I know right it's such a good metric. So Kira did so I was just a lot of the folks who were at the this meeting are people who are looking at the list who've been involved with d3 for a while but I do think verbally is was around really fast is good because then that it also allows them to hear your voices and ID and just a reminder yeah versus being something doesn't waterfall is I think is fine and comfortable way of capturing what people are thinking.
Yeah, I didn't I you know, cuz I was trying to think about the jam board but then I'm like, there's so many things in the agenda. So I figured like the Zoom waterfall, which is something I just learned recently would be a good way to like,
what does that work? It's just that everybody just put something in and it's sort of like that. It's not like it's
it's gonna be it's more on the back end. It's gonna be gonna have to like yeah, let's do it after but I know your voice is really low how's that? President music?
Yeah, I think
I cut the music a little bit because I was it was kind of distracting trying to talk over the with y'all. But um, I was gonna say, Yeah, we have we have one person who's joining us, I think just might be new. So I think I think it makes sense to go around and
yeah, that sounds good.
I'll not not even jump on and I'll keep playing music. Yeah.
Awesome. Great. Looking forward to it. I think set a compass is maybe going to be off screen she's not so then you're down the street from me and I haven't seen you forever. And now then this is like and I probably seen ID and
technically, I'm not down the street from you. I'm in the mission. I don't
you remember because you're doing the remodel your house? Yeah. I'm in the mission right now. From Kevin. We can still get together. Not that big of a baby.
Know Michigan's favorite morning with a timely group. Morning, everyone. I guess it's afternoon if you're not in state
so we'll get started in just a couple of minutes. Welcome to the C three our first quarterly meeting 2022. Thank you Kira for just making it appear the tiger we feeling brave and bold, courageous and a needed we'll wait just a couple more minutes. I'll be an eye
want to drop the music today I don't know about the rest of you. It took me like almost a year and a half to get my picture on my blank screen when you're a doo doo. And I kept thinking this looks so good. And then eventually I was like, no, no like you know, get your text sites that little ones together. The Welcome welcome. Anything you want to hear before we jump in a couple minutes here. I see.
Basically everybody and people welcome
wait a couple more, I think just a minute or two. Because what we want to do is do some some quick introductions and a little bit of what are some of the interests of what we want to explore at this table in plenty plenty to Live Meeting Notes. Thank you putting that in the chat
should I guess who waited another sample base? Yeah, I mean, I don't want to hold too much but it's also good for to have a good number of people as we're doing the intros.
Yeah, it looks like you are still signing on.
Yeah, let's give it a minute. How's everybody's I was gonna say what What day are we in? It's Wednesdays right? This is our C three days of our mornings so happy to see everyone Yeah, I think if you're if you're okay with a team G sir. Team G Sir, let's and V let's let's get rolling. Hi everyone. I am Tessa rock Khajuraho and I am Senior Program Officer for the power pathway at the San Francisco foundation. I'm also one of the co chairs for the California Immigrant Integration initiative table. This is no I've just completed three years. I think I took over from U knob and if I'm not forgetting this it's a it's been some years I stayed on an x ray usually it's a couple of years but um, I know most of you and there's some new faces it's really great to be here together. But I wanted to do is to suggest that we'll go and do some really quick intros for folks just to reacquaint themselves with each other. And reconnect. I just want to note that you know this is there's been so much transition in all of our lives and in the world and in the GCIR team. I mean we have IBM we have Cairo here and and the work is still as critically needed and as important as it's ever been. So to thank you for being here. Thank you for continuing to build the immigrant rights and ambition and Civic Engagement movement and the work locally, regionally, statewide, nationally, in your different capacities. And so we're going to doubt what I'm going to just do is I've introduced myself, so I'm going to kick it to the next person and then let's just you know, people can, you know, pop in. And we'll go through this very quickly. And then we're going to move into our meeting. So welcome and Cairo. If you would just introduce yourself and then maybe call on the next person because I think we can all see each other. That's going to be quicker. Thank you.
Yeah, awesome. Hi, everybody. It's good to be here with all of you. My name is catoe Mendez. I'm the director of state and local programs here at GE sir. Based out of Boston so we're finally getting some some warm weather which is like 40 degrees for us. It's really exciting, but I'm still kind of cold. And I Yeah, I'm just excited to be here and I'll pass it to Mary.
Morning everyone. So happy to see everybody's faces again. My name is Mary Cruz. I am with the turkey Foundation. And yeah, happy to see everyone and I will tap on noggin.
Thanks for sharing
novena with Zellerbach Family Foundation, I manage our immigration portfolio here. And happy to see you all I am going to pass it on to Dan.
event to say so your pronouns and cities as well as organization, okay,
she her hers and I'm in San Francisco. Dan.
Hi everyone, dance with him with the Haas Jr. Fund and I am in Sacramento. Good to see everybody and let's see I will pass this over to Nancy.
Good morning. I'm Nancy wealth sack. Van live in sales from the rock foundation in San Francisco. We fund legal services and social justice in Northern California. She her hers and I will pass it to Ivy. I can learn good afternoon, everyone. I'm Ivy city. I'm the vice president of programs at Chester and I'm based in Fairfax, Virginia and DC the DC metropolitan area and I'll have to pass
Good morning everyone. I'm Tara Weston pronouns she her hers and I'm with the California Endowment. I'm the program manager on two of our teams and that's our statewide health team is all as our South Regional team. So happy to be with you here today and I'll turn it over to Stacey.
Good morning everybody. My name is Stacy MA and I'm with the gravity Foundation. She her hers. I'm in Berkeley and just happy to see everyone so good morning. And I will pass it over to Kevin. Thank you Stacey. Good morning. Everyone can never see him for Nance, Senior Director of national currency based in San Francisco. It's nice to see Ron and pass to did you get it
okay, yeah FastFit your words blocked out right when you said my name. I'm good morning everyone. Patti Angela watching with the marine Community Foundation. She her my pronouns and the name says it all we're based in Orange County. Let's see. I will pass it to Ana. Hi, good morning, everyone. I'm Anna Zacapa. It's my first meeting today. So thank you for letting me join. Thank you Cairo for for making it happen. My pronouns are she her? I'm based in San Francisco. I've worked with many foundations in the past and I currently, you know, on my own individual capacity have the Cambados Family Fund. I'm very interested in in learning more about what you are all supporting and find ways that I can can support alongside with you so thanks for this opportunity.
I think the the last question now, I can
go next and maybe I see it Angelica as well maybe after me. But hi everybody being one with the Weingard foundation. I'm director of special projects and communications based in Los Angeles and so privileged to co chair the C three table along with Tessa so really excited to be here with you all today. Am I right are we is Angelica I don't know if you're on the audio but invite you to introduce yourself as well.
