I Love SF

Amy Banse

09.15.20

Outside of her corporate career, Amy Banse is also heavily involved in community growth and philanthropy. She serves on the board of Tipping Point, a community organization fighting poverty in the Bay Area. Here, she explains why it is so important to get involved with causes in places you love.

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Outside of her corporate career, Amy Banse is also heavily involved in community growth and philanthropy. She serves on the board of Tipping Point, a community organization fighting poverty in the Bay Area. Here, she explains why it is so important to get involved with causes in places you love.

Thuy

You're also engaged in your community. You serve on the board of the nonprofit Tipping Point Community, it tackles some of the most daunting challenges we see in our society today, including homelessness and poverty, two very big focal points for them. What drives you to be part of this work?
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Amy Banse

I love San Francisco. I love the Bay Area. It's beautiful. It has an energy that is hard to find almost in any other place in this country. It's full of ambition of its own. And so it's natural for me to want to to play a part in that. And Tipping Point is a exceptional organization. Its founder, Daniel Lurie, is incredibly inspiring.

Thuy

Yes, I've heard him speak.
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Amy Banse

Yeah, he's great. And he's an easy person to want to support and work with. So from a personal level, it's just a matter of loving this city and wanting to give back and feeling like Daniel and the issues that he's tackling are a perfect place to to do that. Then there's Comcast's perspective. If you think about it, particularly on the Xfinity side of our business, we're a local market business. We are only as successful as the communities we serve. And so it's natural for all Comcast execs, and it's encouraged, frankly, in their specific markets to work with organizations like Tipping Point.

Thuy

And to lift up the local communities.
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Amy Banse

Exactly.
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