Voices of the Community
167 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome to Voices of the Community, we strive to amplify solutions facing where we live through featuring residents like you, along with change makers, and thought leaders to support our fellow residents and people visiting or working in our area. “Our goal is to feature the unheard comments and stories from communities across our region in hopes to create dialogues to address our common problems and support the change of the status quo.” - George Koster, Creator/Host
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Discover the Artist Space Trust: Unlocking the Future of Housing for Creatives!
April 03, 2024 15:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MB"The interesting thing about a Land Trust is that it's a split title, we'll split the title and the land trust will own the land forever. And then we'll either sell or lease the housing or creative space on top of it to artists" - Meg Shiffler Welcome to the finale of our series on affordable housing for the creative workforce, brought to you in partnership with Arts for a Better Bay Area and the State of the Arts Summit. This episode is the culmination of our journey, featuring innovative ...
How to Buy Your Performance Space | CAST & CounterPulse Real Estate Model
March 16, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB"The resilience that we have to live through booms and busts and pandemics and continue to serve the community, continue to drive foot traffic, continue to create economic opportunities for local people to have jobs and work and express themselves is just incredible. So if you're struggling with a storefront or a vacancy or empty space, just remember to think about the arts” - Julie Phelps In this episode, we delve into our special series that charts the resurgence of the arts and culture s...
REP-SF’s Citywide People’s Plan for Affordable Housing
February 22, 2024 01:30 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MB“It's about forcing the city to make sure that they build affordable housing. And there's lots of, programs that we have in the Citywide People's Plan that can make, huge steps towards, building affordable housing” - Dyan Ruiz This episode is part of our ongoing Special Series on How the Arts and Culture sector is coming back from the covid 19 pandemic. In our co-production of Arts for A Better Bay Area’s [ABBA] State of the Arts Summit on June 28th 2023 one of the breakout sessions was foc...
Proposition E, 2018 & Arts Impact Endowment Update & Discussion & Grants For The Arts
January 27, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour - 69.9 MB"I think the action and the continuity of the coalition from Prop S to Prop E went from 40 organizations to 140 organizations. That was something that was huge” - Vin Seaman In this seventh episode of our series focusing on the arts and culture sector's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, we bring you highlights from the Co-Production of Arts For A Better Bay Area (ABBA) State of The Arts Summit, held at the Strand Theatre in San Francisco on June 28th, 2023. The summit centered around reb...
How Do Community Based Arts Orgs Secure Sustainable Funding?
December 20, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 67 MB“Bringing the scale of human life to the community again so that we can kind of start seeing our humanity and our everyday Experiences” - Melissa Abercrombie This episode is from our November 4th 2023 live event co-production with the Petaluma Arts Center, our broadcast partners KPCA 103.3fm and Petaluma Community Access TV and BAVC Media. This special event was focused on exploring the question, “How Do Community Based Arts Organizations Secure Sustainable Funding?” Our wonderful panel an...
Meredith Winner - Paint the Void & Lyzette Wanzer - Author of Trauma, Tresses & Truth
December 06, 2023 16:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MB“I think really being open minded and also really trusting artists is a really big, important factor because. Artists know what they're doing, at least when it comes to making the artwork, that's why people hire them and allow them to have the most creative freedom as possible, really. Usually allows the project to be as best as it can be or as good as it can be” - Meredith Winner This episode is the long form of our one-on-one interview with Meredith Winner the COO and Co-Founder of Buildi...
Fernando Pujals & Rachel Osajima- How their using the Arts for Economic & Community Development
November 29, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MB"So of course, the pandemic was a struggle for all of us, and so we all know the arts organizations are the first to close and last open, especially the performing arts are really still struggling" - Rachel Osajima This episode is the long form of our one-on-one interview with Fernando Pujals, the Deputy Director of the Mid-Market Business Association & Foundation and a great deep dive into how he and his team our supporting artists, arts organizations and leveraging the power of the arts t...
Regional Economic Recovery Through the Arts
November 22, 2023 17:30 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB"There's been a lot of talk about, how do you make this sustainable, and there's not one answer, but one piece that is core to that, is really galvanizing and cementing around this notion that arts and culture is already right here and we need to lean into it and value it and uplift it. And in that way it won't be able to be ignored'“ - Fernando Pujas This episode is part of our special series on how the arts and culture sector is coming back from the covid 19 pandemic and features voices f...