So I should have done like a little Yeah, like a little two words. At the beginning that this is just our otter and it captures all our note taking so this happens like every Zoom meeting so
I love it. I have a mascot, right where otter is our mascot. So um, the one thing I wanted to just acknowledge as we go forward is that my first meeting was in 2007 with the C three table and I remember I'm trying to even visualize it and it was very, very small and GCIR had just launched this table and that's pretty amazing when you think about the number of years and that there's some of us who've been here throughout that time some you know on us here for the first time, but this is a this is a space that has held strong and has been really important in growing our philanthropic commitments and our collective action and there's some really exciting work to be hearing about today. So we're glad to unite as coaches to welcome you to this space. Before I hand it over to the there was a suggestion of we you know, we can go I'm gonna take us through the agenda really quickly. Does everyone have a should have a copy of it? I don't know if it's been dropped into the chat. Yeah, but so so our meetings are an hour and a half you take a break when you need it. So we'll be done by noon at the at the latest. We're gonna have a California power building conversation. And Timmy Liu from was executive director of API force and API force education fund that we will will introduce shortly is going to take us into a conversation around civic engagement and immigrants civic engagement, specifically AAPI experiences and research and the work that's being planned going forward, Kevin's plan to briefly get us some information on national policy. And we're then going to have a learning you know, partly, you know, a report on the California dignity for a campaign for California. And it get this wrong. California for campaign for dignity for
comprehensive good for families fun. Yep. For
some reason, that one's really c d f f for short is going to be a presentation with all Oh sahzu And then you know, we have we have some time program there. Some of us are contributing financially to it others are supporters, it's really going to be interesting to be able to hear about the the work and so you know, there's it's going to be a very rich and and you know, full meeting but we really hope that folks will, you know, ask questions and put them in the chat and participate fully despite being zoom split, you know, in the Zoom context. And if there's a note here if you have any questions or action items to put them in the chat. So without further ado, what I'm going to ask is, if you step back and think about this table, you think about quarterly meetings we're gonna have because of the conference, the convening. We're gonna have three quarterly meetings and so one of the things we want to do is test the waters to see what are some of the topics that you are issues that you most want to when we're together as a full group, unpack in 2022 or go deeper in so take a moment and and you know, you Oh, you open up your zoom I guess this is called a zoom waterfall for for the purposes of being able to then capture those ideas, and then the staff and the co chairs can can work on programming. So let's just take maybe it's a time for music, and then everybody just take a couple minutes and put your put your interest. What do you most want to go into depth on in this coming year at this table? Okay, little music and then we'll come come back and be we'll pick up the the meeting facilitation. Someone's got to kick off the waterfall it's drying up unless we can get some water flowing. Here
we go. You need ideas you can also just follow it in chat. Kathleen Munch county welcome we're just putting in what are the topics you most want to explore this year in 2022? We're seeing voter engagement we're seeing DACA pathway ships narrative change order climate change in migration, language access and migration. How do we link immigration work in the US with current conditions opportunities in countries where immigrants are coming from sample Central America Thank you Ana. Racial Justice and immigration refugee resettlement, Nancy minor change and immigration here on the ground experiences around leading or supporting immigrant rights. Immigrant immigration. Thank you. Great Ideas y'all keep it coming.
Pace building movement building, community building among colleagues. Immigrant Justice taking the lead of community organizing basic building words economic mobility and workforce development.
As you think of it, feel free to pop these into the chat y'all and I'm going to hand it back to me so we can continue to do the go forward with the meeting. I don't know if two meters here yet. But I'm gonna I think I'll hand it back to you. Maybe thanks everyone. Sure
up Cairo may be an update from you. It looks like we're still waiting on Timmy.
Yeah, we're still waiting on Timmy. So why don't I just share a little bit about the GCIR convening in time and then as Timmy comes on V then you can set up the grounds. So hi, everybody. I'm not sure if you all I'm sure if you're aware but our themes for the convening is power, promise and transformation. We're really really excited to be bringing folks from across the country in Houston in May from May 10 to the 12th that holds hotel Zaza. I wanted to be able to just share with you all real quick thank you happy to share with you all real quick just a bit of our themes for the year I mean for the for the convening. And a little bit of what we're thinking. One second Yeah, so, as I mentioned earlier, it's our themes are power, promise and transformation and we're really excited to be honing in on uplifting the efforts, the cross solidarity efforts that are happening from the immigrant rights movement to the racial justice movement, to the LGBTQ movement, been able to uplift incredible work being done in Houston being done in Texas against a lot of the heinous policies right that are that we're seeing in real time. be enacted, as you all saw recently with the with the governor's attack on trans youth. And so really, at the core of it all is power. Power is the central theme. And it will be the theme we come back to every step of the way throughout the entire convening. We wanted to make sure that you all knew that registration is opening next next week on May on March 8, so please be on the lookout for that. And we're taking all of the COVID protocols and making sure that folks feel safe. Making sure that the that the hotel is taking all the steps so that folks feel safe. And you know, just really yeah really excited to have everyone there from across the country to be able to strategize to be able to build together. I don't know IV if there's anything that I'm I'm just sort of giving like an overview but if there's anything that I'm missing and just wanted to make sure that you all were aware of sort of what we're thinking for for the narrative arc for the convening, but also to let you all know that the registration is opening up next week.
Yeah, I can just add, we're very excited to highlight all the amazing resistance work that's being done in Texas. Do you think of California and Texas as being mirrors of each other you know, in our country, Texas, has really found a groundswell of power building groups in urban areas throughout the state who are trying to do whatever they can to resist the the Animus that is coming out of the governor's office and an even in some localities. And so in addition to the theme that we wanted to share, like the site visits, we're actually offering two blocks of site visits, to really get out the hotel and be in Houston and highlight the incredible work that's being done by local leaders on the ground and so we really hope to see all of you there. We're capping registration at 175. So first come first serve. And yeah, I want to be in community with all of you in person and not just in your zoom boxes as beautiful as it is to see this mosaic would love to be able to see all of you there.
Thank you so much Ivy, and it looks like we to me has a joined us. Welcome to me and so maybe we can transition to the next part of the agenda. Unless there's anything else you wanted. To share in terms of the GCIR convening.
Before we transition the for those who've never gone to GCIR convening, they are the best, they are fun, they're really great community building and I know it's a little bit treacherous to think about the travel part of this but 125 Amazing folks from around the country just Just sayin.
