As we look back on 2012, we want to take this time to thank you for your partnership and share with you some of our favorite photos that highlight our time together in 2012.
There is much to be thankful for:
Anonymous gifts from donors who seize the opportunity to help others.
Teachers who educate, inspire and protect our children on the first and last day.
Caring and capable leaders that inspire others to reach for their dreams.
Building transit where people can live, work, and thrive.
Faiths leaders embrace the most vulnerable
and great cultural and artistic expression and programs.
Jobs that lead to livelihoods.
Kitchen and pantries that feed the poor everyday.
Meaningful civic engagement and dialogue
and daring ideas that become our new norm.
As we pass over the threshold into 2013, I bring all of these inspiring moments with me, and I aspire for more. I continue to work for a bigger vision of equity and justice, for what the future can hold for all of us. I hope for a year that brings:
Lawmakers who find the courage to compromise, find the center, and leave the fringes.
Where everyone will have the right to love and marry whom they choose.
Where all dreamers can be free to uphold the best of American values.
Where we are able to serve all those with chronic illness, especially those with mental illness.
And that the youthful civic movement will have wind under their wings.
I invite you to continue to invest with us in the change we know is possible. On behalf of all of us at The San Francisco Foundation, I want to wish you a very Happy New Year. And we look forward to working with you in 2013 to make the Bay Area the best place it can be.