{"id":2350910,"date":"2024-10-04T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-official-behind-london-breeds-dream-keeper-initiative-steps-down-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T20:59:21","slug":"another-official-behind-london-breeds-dream-keeper-initiative-steps-down-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-official-behind-london-breeds-dream-keeper-initiative-steps-down-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Another official behind London Breed\u2019s Dream Keeper Initiative steps down &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanother-official-behind-london-breeds-dream-keeper-initiative-steps-down-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2350910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In 2020, San Francisco\u2062 Mayor London Breed initiated the Dream Keeper Initiative, which \u200caimed to redirect $120 million from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/looks-like-defunding-police-didnt-go-well-in-minneapolis-tx-gov-abbott-slams-city-council-after-new-funding\/\" title=\"\u2018Looks Like Defunding Police Didn\u2019t Go Well In Minneapolis\u2019: TX Gov. Abbott Slams City Council After New Funding\">police budget<\/a> to support\u200b racial equity\u200b programs, specifically targeting the\u200b black\u2064 community. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/global-security-initiative-proposed-by-chinas-xi\/\" title=\"Global Security Initiative Proposed by China\u2019s Xi\">initiative proposed<\/a>\u2063 to invest $60 million annually into nonprofit organizations and \u200dcultural programs. To date, the total budget allocated for the program has\u2062 reached approximately $300 million.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, scrutiny \u2064over the program has intensified due to allegations of mismanagement and \u200bconflicts of interest among city officials\u200d involved. Saidah\u200b Leatutufu-Burch,\u2064 the director of the initiative, and Sheryl Davis, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Commission, have both resigned amid these controversies. Davis&#8217;s resignation was particularly notable, \u200cas \u2064she was alleged to have a personal\u2063 relationship with\u2062 the director \u2064of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-cancels-keanu-reeves-over-tibet\/\" title=\"China Cancels Keanu Reeves over Tibet\">nonprofit organization funded<\/a> by Dream Keeper, leading to questions about\u2062 her \u2063oversight of the financial allocations.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns have been raised regarding the \u2063transparency and efficiency of the funding distribution, with accusations of waste and \u200cpossible corruption coming to light. In response to these issues, Mayor Breed has \u200dinitiated\u2064 measures to \u200ctighten \u200ccontrols over the program, halt new funding until a thorough review\u200b is conducted, and allow the city\u2019s top auditor to oversee the initiative&#8217;s finances, seeking to\u200b restore credibility and ensure proper use of funds.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Another official behind London Breed&rsquo;s Dream Keeper Initiative steps down<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1765901\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A second city official overseeing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"San Francisco\">San Francisco<\/a> Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/london-breed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"London Breed&rsquo;s \">London Breed&rsquo;s <\/a>signature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamkeepersf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"San Francisco\">Dream Keeper Initiative<\/a> is out of a job as allegations of gross mismanagement and abuse of power continue to surface.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Saidah Leatutufu-Burch, who was the director of Dream Keeper and reported to San Francisco Human Rights Commission Executive Director Sheryl Davis, is no longer at her post. The reason&nbsp;for her departure has not been disclosed, the <em>San Francisco Chronicle <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/second-dream-keeper-official-steps-down-19813719.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reported\">reported<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mayor London Breed, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott, and San Francisco Police Officers&rsquo; Association President Tracy McCray are seen at the Police Academy in San Francisco on Oct. 2, 2024. (Jessica Christian\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Davis was the first to go. She resigned on Sept. 13 at Breed&rsquo;s request.<\/p>\n<p>Stories by the<em><a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2024\/09\/12\/san-francisco-dream-keeper-initiative-sheryl-davis-james-spingola-nonprofit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;San Francisco Standard<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/sf-department-head-leave-absence-investigation-19761527.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;raised serious questions about program spending and management and led to the program&rsquo;s leader resigning under pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Breed said she was &ldquo;appalled&rdquo; by how the initiative was being run. She also said the city&rsquo;s top auditor is&nbsp;reviewing and controlling the finances of the&nbsp;department in&nbsp;charge of running the program.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Dream Keeper program was a citywide initiative that was supposed to inject up to $60 million a year into nonprofit groups and other organizations aimed at helping the city&rsquo;s black community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, Breed and <a href=\"https:\/\/sfbos.org\/supervisor-walton-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Supervisor Shamann Walton\">Supervisor Shamann Walton<\/a> proposed redirecting city funds from law enforcement to programs that promote cultural and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-those-2000-stimulus-checks-promised-by-biden-became-only-1400\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s How Those ,000 Stimulus Checks Promised By Biden Became Only ,400\">economic support<\/a> to the city&rsquo;s black communities. Seven months later, they introduced a more detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/business\/article\/Here-s-how-San-Francisco-plans-to-redirect-120-15980236.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"plan\">plan<\/a> and asked for a $60 million annual investment. So far, the city has budgeted about $300 million for the program. <\/p>\n<p>But recently, red flags have started popping up. So have&nbsp;questions about oversight and transparency over who gets the money, how it is distributed, and how it is used.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The program was supposed to be a shining example of how the city is giving back.&nbsp;Instead, it has become an example of wasteful spending, greed, and corruption.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Davis&rsquo;s resignation followed reports that she was in a relationship and shared a home with the director of one of the nonprofit organizations she funded, Collective Impact. Her attorney has since acknowledged that she made a &ldquo;mistake&rdquo; by not disclosing her conflict of interest on official forms.<\/p>\n<p>James Spingola is the director of Collective Impact. Davis personally signed off on a check for $1.5 million for the nonprofit group. In all, Collective Impact has received&nbsp;$7.5 million from the city.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very big deal,&rdquo; said Joan Harrington, a nonprofit ethics expert at Santa Clara University, of Collective Impact&rsquo;s filings with the state, in which no conflicts of interest were listed. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think there is a way to answer &lsquo;no&rsquo; with what was going on. &hellip; That is significant that the staff answered that question in a way that appears to be untruthful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Breed has rolled out tighter controls for Dream Keepers and has hit the brakes on new funding under the program without additional review. The Controller&rsquo;s Office has also taken a series of steps to audit the Human Rights Commission and the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>But Breed&rsquo;s attempts at trying to fix the situation have not stopped her political rivals in an extremely tight mayoral race from attacking her over it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, a candidate in the contest to unseat Breed, has requested hearings about the scandal. He also called Davis and Spingola&rsquo;s&nbsp;relationship &ldquo;very serious and deeply disturbing and can&rsquo;t be brushed under the rug.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will be utilizing the Board of Supervisors unlimited power of inquiry,&rdquo; Peskin said in an interview with the<em>&nbsp;San Francisco Standard<\/em>. &ldquo;To call public hearings and bring forward the controller and other oversight authorities to fully report and tell us the status of what they know and how they&rsquo;re going to thoroughly investigate this matter, get to the bottom of it and hold people accountable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" \"> <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, Breed&rsquo;s closest competitor, has called for a federal investigation into the Dream Keeper&nbsp;Initiative and Breed&rsquo;s role in it, and Daniel Laurie said Breed &ldquo;handed a blank check to her closest allies with zero oversight.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1765901\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1765901\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another official from London Breed&#8217;s Dream Keeper Initiative resigns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":2350911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/san-francisco-mayoral-debate.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[42377,36674,42378,32076],"class_list":["post-2350910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-dream-keeper-initiative","tag-london-breed","tag-official-resignation","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/san-francisco-mayoral-debate.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}