And it will be so wonderful to see folks in person again. So ditto to that. So we're really excited to welcome to me, Lou, to join us today. And you know, to me before you joined we were talking about different areas of interest and a number of people mentioned power building and base building and civic engagement. So it's a wonderful to have you here with us today. To me, is going to share with us your typically I think many of us in the GCIR space have been talking about immigration policy, you know, immigrant rights and to me is really good to share with us this perspective of civic engagement, looking at immigrant communities and what immigrant voters are engaging with interested in building around so really a power building perspective. I'll share a little bit about you to me of that is okay, so to me is the founding executive director of AAPIs for civic impairment or AAPI force, as well as AAPI force Education Fund. organizations dedicated to building the political power of Asian American and Pacific Islander grassroots communities for racial and economic justice. He brings 15 years of experience in community organizing political campaigns, and voter data management having previously worked with a pen among a number of other organizations. So Timmy is going to share with us for about maybe 1510 1015 minutes and then we'll open it up to q&a. And discussion from the group. Does that sound right to me?
Yeah, that works for me. And I think I have some slides to share. So I don't know if I should share. Yeah,
I think you should be able to share screen so please feel free to go ahead.
Okay. I'm going to do that by giving away. I just wanted to start by thanking the Intesa for the invitation. It's also nice to see Stacy, also on the call grupo de has been a supporter of epi force before as well. And give me a moment, I can figure out my slides situation.
Maybe while you're doing that, to me, I'll add that. That to me is also a member of the steering committee, I believe of the million voters project. That is a statewide people of color, led political alliances, working to build on civic engagement among communities across California.
Yeah, thanks. And thank you for that for that introduction. So, yeah, I want to just kick off this discussion by just sharing a quote from a mentor and, and friend who was a big part of my growth as an organ as a young organizer at the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, and that's formed an opera cert. Right here. TorME was one of the first Laotian refugee families was a part of the one of the first red Laotian refugee families to settle Richmond, California. And as you can kind of see on that map, that's actually a map representing all the Superfund sites in West Contra Costa County. A lot of these are affiliated with the Chevron, Chevron refinery there but but not all right. And so one of the things that I learned from TorME through working with him and a building the sort of or doing the organizing work at APEN, for 11 years was that this quote that if you're not a participant in democracy, then you become can become a victim of it. And I think this is a really important lesson for me as I work in organizing people of color and minority communities. That that democracy in itself as an objective standpoint is is not in itself a good thing for our communities, unless we are wielding and have power within that structure. Right. And so, I think that's a lesson that I take to heart in the work of API's for sipping empowerment and I believe for sure also through the work of million voters project and the kind of coalition's we're trying to build. The The next slide is, that is me on the lower right, at the age of like nine or 10 This is like 1991. This was shortly after my parents became citizens. And this was right before I took on my first political job as the household policy and political director. And I think this is a fear if you come from any kind of immigrant or refugee family this might sound super familiar, is um it's the refugee kids who read the mail, right and and in this sort of, like, rolled by my parents after they became citizens, they took the job of voting and citizenship extremely seriously. Right. They came to the US as refugees from Vietnam, settled in Southern California in in the early 80s. Right and in addition to reading the mail, I read the voter pamphlets and I have to help them choose which of the presidential candidates in 1990 to serve their interests as working class, poor Asian folks, best right? And so I, I did what I what they asked me to do, which was read the mail, do the analysis and and that year, I ended up voting for Bill Clinton twice at the age of like eight or nine and I have been, I have been voting and doing political work since then. I share this story in this picture to embarrass my sisters. I also share this story in pictures so that you get a feel for what it's like to work in Asian American and many Pacific Islander communities. Right. And this is this, this is the sort of role that a lot of young folks in our community take on. And at the core. What API forces about is making making the jobs of kids like myself and my sisters a little bit easier, by giving our families our community members the tools in the languages that they speak to understand how to make the right decision for their communities and politics. Okay. This is this is API force. We are a statewide network of Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations. We work this is a map showing our six steering committee organizations. These are the organizations that founded API force that decided that we that we that these organizations could not build the power that they needed to move progressive policies at the state level, together, without without building something together. Right. And I think I'm, I have benefited from the foresight of founding organizations like a pen and CPA that saw that, that they could and needed something that was bigger than their individual organizations. But that could also seed and support the emergence of new organizations working in the civic engagement space, right? And so, CPA has a long history of doing this work as a pen. Through my work at a pen we helped kickstart the civic engagement programs of Hmong Innovating Politics that has grown into a statewide organization spanning Sacramento in the Central Valley.
Adding new partners, Filipino advocates for justice and Filipino worker centers and client roles and action. And so you all may be familiar with these organizations is basically some of the powerhouse Asian American organizing groups in the state. Right. And, and that's not all. I think a big part of our initial strategy was that this would be a coalition that that integrated both grassroots organizing, civic engagement, but also 501 C three and 501 C four strategies and this is a lot of logos. I'm showing you all but like, an easy way to think about it is like the organization CC on the left side that's affiliated with the API's for Civic Empowerment Education Fund. These are the 501 C three entities and organizations that we work with our steering our core steering committee members on the upper right organizations that we've been working with over the last several years to build up their capacities and programming on the lower left, right that span the state and also really importantly in emerging centers of Asian American populations and organizing in San Diego, Orange County and the Central Valley. All right. And then on the right side, you see organizations affiliated with our C four organization API's for Civic Empowerment, right? These are all organizations on the sea floor side that are advancing and advancing policies that benefit the communities endorsing candidates that support our our communities, right. And in other ways. This is sort of a space that our organizations are are building and in some cases, matching the sort of political influence and power that traditional power players and state why politics like unions, environmental organizations, in other words, other orgs like sort of play, right, and then affiliated sort of broadly on both fronts is our multiracial people of color led coalition million voters project and million voters project Action Fund, of which API force has served since the very beginning of MVP as an executive committee member and as leader basically anchoring Asian American and Pacific Islander outreach. Okay, so that's like, all the organizational forms, right? That we laid out. So what is it that we do and how do we connect it? All right, and I think to illustrate that, I'm going to pull out a couple of reports that we did recently. The first was a report that surveyed API civic engagement organizations across the state and indeed across the country, right. And I think some of some of the things that we noticed and saw was that, like, what our organizations were up against right, is basically a system of voting that was never built to include us, right? And it was only built to include API's, begrudgingly. Right and so, so knowing that in the last few years, they've been last shifts in voting procedures and timelines. Those are things we needed to communicate to our communities. Implementation of language access was always a consistent problem in our communities and in the gaps that the state or counties left, right. It was all kinds of organizations that filled that, but also knowing that these issues of voter suppression, intimidation and misinformation are also affecting us in California. And it's not just sort of like so called in the red states or wherever else that we're seeing right and that the at the core, some of the best work that we do is around talking to voters one on one in the languages they speak in, in the cultural spaces that they frequent. Right. And a lot of times our kinds of organizations are asked to serve as representatives and influence elections administration, and we play that role as well. And the last part of it, too, is just understanding the diversity of our communities. Right. There's been a lot of important policy movement around disaggregating data collection, but there is still this issue of officials and candidates for office, political institutions, really seeing our communities as a as a monolith, and as a whole, right in both their political attitudes, but also just how to serve them. Right. And that's an issue we see.
