UCSF's last Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), created in 1996, was designed to guide the university's physical development through 2012. UCSF is now embarking on its next LRDP, which has an expected planning horizon of about 20 years. Community involvement is a key facet of this planning process. You are invited to attend the second community workshop on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. Get the details here.
From the Office of Shelly Tatum...First Asian American San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee honors the First Black Mayor of San Francisco Willie L. Brown Jr. at Closing Ceremonies of Black History Month on Tuesday, February 26th at 4:30 p.m. RSVP to D.R. Roberts. See details here.
March 2, 2013 Science, Engineering and Mathematics Link Inc Math and Science Career Academy hosts its 3rd Annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Career Fair and Exhibition. Click link for registration. Dave Clark of KTVU Channel 2, thanks for sharing this great community news.
Community activists David DeLuz of the Greater Sacramento Urban League; Betty Williams, of the Sacramento ACLU; Tyrone Netters of the Sacramento NAACP and Azziza Davis Goines and others will gather at Sacramento State on Saturday, February 23 to deliver a poignant State Of Black Sacramento address outlining the some of the good, bad and how to fix-it issues affecting African Americans in the region.
Your action can make a life changing difference for Kevin Weston, Bay Area Journalist and Mentor for many up and coming journalists. He is in need of a bone marrow match to help save his life. Kevin is African-American. Only about 8% of the nation's 10 million registered bone-marrow donors are Black, which makes his chance of finding a bone marrow match quite slim. You are the key to helping Kevin change those odds.
The City of San Francisco Honors Black History Month. See highlights of events honoring Veteran Journalist Belva Davis, Legendary Jazz Saxophonist John Handy and more.
CDA Consulting Group gives you news of the upcoming event: "Powerful Women of the Bay," March 14, 2013.
SF Filmmaker Jacquie Taliaferro highlights good news from the 49ers as Aldon Smith creates is Winners' Playlist for the GRAMMYs. Listen in on the Taliaferro inspired NAACP Wager. Will National NAACP President Ben Todd Jealous based in the Ravens' Baltimore come to San Francisco for Community Service? Super Bowl Sunday will Tell the Story.
The advice of financial expert Walter Brown Jr. is on the Internet via CNBC. Brown's
"Facing Foreclosure? "Don't Just Sit There-Act Now"brings home the reality of the foreclosure crisis in the first paragraph--"A shocking 2012 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, University of Chicago and Ohio State University estimates that over 800,000 foreclosures that were done between 2009 and 2010 were done in error ... much like a doctor amputating the wrong leg." Read More!
Four films that received significant support from the San Francisco Film Society's Filmmaker360 program have won awards at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Read More!