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What exactly are you asking the business community to do for the center? Well, we're asking the business community in general here in San Francisco to live up to some of their commitments they have made in the newspaper and through other news media to get involved in

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the neighborhoods and the communities this summer to help some of the youth um reach some of the goals which they want to reach in those areas. We have been working here at State College with different student organizations. These student organizations have been working in the community

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for the last couple of years and we're asking the business community to help these student organizations this summer to continue that work through some type of funding. You don't mean in terms of jobs specifically though, no, we don't mean in terms of jobs these uh student

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organizations have been doing tutoring. They've been doing draft assistance, help. They've been bringing some of these kids from the high schools into San Francisco State on special programs that we have here at San Francisco State College. Students who don't normally qualify for San Francisco State College.

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So among other things, you've been tutoring those students very much so, very much so. And what's specifically can the business community do just fund you? Well, we need funding desperately for the summer. We uh we're involved with more than 2000 people in the community and these

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students need some type of assistance through funds to help that work to continue during the course of the summer. What has been your response? Well, the luncheon we called for today, we invited more than 50 different people in the business community. As of right now, only

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one company has seen fit to respond. That's Wells Fargo. Yeah. What is your response to this uh program? The Center for Innovative Education. Well, we were invited to attend this luncheon to, to be told what the program is. So we're just here to find out what

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we can. You've heard nothing thus far about it. No. Uh it seems that, uh you were the only one so far to respond. Well, we were happy to be here as a member of the business community. We thought we should be involved and find out what's

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happening.