I'm going to point to a second report that we did and this is a report that we did get the support of the San Francisco foundation and grow Bodie also implement, which was a report serving suburban Chinese American voters and I bring this up, not because we only work it with Chinese American voters, we do not as a coalition, right? But this is what it looks like when we go deep into a particular community and understand the dynamics right. And we did the survey serving close to 3000 Chinese American voters in the suburbs, right of San Francisco, Alameda County, Orange County, LA County and Santa Clara Counties also. Right and this was a moment where this was during the sort of upsurge after George Florida mortar. And we asked Chinese Americans like what did you think what do you think about all of this? Right? And the thing that we learned was that even within this community, there was tremendous diversity, right? And that there was also a higher degree of sort of liberalism progressivism than we would have expected, right, like most of the voters that we talked to, and this is, you know, we waited the survey so that it fairly included immigrant voters and non speaking voters across geographies and across age, right, that most voters saw that like that, that fundamentally that there's a problem with policing in this country. Right. And so I just bring this up as an as an example of how, how when we go deep into a community, we really learn some insights that can benefit and also help us understand our organizing a lot more deeply. And I think the stakes are really high. On on, if you don't read Chinese, on the right is a very, very long text message sent by opponents of Gavin Newsom during the recall last last summer and basically, it connects Gavin Newsom to critical race theory and and basically gives like a laundry list of reasons why Chinese Americans should be opposed to Gavin Newsom why they should support the recall and support Larry elder. And I sort of raised this issue to note that when when I first started my political work in 1991 with my parents, there wasn't this kind of attention on Asian voters. Right. That that that people didn't really think of Asian voters as a bloc to be swayed or had significant political influence. And I think that is changing right. And for and it also points to the significance of organizations like ours, but also any organization sort of working and competing and immigrant communities, right that that we actually are in the process of contesting for the hearts and minds of our community members. And, and this is this is what we've got to work on that which is a lots and lots of zoom calls and just the range of young folks, the elders workers youth. These are the folks who are making 10s of 1000s hundreds of 1000s of phone calls every every election cycle, right but also doing year round organizing in their communities, organizing their peers, colleagues at work, etc. Right? To get them connected to to the organizations that were in that network, right, of API force. And I think, just to add to the tactics, right, it's like you're out organizing, but it's also you're on organizing and the civic engagement voter engagement, but also policy advocacy, work on redistricting. And as I pointed out before, like doing some deep research in our communities to help our help us be better, do better strategically, right, but also make the case to people who do have sort of institutional powers that investment there in our communities is necessary. So I don't know how I am on time. But I'm going to just pause there
and thank you so much to me. No, this is great. You're right on time and we have some time for questions and discussion as well. But just you know, wanted to thank you so much. As funders in the space. We we are in a range right in terms of what we fund, whether we fund civic engagement or interest in you know, experience and funding power building as well. But this is such a helpful overview to me, especially as we enter into this big civic engagement year. So at this point, wanted to open it up to questions. I think, Tessa, maybe you wanted to say something as well.
It just would love it to me if you would dig a little bit into some of what you learned in the suburban pilot project that we funded and others grew vodien other other funders supported? I think there's some really in terms of whether it's immigration status age, kind of what was surprising and what are you doing with that information and how is that making a difference in terms of strategy?
I think the the most important finding at that time was that we found that Chinese American communities were more divided on issues of affirmative action and economic justice than we would have thought right and then there is a particular intentionality around choosing suburban communities, right, because there had been a lot of attention pretty much starting since 2014. With the with the protests against affirmative action, right, the aggressive organizing in suburban Chinese American communities against affirmative action in 2014 that SCA five, right that, that this was a constituency that I think felt conservative, right. But also that we didn't have a lot of research and information on because at that time, like our community based organizations organizing Chinese American communities hadn't yet grown. They're organizing into those into those areas. Right. And so, you know, that that survey served a bunch of different interests, one of which was to help our organizations do some organizing in those regions and to help them understand what are the sort of like opinions right, that are there and I think we also found some, like, pretty unusual findings. Right, that one was that Orange County even though like we wouldn't normally think of themselves as as a bastion of progressivism, right. That that actually Chinese American voters were a lot more liberal in Orange County in Orange County than say like San Francisco. Right. Which was a particularly interesting learning and I think more recently, one of our one of the organizations we're in relationship with yet arise also released a report that found some similar findings for Vietnamese American communities and in Orange County also. And so that was a little surprise. But I think for any of us kind of doing sort of long term organizing work in our communities, right. It's like, there's a lot of assumptions about where we're at, right, but we also know that once we dig a little bit deeper, it actually gives us some tools from which like we can we can we can do kind of deeper level work. And so that was exciting. And I'll pull up a link to to an infographic that we have pulled together to I'll share that link in a moment. You know,
I seen I saw your heart and we were talking about Orange County. Of course when the Orange County Community Foundation and to me, I was just thinking about that Viet rise report with the Institute. And there's a quick question to me it looks like I'm just asked me about the source of the long Chinese text command.
Yeah, I had that text forwarded to me and it was sort of it was signed off by one of the Chinese American groups that were opposing that were pro recall. Notably, and because I'm also the compliance officer for my organization, more or less. That text message did not have the proper disclosures, saying who was from and who was paid for, but I think it was one of those examples of like, some of the grassroots efforts of, of sort of more conservative Chinese American groups really trying to grow go after our communities, right. And, you know, this was one text message. I wasn't particularly worried about the influence, right, have some of this work, because I felt like even as a whole, like some of these groups have not been able to penetrate like Chinese American communities more broadly. But but for me, the flag is like, folks are trying, right. And so then the question is, and I think one of the places where there are they're particularly effective, and it is noted in the in the text messages in Chinese is that if you weren't already paying attention to politics, and like what Critical Race Theory was in some of the debates, like you might actually be freaked out by some of this. Right? And I think some of the oppositional forces are also trying to link anti trans students policies, sort of homophobic policies also to try to link together this whole like, culture wars attack. Right and so anyways, I think that the that was that was the source of that text. I see. Chris, do you want to ask Chris? Yeah, Chris.
