Successful AFA Policymaker Briefing at City Hall

On behalf of the Afterschool for All Advisory Council, we want to thank participants for making the October 21st policymaker briefing in City Hall such a huge success.


It was a great event:

• We had representatives from four Board of Supervisors’ offices (Mirkarimi, Avalos, Weiner and Sup. Jane Kim herself), one Board of Education member (Dr. Murase), aides from Assemblymember Ammiano and Ma’s offices, and Mayor’s Office staff in attendance. (All of the BOS and BOE members who were unable to attend received a packet of information from the event and an invitation to contact us for more information.)

• The room radiated the magic of afterschool with a mural and table top artwork from Opportunity Impact and Lights On Afterschool lightbulbs created by afterschool participants hanging from the walls – all speaking volumes about how creative, educational and engaging our city’s afterschool programs are day in and day out.

• Superintendent Garcia and the Mayor’s Education Advisor Hydra Mendoza kicked off the briefing with strong opening remarks about the importance of afterschool for all of our children in the city.

• AFA Council members did a fantastic job explaining the purpose of AFA, why afterschool is important in San Francisco, and our AFA efforts to tackle access and quality. The program sparked lots of interesting questions and dialogue among the attendees.

The event would not have been such a success without your contributions, so thank you!! A special thank you goes to Melanie Hopson who coordinated all of the logistics for the event. Additionally, a sincere thank you to Natasha Hoehn and the Silver Giving Foundation for their generous grant to the AFA Advisory Council which helped support this event.

Thank you again for making this event a reality and for helping ensure our policymakers understand the importance of afterschool