About San Francisco
San Francisco is famous for its attractions: the majestic Golden Gate Bridge, iconic street cars, winding Lombard Street, and bustling Fisherman’s Wharf, amongst many others. However, there is far more to this world-class city than its attractions. It is the people, businesses, opportunities, and energy of San Francisco and the greater Bay Area that make it the ideal home for Reaching Out’s 10th anniversary conference.
The San Francisco Bay Area is a business mecca, bringing together the finance, technology, retail, marketing, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and non-profit industries. It is an innovator – the capital of the new economy – and home to Silicon Valley, world-renowned research institutions, and groundbreaking technologies. Dozens of the leading Fortune 500 companies are headquartered here, from investment and retail powerhouses to cutting-edge technology and biopharma innovators. Statewide, California is home to more Fortune 1000 companies than any other state in the nation.(1)
In addition to being a leader in the global business community, San Francisco is a beacon of diversity, particularly for the world’s LGBT community. According to recent statistics, San Francisco and Oakland were ranked #1 and #2 in the United States, respectively, in the number of same-sex couples per capita.(2) From Harvey Milk to Armistead Maupin and Alice Walker, the Bay Area’s success has depended on the strong bonds within its prominent, ever-growing LGBT community.
This synergy between business, culture, innovation and community make San Francisco the perfect for you to connect, build, and achieve as part of Reaching Out 2007.