Feel free to unmute Chris Ross. I can can read your question too.
Oh, sorry. Yes. Sorry. I'm off camera. Good to see you all. And to me, I was just wondering if you had any reflections on the San Francisco School Board, recall, and you know, how devastating that was for many communities, but also it was a very complex issue and just any work or insights around the Pacific Islander community in San Francisco, because one of the recalled folks was phone Montigo is the first Pacific Islander ever elected in San Francisco. So just your thoughts and reflections on this complex issue? Yeah, a couple of thoughts. I think a lot of my thoughts are informed by the work of Chinese progressive Association Action Fund that is an art network. And then also some of the work of Empowering Pacific Islander Communities, which is like another organization we're working sort of deep partnership with. I think that there were a lot of people in politics, trying to claim victory, or to use that, that recall as a way to sort of lift up whatever policy or political objectives they already had. Right. And so I think a lot of national media picked up and particularly sort of right wing pundits picked up as like, oh, well, if for the first time I've heard in my life, they're like Sacramento or San Francisco is a bellwether for the country, unlike when has San Francisco ever been a bellwether for for anything, right? But just the idea that somehow liberal San Francisco is now throwing in against masking policies and oppose to CRT and, you know, critical race theory and all that and I think the or the, you know, the liberal excesses. I think a lot of that is overblown, I think from what it looked like the work on the ground is that there are a lot of really upset a lot of really upset parents that had some real concerns around some of the school board members and and to be honest, like some of the school board members, unfortunately did themselves no favors and actually put a lot of the community organizations in a really tough place, even as they were working with the school board members to try to advance more progressive policies. Right. And, and I think as for the impacts on Pacific Islander communities, I think it's a I think it's a pretty big setback. I also know for a fact that the Bay Area Pacific Islander, sort of like political and organizing communities a very tight knit community, right and, and will support and continue to support like, folks trying to assert leadership in school boards and elsewhere and I think we've got a lot of really solid Pacific Islander leaders in the South Bay, not just in San Francisco, but like in San Mateo and an Alameda city too, who are doing their best to sort of like raise their issues in their communities. Right. And so, I think, I think I think it was a it was it was a it was a tough it was a tough thing, because I think there were a lot of hope and aspiration connected to food. Food is both appointment and election. But But yeah, that's, that was a that was a that was a tough one to see. In that sense, right? And, and I think it also kind of spoke to a lot of at least the Pacific Islander partners in our network, right, the sort of need, still the need to build long term sort of like voter engagement infrastructure in our communities.
Thank you to me, and I see your chat about turnout being low as well. Any Oh, good to me?
Oh, no, it was I think the turnout was it's don't quote me on it was like 30%, maybe even under 30%. So it wasn't until it wasn't a ton of voters. Yeah.
Any other questions and if not, I had one maybe final question for to me. Oh, here we go. Great. How do you want to ask your question? Sure. Hi, Timmy. I'm with the marine Community Foundation. Just wondering about how you work with youth and how you see their role. You know, increasing or changing in the coming years?
Yeah, I think um, I think it's an important sort of the youth and young people participation in politics is definitely one that all of our member organizations really take to heart like almost every organization or network has some type of youth program attached to them or youth or young person organizing program. I think some of it is also just from like a pure like, this is where we're organizing and training like the next generation of political organizers is coming from right but also it's just a course a core sort of strategy of organizations in our network that, that that youth power is a significant and important aspect of of communion building. I think some of our organizations are also at a point in maturity where some of the the young people that had gone through their programs, maybe like 1015 20 years ago, are now becoming political candidates themselves or community leaders themselves. Right. And I think the you know, a lot of our work on the on the C four side is, are we building up the kinds of infrastructure and community leadership that also supports growth in these young people's leadership over time, right. And so in addition to supporting them when they were in high school and in their adolescence, are we also supporting them as they take on roles as community leaders, right, or continue on the roles that they played as community leaders as a young person, right, and so this, I think, a lot of what we think about and work on us as organizations right within the network is like, are we developing the appropriate leadership pathways so that our folks can can go from one place to the next but also still feel an organizational home and a connection to our communities? And and I think for a lot of folks who are now running for office, like they're running for office, not for like grand political aspirations they want to do right by their communities, right, and having our communities organized, right so that we're we're actually advancing clear policies and ways for elected officials to do right. is actually like a pretty important task that's in front of us and also a part of this aspect of building power.
And to me, we have just a maybe a final question from me as we round out. But as we think about this, this year, you know, whether it's API force or million voter project, I mean, of course, we're in a C three nonpartisan space here, but what would you see as the big sort of challenges and opportunities in terms of civic engagement as you all strategize for the year?
Yeah, I think a big a big opening for us is really deepening our understanding of voters and and complexified some of that, I think there is a way that traditional party politics tries to flan whole communities, right. And their opinions, and if you ever, you know, I mean? I think the the sort of like you know, there's there's this, there's this sort of like challenge around institutions trying to flatten whole communities into interest groups, right? That then make it easier for them either to for those groups to be excluded or to be included in like, superficial token sort of ways, right? I mean, I think like if you study the history of black politics in the US, like that's that that's basically that right. And even just the sort of like idea of like interest, like special interest groups and whatever else, right. And so So I think for the opportunities we have upcoming, is, I think, to complexify that picture, understand that our computing communities are, are diverse, right and to do effective organizing in these communities, to be able to consolidate them into not a monolith, right, but like a political bloc, right? That is in alliance with other communities of color, takes a fair amount of work and long term investment and I think this is where the like, frankly, I feel like funders and organizations on the C three side have a head start, because we actually don't have the bad practices of the political side of being short sighted and short term thinking only. Right that that with this type of long term organization building that that seems to be foundations and funders have invested in, right, that that we actually have the possibility to think long term and strategically and beyond the individual election cycle, even as organizations and networks like ours get more savvy on sort of playing the political field. It is in service for the long term objectives of advancing racial justice, economic justice, like gender, environmental justice, etc. Which which live like and need to have strategy long, long beyond just Election Day.
super inspiring. To me. Thank you so much for joining us. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of a longer term conversation in terms of power building at our table here. Want to give you a big thanks to me. And test ICU. Yes, as well
as some one who has been a funder of the work that Timmy is describing. I mean, we're just so honored to be in partnership and to be supporting, just supporting your work. I would just ask that you to me in the chat, put your contact information and spell out the AP APIs, floors and an education fan just so that folks can follow up with you because it's just, that's the whole point of these gatherings is for people to learn more and then to connect directly so I know we have to go on but thanks so much for making time and accepting our invitation to come speak with us today.
