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VACCINE REPORT
- 74.1 percent of Californians who are fully vaccinated
- 55.9 percent of Californians who are boosted
- 87 percent of San Franciscans who are fully vaccinated
Verizon announced the three winners of its inaugural Climate Resilience Prize, awarding $500k to scale solutions that are focused on reducing climate change impacts on communities.
Twitter’s new anti-abuse tool, Safety Mode, will be beta-tested in a few countries like the U.S. to give users a set of tools to defend themselves against toxicity and abuse.
As a part of AT&T’s 2035 Net-Zero Goal, the telecom company expanded its commitment to sourcing renewable energy with new solar power purchases from Vitol.
LinkedIn introduced a new feature to block political posts from the user’s feed.
Spotlight Impact Story
Google is creating a $100 million fund to sponsor an ambitious project to expand effective skills training and job placement programs for low-income Americans. Google will work with three nonprofits—Year Up, Merit America, and Social Finance— to target a big problem: how to find, train, and create paths to good jobs in the modern economy for the nearly two-thirds of American workers who do not have a four-year college degree.
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SAN FRANCISCO AT A GLANCE
- Mayor Breed released her multi-year Children and Family Recovery Plan, a Citywide strategy for COVID-19 recovery for San Francisco’s children, youth, and families.
- Mayor Breed announced that through a $2.3 million investment to the African American Revolving Loan Fund, 51 San Francisco businesses will have their loans forgiven.
- The Board of Supervisors voted to place a $400 million Muni Reliability and Street Safety Bond onto the June 2022 ballot.
CALIFORNIA AT A GLANCE
- Governor Newsom filed an amicus brief in the UC Berkeley enrollment case, arguing for college access and affordability.
- Governor Newsom announced a package of gun safety legislation to expand the state’s nation-leading protections against gun violence and hold the gun industry accountable.
- Governor Newsom unveiled the SMARTER Plan that focuses on continued readiness, awareness, and flexibility to guide California’s pandemic response.
- Governor Newsom announced more than $116 million in funding for seven Homekey projects, providing 387 housing units for people experiencing homelessness.
SUPPORT OUR SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY
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