I’m Here is a public service cultural sustainability project. I’m Here’s mission is to provide people the opportunity to record, share and preserve the stories of their lives in San Francisco through our digital mapping project. We do this to build and strengthen connections between people and place, and to weave into the fabric of our city the understanding that everyone’s story matters. Each resident’s footprint is an integral part of the San Francisco ecosystem. Social and cultural sustainability are just as important as environmental sustainability in creating livable cities. By capturing diverse stories we want to highlight the rich urban experience worth sustaining, voice by voice. We organize stories by locations plotted onto our map. The dialogue of all different types of people is the key to understanding anything of importance. By understanding the stories of the people that make up San Francisco, we can understand the larger opportunity of supporting a sustainable social system. Our mapping project links those stories to specific locations in San Francisco and will be preserved on our website. We are holding a series of neighborhood installations to first gather stories, plot stories on our map poster and tell people about I’m Here. Our first installation was in Hayes Valley at Patricia’s Green on April 26, 2015. We talked to passers-by and collected the first batch of histories for our digital map. People claimed their spot on our large map of San Francisco, filled out story cards and grabbed up our I'm Here stickers. Next Steps: More neighborhood pop-ins in the coming month and the creation of our self-serve story mapping product at www.imheresf.com. Stories will be organized by neighborhood, by decade, by generations.