For sure. You're totally welcome. I'm glad to do that. And I'll stay on for a little bit to drop some links on some other things. And I'll just ask kindly if you ever see my sister's around, don't tell him that I shared this picture of them. They might. They might. They might have some feelings around that.
Yeah. Thank you. To me and again such such inspiring work. Tyrell, I'll turn it back over to you.
Yeah, no, I echo that I think was really inspiring and then just appreciating the fact that you know this we're in this for the long haul, right like building powers for the long haul. It's and we need to accept the ebbs and flows of this work as we're seeking to do that and, and how do we continue to expand our definition of power building, right? There's multiple ways of power building. There's multiple strategies to power building. And so I'm really excited to be able to hear from all out today around what they're thinking for the learning series that CDF is creating for the rest of the year and how CDF is continuing to uplift power building efforts and center part building efforts. And I'm happy to share with you all just a little bit about Ola and who they are so Hola. Suzie is a trans masculine queer of Edo and Yoruba descent who was born in Port Harcourt River State and resides in Houston, Texas. Although is the former director of the Black LGBTQ plus migrant project and has been a community organizer for many years, including working with the Transgender Law Center, the Audrey Lorde project that hudl was ovia, one of the first LGBT groups for African immigrants in the US queers for economic justice in the Soviet Aveda Law Project. Ola is a 2015 voices of our nation arts workshop fellow and his writings published in puggy cuisine, Black Girl Dangerous Black looks in the anthologies of queer African reader in queer Africa too. And that being said, I just wanted to pass on Tortola. Thank you.
Thank you, Cairo. I should edit that BIOS like oh, yeah, the writing stuff, isn't there. We're a different audience. Um, hi, everybody. It's really good to be here with you and see some familiar faces. Hey, Dan. What's going on Kevin? Trying to see who else I know. I'm sure other folks. You all look beautiful, all radiant. And yeah, this is a great group. And so speaking of power building, this is a really good moment to talk about the learning series, but just a little bit about me. You know, as I already said, you know, queer and trans Nigerian migrants been in in various movement for 20 plus years. I don't look it but I'm, you know, quite middle age. So you know, yeah, it's been a long time doing this, this organizing hustle. And I'm also a member of, you know, California dignity for families Fund, which is where this learning series comes about. Thanksgiving. And so really, with everything that's happening, and you know, with all the different you know, silos and our immigrant rights or Migrant Justice, movement, all the different barriers that you know, prevent, you know, all about, you know, many vibrant communities from coming together. This is an opportunity really to promote community building through political education. And public dialogue. This is the moment to get into some of those topics that you know, we've been talking about for some time, really, to publicize them a bit more. And to, you know, use this to start to break down those barriers that keep us apart. It's also a moment to, you know, visible eyes, various communities that are not have not been visible in this, you know, African rights movement, queer and trans communities, folks living with disabilities. Let's bring in a gender lens. You know, let's look at you know, US imperialism. That's why many of us migrants are here. You know, in addition to various legacies of colonization, and Western, you know, Western imperialism in general, you know, so let's talk about let's situate what's going on in our, in our, in this country around immigration, that's situated in the historical context, right. And so this learning series which is a six month offering, it's an opportunity to do that. You know, we're gonna be talking about queerness. We're talking about disability justice, we're talking about US imperialism and forced migration from different regions of the country or different regions of the world. We'll be talking about transformative justice, what does transformative justice have to offer the immigrant rights movement? Right, we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about Healing Justice, right in this moment of the pandemic and just like heightened trauma, what does Healing Justice mean for our communities, our organizing our movement and power building, right, so we're also going to talk about that. Let's see, what else can I share? It's taking place the fourth Thursday's of the month starting March 24. And that first session on the 24th of this month is on queerness and migration. So we're going to hear from folks from the Refugee Health Alliance and do you wanna from black immigrant collective in Minneapolis, from the Black LGBTQ migrant project, which is a national organization and from transgender education network of Texas, which is as you know, as the name implies, is based here in Texas, and really, you know, bringing the various experience of queer and trans folks as you're heading this way, at the border and while they're here in the US, and also talking about the context for queer and trans communities in general here in the US and how it connects immigration, so it's gonna be an amazing conversation. I hope you all can join and participate and take that knowledge to your organization's right to the people in your life. You know, there's so many ways in which you can use what you learn to continue to invest to continue to raise the visibility of these issues in these communities. So I will stop there. I've been talking a lot in case there any questions? Cairo feel free to chime in. Dan, you've heard about you know about this, so feel free to chime in. And yeah, I'll pause here.
I'll just share that. Out. You know, on the follow up documents, we'll include some of the dates for the learning series so that folks can have that. That information ahead of time.
Karen, like just I know that some of us I mean, I'm with the San Francisco Foundation, we're supporting the fund and there's some folks who are in that mix but I don't know if a little bit of a recap around what the goals are. And also beyond the training or in the the education series so that folks really understand what you know where this where this work is really going. And, and also that there's still need, and there's still you know, the importance of supporting.
So clarify the goals of a learning series. That's the question.
I think that I mean, to do a recap on the fun too. I just want to make sure everybody understands what the fund how long it's going on the scale of it, and the the outcomes, I don't know, Pyro or IV or Kevin do that. But then and then because that then connects back to the training series, and I think we all should just be really pushing it out into our organizations because we need more education. Within all of our organizations, I would say across the board and working in it
I just want to share that we've we're getting ready for our second our q1 2022 docket. So we're very much in that process. And we have had a learning framework earlier last year. Just sort of, you know what, what came out of the fund and hoping to have more of that framework this year as well in terms so that we can have that those learnings shared out to to various funders, I don't know Dan are all if there's anything else that particularly missing
I can I can share. So just to provide folks more background, this Fund was created what was it last? Spring was a year ago we created this with the goal of helping families and unaccompanied minors or entering to the southern border, get access to legal services, you know, social emotional support, integration services, and holistically and then we broaden the scope of the program to also include Afghan arrivals and Haitian refugees. as well. And so we did we run that in, I think in August of last year. And and this is a public private partnerships. It's also a coordination with the state of California. And it's been really productive mechanism to share information with the state and vice versa to to think about how we can close gaps and all these different areas that we're working on together. So you know, our grant making through the digging for various fun is also took into account the needs of Afghans who are searching for housing for example, the housing crisis really impacted the resettlement efforts there. The needs of unaccompanied minors has been interesting focus in looking at ways we can integrate some of the work the state has been doing with school districts. So like Oakland Unified has been doing great work with unaccompanied minors. We're funding programs there to help integrate and support unaccompanied minors, and they're all services including legal services. So that's been really a productive relationship. The governor have featured it as a public private partnership in the 2021 innovation report that he that he put together. I think it came out in December. So just it's been a fantastic collaborative with a bit local, with the state partners. And as Carol mentioned, there's also learning memo that's being produced that highlighting what we've collected along the way. So it's real time, you know, in about evaluation of what we're learning through our work with the state but also with our grantees. So they're reporting out in their own experiences and what they're the impact of this grant. So everything from trust based Philanthropy principles, and what's been working well is being lifted up being lifted up in the report, but also things like what's missing in structural questions are coming up. You know, folks have flagged how language justice is often an afterthought. It's never really planned for and grantmaking it's something that the state is also you know, tracking. So, you know, there's work there that we can definitely develop further and be much more intentional about. So just, it's been a fantastic productive friend and it's scheduled to sunset at the end of this year. So December. I think, Carol, you can correct me, but I think we've, what do we I think we've raised about 10 half million so far. The goal was 20 million originally, it's around two and a half. I think 20 foundations have contributed to the dignity for families fine so far. That's correct. And then, of course, now we have all those work, really amplifying a lot of the themes that are coming out through to the family spine, so we're really excited about that as well.
