200+ San Francisco office workers from 5 companies volunteer to clean up downtown [Video]

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — More than 200 employees from five major companies in Downtown San Francisco joined forces to give back to the city.

“This is our home and people take care of their home. We want to ensure that the neighborhoods that our employees are living in, working — and the places people are coming to visit — are gleaming,” said Worku Gachou with VISA.

Several months ago, executives from Chase, Gap, Wells Fargo, Levi Strauss and Visa got together to come up with ideas to revitalize downtown San Francisco.

They formed the Downtown Volunteer Coalition and Thursday’s first volunteering event is the outcome of that meeting.

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“We had a brainstorm saying, ‘Well, what if we start small with a joint volunteering event’ and here we are three months later making it happen,” said Daniel Fibiger with Gap. “Our hope …