8:45 to 10:00 am
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts- Screening Room 

701 Mission Street, San Francisco 

To RSVP: Email info@yerbabuena.org

• John Updike, Director of Real Estate, City of SF, answer questions about the shift of the Redevelopment Agency
• CurrenC SF Program, from Jacon DuMez from the Office of Financial Empowerment, City of San Francisco
• Yerba Buena Community Benefit District: Arts in Dialogue - see below for more detail
• How Weird Street Festival (Sunday, May 13th) for festival and street closure info from Laird Archer, Community Relations
• YBCA programs and an exhibit walk through
•  Meet and greet with others in the neighborhood!
  
   

Arts in Dialogue Info
The Yerba Buena Community Benefit District (YBCBD) kicks off its exciting new monthly discussion and performance series Yerba Buena Arts in Dialogue with a provocative look at
“How We Date Now” in the age of Google. An expert panel from San Francisco’s single scene will discuss how the proliferation of dating websites, matchmakers, and instructors that teach the art of meeting your mate have changed how super-wired San Franciscans find companionship.
 
San Francisco Appeal Founder/Editor Eve Batey will moderate a panel with Sex & Technology Expert Violet Blue, OkCupid Labs Chief Strategy Officer Nick Abramovic, Dating and Lifestyle Coach Jesse Starlight and LGBTQ columnist Oscar Raymundo.
 
When: 7pm – 9pm, Thursday, March 15th
Where: W Hotel, 181 3^rd Street, 4^th Floor Pool Lounge
Tickets are $5, please call (415) 644-0728 to make a reservation!


CurrenC SF Info
CurrenC SF is a new direct deposit initiative from the San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment. This initiative will empower San Francisco’s nonprofits, businesses and workers by helping them adopt modern, innovative payroll solutions. Our goal is to  achieve a fully electronic, paperless payday, helping to bring thousands of San Francisco households into the financial mainstream and reducing reliance on high-cost check cashing services. We are joined in this effort by key partners including the SF Chamber of Commerce, United Way of the Bay Area, and Small Business Administration.

CurrenC SF is an extension of the City's pioneering program Bank on San Francisco, which has provided over 72,000 free or low-cost bank accounts to low-income San Franciscans (and has spread to more than 100 cities and counties nationwide). CurrenC SF is the next step in designing an effective framework for increased financial stability and better access to healthy financial institutions through a fully electronic payroll. Additionally, moving to direct deposit and paperless pay can save employers money and improve productivity,as well as benefiting the environment by reducing waste and pollution.

• Thursday, April 5, at the Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission Street.  Hear from Executive Director Grace Stanislaus about the Museum and it's exhibition and hear about the upcoming energy around America's Cup as we hear from David Perry. 
  On View: COLLECTED: Stories of Acquisition and Reclamation, includes over 100 art works, historical books, journals, sheet music, manuscripts and posters from The Collection of Alden and Mary Kimbrough, The Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum and The Melvin Holmes Collection of African American Art, each notable for the stories it conveys about the contributions made by people of African descent to American history and visual and material culture, and for the aesthetic choices and socio-political strategies the collectors used in acquiring, reclaiming, and revaluing their images, identity, stories, and cultural objects.  The exhibition and accompanying programs were made possible by the generous support of the Do A Little Fund and by the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation. On view from October 7, 2011 to March 4, 2012.
• Thursday, May 3rd, Yerba Buena Skating Center, 750 Folsom Street- topics TBA
• Thursday, June 7th at One Hawthorne, 1 Hawthorne - topics TBA