Thank you so much, Dan. I yeah, I need to be better as far as you know, being able to describe the process because it's just been so robust, and it's been enlightening on so many levels, as well as just a nourishing and healing experience as well. And so, yeah, I appreciate you giving that summary of the of the, of this grant making initiative. And I just posted the link for the registration for the learning series. I really appreciate you already sharing it. Please continue to do so. And yeah, that's that's all for me.
Oh, Allah. I have one quick quick question. So for those of us who are in California foundations, and I know you've transitioned in terms of role but are you available to come in and do staff learning with our organizations because I know we want to we want to drill down at the San Francisco foundation on black migrant issue. Work and investments and looking and being more reflective and being more strategic in and centering black communities and black migrants and refugees. So just so we all have a sense of that because Okay, there. All right, we got to
yeah, yes, you're singing my song. Yeah, please email me. For sure.
We will. We will. Oh, thank you. I prayed about the work what you're doing.
Thank you. Looks like I'm out.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much. Hola.
See you on the virtual streets. Take care y'all.
Awesome, and I'll pass it to a positivity
Thank you, Kira. Yeah, so as we as we move into the next section, this one is a very bittersweet one because we were talking about the co chair transition of Tessa, and, you know, Tesla's term actually comes to an end this year as co chair of C three. And so we wanted to take some time to appreciate Tesla's contributions. As well as talk a little bit about next steps. Tessa you will have some time to share as well, but I think we wanted to take some time first to just appreciate you. I can't think of a better co chair to have started at C three with a more generous, more. A co conspirator. CO collaborator, someone so strategic, and thoughtful and really mindful in terms of building up GCIR and C three and supporting me as a new co chair as well. So thank you so much for all of your contributions. And we know that we will continue to be working with you in many many different ways and whether through our individual foundations, the GCC three table and just in the movement in general. So I wanted to share just some opening words of appreciation. And I think other folks are eager to share as well. So I'll pass it on Cairo. Back to you. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, we do have a lineup of folks Tessa that just really appreciate and love you and would love to say a few words. So I'm going to pass that actually to Kevin because he has some words prepared to
Tessa, it has been such a pleasure and honor to work with you. And you know, you were talking earlier. You've been at C three since 2007, which certainly predates me and I remember you are one of the very first people that I got to know when I joined you, sir, sort of working with C three and I was just thinking of all of the folks that you've worked with at GE, sir, over the years, you know, during my tenure hooing and Stephanie and Melissa, myself and now Chiron you've just been consistently supportive and you know, we are a membership organization and we love our members. And we especially love the ones who are like so, so much in our corner and you're very much one of those folks who has always been super supportive of GCIR in the work that we do and you know, creating space for us to get entree into other spaces and really just encouraging people to be part of GCIR in the network. You also always really encouraged us to be very big picture and to be inclusive in thinking and always thinking, okay, there's this meeting over here talking about this, and there's this meeting over here talk about this, like, how do we like bring all the learnings together, make sure that everyone is on the same page and not left behind. That's always been a really good reminder for us. And um, you mentioned this earlier as well but it really bears repeating that you you did an extra spin at the wheel as you know co chair here as we sort of had the last chair tradition you kind of stepped up and said I'll do it again. And it's it's not no work to you know, work with the team to set up and facilitate these meetings. So just, you know, thanks all around for sort of how you showed up for GCIR for this table for communities and glad this is not like a good goodbye, what like acknowledgement of the role you've played and like we'll continue to see you in the space
didn't tell me you were gonna do all this y'all. I thought I got a box of sweets and
we wanted to keep it a surprise. I know we had not been also wanting to share some words.
Yeah, of course I couldn't let an opportunity pass by about showing my appreciation for Tessa. Um, I think we kind of just said this but and I correct me if I'm wrong test on this, but I think that you were really instrumental and actually setting up C three. I think that there in 2006 2007. It was you and a couple of other folks with Darnay really working on this and making this happen. And so we owe so much of this table and the learnings that we've been able to take part in really with you and I really see you as one of the OG is of the immigrant rights movement, especially in the Bay Area. I mean, I think about you, Mary and Lena, and deryni like working on this and so for me, you are like the original, you know, organizer, original gangster in all of this work. And what has been for me because I have a personal relationship with you Tessa is the mentorship that you have provided me and countless others in this space. I'm not only have you know I came in I was a fellow at the San Francisco foundation in 2008. Right when this had already, like just started setting getting set up and coming into this field not really knowing the context, the issues what had happened prior. And you really were so generous in kind in your ability to kind of impart some of that. But I think for me, what I've learned so much from you is really just how to work from your heart or lead from your hearts in that ability to really understand the nuances of what those issues are, but really to always be in relationship with the folks that you're working with to always listen and center immigrants and immigrant communities in the work and I really take that to heart and I think that I am the kind of grant maker I am because of so much of what I've learned from you during that time. Not only at C three but really at the San Francisco foundation to and because you're an organizer at heart, your ability to organize us around a bunch of different issues to give to different you know opportunities or challenges that have come up, and really also reminding us the privilege that we have in Philanthropy to and the responsibilities that we have to the work on the ground. And so I'm grateful for all that I've learned and continue to learn from you and just really grateful for the work that you have. The time the blood, the sweat, the tears that you've put into C three into really making this table what it is and I'm so happy to see you lead in the last couple of years and really kind of hold this all up and kind of finish with this pandemic, right like you've been able to do this during this pandemic too. And so I'm just so grateful and I love you and I adore you and so just want to thank you and appreciate you. That's it.
