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Mayor Lee, AT&T Kick Off "SF Summer Of Giving" Supporting Nonprofits That Make SF Accessible And VibrantSAN FRANCISCO, June 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Mayor Edwin M. Lee and President of the Board of Supervisors London Breed joined AT&T at City Hall to kick off the "SF Summer of Giving" campaign, which will award $283,000 to eight community organizations over eight weeks in an effort to support and spotlight organizations that make San Francisco accessible and vibrant for everyone. Mayor Lee and AT&T California President Ken McNeely presented the first awardee, the Asian Pacific American Community Center, with $20,000 to expand their community and scholarship programs to uplift Asian and Pacific Islander communities in San Francisco and across the Bay Area. AT&T also announced that it will make additional weekly contributions of $20,000 or more to:
Every week from June 25th to August 14th, AT&T will highlight an "SF Summer of Giving" awardee and their contributions to San Francisco on Twitter at #SFSummerOfGiving. "This showing of 21st Century philanthropy by AT&T demonstrates an understanding of the needs of our City and our residents and lifting them up so they succeed," said Mayor Ed Lee. "These contributions have the potential to chane the lives of families in San Francisco through some great nonprofits that directly impact our communities and that help our residents share in the prosperity of our City." "Investing in our communities is not only the right thing to do, it's one of the smartest things we can do to help keep our communities accessible and vibrant," said AT&T California President Ken McNeely. "The 'SF Summer of Giving' is about giving back and lifting up the organizations and programs that lift up San Francisco." City and community leaders will join AT&T over the next seven weeks in delivering the remaining awards during the "SF Summer of Giving," and the campaign will be chronicled on Twitter via the hashtag #SFSummerOfGiving. *AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc. About AT&T Additional information about AT&T products and services is available at http://about.att.com. Follow our news on Twitter at @ATT, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/att and YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/att. © 2015 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the Globe logo and other marks are trademarks and service marks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. Reliability and signal strength claims based on nationwide carriers' LTE. Signal strength claim based ONLY on avg. LTE signal strength. LTE not available everywhere. *Global coverage claim based on offering voice and data roaming in more countries than any other U.S. based carrier, and offering the most wireless smartphones and tablets that work in the most countries. © 2015 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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