SAN FRANCISCO, June 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Mayor
Edwin M. Lee and President of the
Board of Supervisors London Breed joined AT&T at City Hall to
kick off the "SF Summer of Giving" campaign, which will award
$283,000 to eight community
organizations over eight weeks in an effort to support and
spotlight organizations that make San
Francisco accessible and vibrant for everyone. Mayor Lee and
AT&T California President Ken
McNeely presented the first awardee, the Asian Pacific
American Community Center, with $20,000 to expand their community and scholarship
programs to uplift Asian and Pacific Islander communities in
San Francisco and across the Bay
Area.
AT&T also announced that it will make additional weekly
contributions of $20,000 or more
to:
- San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- University of San Francisco's Girl
TechPower Program
- California Historical Society (supporting the Recreation and
Park Department's PPIE Passport to Success program)
- The Arc of San Francisco
- NatureBridge
- Meals on Wheels of San Francisco
- CORO Northern California
Every week from June
25th to August
14th, AT&T will highlight an "SF Summer of
Giving" awardee and their contributions to San Francisco on Twitter at
#SFSummerOfGiving.
"This showing of 21st Century philanthropy by AT&T
demonstrates an understanding of the needs of our City and our
residents and lifting them up so they succeed," said Mayor
Ed Lee. "These contributions have
the potential to change the lives of families in San Francisco through some great nonprofits
that directly impact our communities and that help our residents
share in the prosperity of our City."
"Investing in our communities is not only the right thing to do,
it's one of the smartest things we can do to help keep our
communities accessible and vibrant," said AT&T California
President Ken McNeely. "The 'SF
Summer of Giving' is about giving back and lifting up the
organizations and programs that lift up San Francisco."
City and community leaders will join AT&T over the next
seven weeks in delivering the remaining awards during the "SF
Summer of Giving," and the campaign will be chronicled on Twitter
via the hashtag #SFSummerOfGiving.
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