Thank you. Thanks to all of you. i It's you know how it is maybe it's when you're an organizer. You don't don't need to be always in the middle of something but behind the scenes to make sure things happen. And I guess the one thing I do want to say is we're all here for a reason. We all have a story. My mother was an immigrant from Havana and was and came as a teenager at 13 or 14 and I was I was raised with an immigrant mother and that was part of the formation of my political and my sense of who I was in the world and there's just isn't and I was in the immigrant rights movement before I came to Philanthropy in that work. Well, I will be involved no matter where I am and what I doing. I do want to be transparent with you though and say that that I'm actually going to transition from my current role at the San Francisco foundation because I don't this may be I may be with you in a different shape or form in the future. So it would feel really strange to not say that when we're all together and that's you know, that's just going to be coming out more publicly. And it's not bad news. It's just I really feel a call to be back closer to community to have these be these next years being my most aligned and clear impacts you know, and and to have a little bit of little break and a little more rebalancing with family as my as my kids are now 30 years old, and I've been in this work for a long, long time but I'm so not going anywhere to the work but I will not have the same hat in some months. And so I just want to say that I can think of a group that I would rather be in community with and it will be strange not to be in this mix if that's how that ends up being but perhaps my journey will find me back in a different with a different hat and a different role because I don't think we ever leaves the work this movement work is our work. It's part of who we are in the world. And so, thank you for the the partnership and for the just for the commitment because this has to go on like you know, I mean, my mother has been dead for some years now and if the parting parting words that I would want to say to you all is let us not just keep something alive during these challenging years. Let us let it grow and flourish. California is changing. We have a new California and we need to continue to build it wherever we are whether we're you know, and I'm not retiring. So you can talk to me offline about what what may be next but just to know that this is amazing work and G sir is an amazing affinity group and all of you continue to inspire each other in me and I think represent to the best of our ability. So onward. And thank you thank you for for the moment and also just for all the years and I can hardly wait to see what's next for all of us.
So I know I know you if you wanted to talk about the co chair role in the announcement, but I just wanted to see if there was anyone else maybe. I don't know if there's one or two more folks I wanted to share anything but I know SATA couldn't be with us today but she asked me to read you something which was do tests I'm sorry that we are not giving a proper send off with great food and warm hugs, and that I can't deliver this personally but my gratitude is no less heartfelt. You are an amazing leader Tessa thanks so much for all your ideas, your leadership, your wisdom, your passion is coaching for say three. Your work has been and will be continued to be felt by immigrants on the ground.
Thank you so maybe you can we can commit to meeting up at the GCIR convening and we can have a little send off or celebration there as well. But I'm Yeah, I just wanted to acknowledge the the chats as well and just filled with appreciation for you, Tessa
and I guess what I would also say is this is not a hard job, y'all. This is a great one. So if you are so we're going to, you know, as always an organizer, right. The reality is that we're going to need a co chair from Northern California from the central coast from the Central Valley however, we think about that. And we're going to be for the next couple of years. And so now is a great moment to think about sort of do you have that space in that sense of, of an interest and these amazing to work with and so I just want to say you know, put your however you all want to do this at GS G sir or send a message to B and to Cairo just to express your interest because if not now than later. And this This work is about all of us and the coaches are just to help facilitate and make sure that the time is well spent and I want to acknowledge Kathleen, who was the co chair with me before, but didn't amazing job and so whether wherever you are in the state, you know, all of you could be and could be co chairs at some point of this work. So I think we probably need to move on right there and thank you all for your beautiful words and appreciate all of you.
Thank you, Tessa.
Um, I couldn't ask for a better way to wrap up this meeting. I know we have 10 minutes left. And just wanted to, you know, this is my first q1 meeting. With you all with all of you and just really grateful that that you know, we're ending on this now. I know we have to mention I want to make sure that y'all have some some buffer time before lunch. Just wanted to share that. The next meeting is as Tessa mentioned earlier is not taking place in q2, but it's actually taking place in q3 to accommodate the convening and just the staff capacity around that but please be on the lookout for how we continue to engage folks throughout the year on on important conversation on power building or movement building. You know, I'm hoping to also engage in a mini listening tour and just, you know, get to know you all the more, you know, potentional level and just to learn how we can continue to create an incredible space with this table. So I don't know if anyone else has any final comments, but I just wanted to share that
and I can I also do a plug for the working group that's happening later on this month on the 23rd at 1030. I think I think something has already gone out around that Cairo. If it hasn't, we'll send it out very soon, but we'd love to have your faces.
Be part of that.
And it's going to be a really nice kind of segue from this conversation into that too. And I hope that we'll have an opportunity maybe to better coordinate the the C three meetings in the legal services group working group meetings too. So that things kind of flow a little bit better with each other to so 23rd of this month 1030 to noon, also I believe, so that's
great. Thank you. Thank you nothing. Anything else Cairo. So with that I guess I'll just a huge huge thanks to you all and of course to Tessa, again, if anyone has any interest in joining us in the C three co chair role, please let me or Cairo Tessa know as well. I'm sure she can welcome any conversations about the nature of the bowl, but we're looking for geographic diversity as we always do. So I would encourage folks to really think about it and to join.
I'm going to drop my email in here and be you could as well I mean, I know we're all connected in so many different ways. But just we really could use someone to step up in the in the near future. I mean, obviously the next meal is not till September, but just to what was just also talked about by novenas. Just like how do we knit this together have our ultimate impact in what Dan spoke about in terms of the Fund and, and there's just so many wonderful streams that need to be coming together in a confluence for us to have the kind of impact that we need to be having in our communities and across the state. So happy to chat and thanks again for all your kind words and thoughts and more than anything just for your commitment and for the work and your leadership that you're that you're exercising in in your work every day. And it matters
Thank you. Tessa quick question about your timeline.
Oh, so it's faster than maybe you might think. So I decided a little while ago that I needed to to make a personal transition. And then I'm in great you know the great shape with the foundation foundation is wonderful, but I just I needed a different construct for me for this next period of time. So I'm looking at options. Could be consulting could be a new role. I'm going to be probably in later part of June. I'm leaving the foundation by the end of the fiscal year and after I take some time for my daughter's wedding in May but I'll be very, very available full out until middle of May. And then I'm going to be um take a little bit of a tiny period of time. I don't tiny maybe it'll be a little longer than that. But um, yeah, a little bit of a break a little bit. Of a rest and but but you will see me in other spaces in places I'm sure but but I'm open to a lot of possibilities. Thank you.
Thank you, Tessa and of course all best with everything. We look forward to seeing you soon. And with that. Thank you everybody. It was wonderful to see you all today.
Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, folks. Have a good one.