# Partnership for San Francisco **Stub.** The **Partnership for San Francisco** is a dues-paying council of chief executives that Mayor [[Daniel Lurie]] set up in **March 2025** to give "CEO-level views on policy" to City Hall. It is modeled on the Partnership for New York City. The co-chairs are [[Laurene Powell Jobs]] ([[Emerson Collective]]) and Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet. Former First Republic Bank president Katherine August-deWilde organized it. At launch the members included [[Sam Altman]] ([[OpenAI]]), Jony Ive (LoveFrom), Parker Harris (Salesforce), Richard Dickson (Gap), Michelle Gass (Levi Strauss & Co.) and Tony Xu (DoorDash), with about 20 more expected. Membership belongs to the company and passes to the next CEO. It was launched alongside the **San Francisco Downtown Development Corporation**, which Sixth Street co-president David Stiepleman leads, to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for downtown revitalization. ## Why it sits in this KB The Partnership is the formal channel for the CEO class that backs Lurie. Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective later gave $550,000 to his charter-reform committee (see [[San Francisco Charter Reform]]). The SF Standard's year-one assessment counted the Partnership among Lurie's accomplishments while noting its impact "has yet to fully materialize." Adam Lashinsky's critique asked the members to bring their workers back to the office. ## To expand - Full member roster and dues - Concrete policy outputs (permitting, office return, downtown) - Overlap between members and donors to Lurie's ballot committees