes when you make the right investment. so let's make sure that we listen to what mark is talking about. all of the companies out there in san francisco, we're coming for you so that you can take care of our kids and our future. [ cheering and applause ]. >> mayor breed: we all have to start taking responsibility for everybody else's kids too. that's what today is about. i want to make sure that ten years from now that these young people are prepared for the future, they're prepared to take over our jobs. i can tell by the look in their eyes that they're going to do just that. so today is a celebration. thank you all so much for joining us here today. at this time, i want to

introduce my sister from across the bay. she's making it happen in oakland and she's doing great things every single day on housing, on education. i'm just so grateful to have a partner to address so many of the challenges that we know we face in some incredible cities by the bay. ladies and gentlemen, oakland mayor, libby schaaf. >> i brought the oakland weather with me. >> it is so good to be here in our bay area. we may have two cities, but we have one bay. we have one bay area. we know that we rise or fall togeth together. also in memory, since you invoked the memory of our mayor

ed lee, someone who lived the values of regionalism. one thing i hope you all know about the mayors of oakland and san francisco is we are home-grown girls and we are graduates of our public school system. [ cheering and applause ]. >> now, i want to pile on to london's challenge to the corporate community. there is a lot of talk these days about shareholder responsibility, how that is a thing of the past and we need to move on to stakeholder responsibility. i challenge other companies to do what sales force has done. that is put your money where your mouth is and put your love where your money is. the fact that sales force does not just pay lip service to the

idea of corporate responsibility but they invest deeply and they invest with humility. i don't know if i've ever heard a c.e.o. use the word "listen" so much in a speech. i know you have not heard a lot of c.e.o. speeches, but i have. it's not a verb that comes up often. sales force approaches this partnership with our school district with a huge sense of humility, with a curiosity and a desire to learn from you young people who are the stakeholders. that is something that i think has made you successful in business, but it is also making you a success in our community. the fact that you don't just write a check, look at the love of all these blue-shirt-wearing geeks in the back row. notice they let the kids sit in

the shade and they are roasting in the sun back there. that is love. now, i want to talk about what excites me so much specifically about the investment in oakland. young people, we throw around this $8.7 million. let me say it in the long form $8,700,000. okay. think of a stack of $1 bills. that's some serious cash. that is just this year. i just want to recognize that since you began partnering with oakland, you have increased your investment every year. [ cheering and applause ]. >> since london had a go back in your time machine, you're going to have to indulge me a little bit too. we all can picture in our minds

that teacher, that teacher that changed our lives, that teacher who is the reason that we developed the confidence, the vision, maybe the hutspah to be where we are today. what excites me about this year's investment from sales force is a new focus on teacher recruitment and retention. [ applause ]. >> teachers like ms. ducatz. she was my dance teacher at skyline high school. when i started running for mayor, she would show up at all my events. she would raise her hand and inform everybody that would listen that when i was in high school i choreographed a dance number where i literally leapt off a tall structure into the trusting arms of my fellow dancers and that she knew i was going to be a great mayor because i have always been a

risk taker. there she was. my high school teacher tracked me down to support me for running for mayor in my hometown a lot of decades later. trust me, my young friends, when i went to high school, i took typing class. there were no computers. there was no internet, no facebook, no snapchat, no fortnite, none of that stuff. and yet, when i became the mayor and visited my old high school campus, it didn't look a lot different. now sales force has changed that with a deep investment in computer science. you all probably don't know what a type-writer is, do you? do you know who a type-writer is? i see a blank look right there. it's all right. it's all right. you don't need them anymore. yeah, you. i am also truly excited in our

investment in our newcomer population. i am extremely proud to be possibly the most unapologetic city mayor in america. [ applause ]. >> we know that our region thrives because of its commitment to inclusive diversity, and we recognize that while everyone in this expensive bay area is struggling, there is a special need from our families who are fleeing oppression, violence, and seeking opportunity in this country. we want to welcome them and help them be successful and thrive in our communities which we want them to feel is home. in