Revisiting Artists’ Housing Solutions
October 31, 2023 22:37 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MB"So looking at how do we build an ecology where affordable housing isn't just a place you stay, it's a place you stay and work and build a business and raise a family and, you know, build the economic resources,for the next step. " - Josh Simon This episode is part of our special series on how the arts and culture sector is coming back from the Covid 19 pandemic and features voices from our co-production of Arts For a Better Bay Area’s State Of The Arts Summit on June 28th 2023. The focus o...
Ralph Remington of San Francisco Arts Commission - Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
September 22, 2023 18:30 - 8 minutes - 7.73 MB“One of the things that I, would say to this community coming from a repressed community is let’s turn to each other, not on each other. Let’s bond together, and find our commonality, not our differences. Because the enemy, I’ve seen the enemy in Arizona, and it is not us. So when we have small differences with each other, let’s recognize them for what that is, and let’s stop this San Francisco bickering that we’re famous for, and killing each other over really tiny differences. And let’s bo...
Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit – “Economic Recovery in the Arts: Regaining Patrons and Artistic Engagement” Ep 3
September 09, 2023 17:45 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MB"It's all about partnering artists with small businesses to create site specific installations and that way create more exposure both for the business and for the artists and also to revitalize those corridors" - Vanessa Wilson This is our second episode from the co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit "Rebuilding Our Communities," on June 28th, 2023. The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the importance of arts and culture and it...
Maria Jensen of SOMARTS Cultural Center - Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
August 30, 2023 17:14 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MB“This is a time when the art community's creative expertise and skills and talents are being relied upon. And finally, really seen as major contributors to the local economy.” – Maria Jensen This interview with Maria Jensen is part of our co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit on June 28th, 2023. You can watch the wonderful interview conducted by our roaming reporter team of Isa NakazawaJensen Jensenand Eric Estrada. You can listen t...
Jonathan Moscone Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
August 16, 2023 22:20 - 7 minutes - 7.23 MB"A clean city is not what San Francisco is. San Francisco is a messy city. It’s politically messy, it’s diverse. It fights amongst itself. It is San Francisco and it’s never not gonna be. So, let’s lean into the right kind of messy of San Francisco and artists can get messy. So, let’s get messy." — Jonathan Moscone, Executive Director,California Arts Council This interview with Jonathan Moscone is part of our co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the...
Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit - Opening & Keynotes Ep 2
August 05, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB“This is a time when the art community's creative expertise and skills and talents are being relied upon. And finally, really seen as major contributors to the local economy.” – Maria Jensen This is our first episode from the co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit on June 28th, 2023 . This episode features the opening and keynote speakers made up of community leaders, poets, artists, administrators, government officials, and representa...
“The State of Our Arts & Culture Organizations” - Ep 1 Board & Governance
April 15, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB"We wanna incentivize and give board love too. I think the board is often like the scary people or viewed as the scary people behind the curtains that are doing the work or maybe overseeing or assessing” - Michelle “Mush” Lee, Youth Speaks Our first episode of the special series titled "Insights for Building Your Nonprofit Arts and Culture Board" features these three exceptional nonprofit arts and culture leaders, doing big ambitious things with their Boards: • Michelle "Mush" Lee, Executi...
Foundations for Social Change
January 25, 2023 16:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MB"There's still a lot of public resistance to the idea of giving people in homelessness cash, because, the public doesn't trust people in poverty or people in homelessness, I think that has to be corrected and addressed" - Dr. Jiaying Zhao One of the topics we have focused on through our special Covid-19 series is our unhoused neighbors' lives by organizations and governments experimenting with providing cash transfers to unhoused community members. We are finishing up our special series on ...
San Francisco's Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing
January 14, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MB“I volunteer at a safe sober space. I serve on the board of a retreat for healing that happens once a year. I serve on the Board of StartOut which helps LGBTQ + entrepreneurs gain access to mentorship and resources and fundraising to increase our representation as founders of companies. I will always do this work, because these are the same kind of organizations that empowered me to have the life I lead today.” Jugal Patel Throughout this special series on covid-19’s impact on our nonpro...
Miracle Money Pilot Program Update
December 07, 2022 16:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MB“It breaks my heart as a mother and a teacher almost the, majority of people who are unhoused are families with children. Sleeping in cars, sleeping in garages, and that these families, these moms and dads, aunts and uncles, they work, but again, they can't get enough together to secure safe and affordable housing”-Elizabeth Softky Welcome to our annual holiday show and fundraiser. As we bring this year and our special series on Covid-19’s impact on nonprofits to a close, we wanted to go ba...
SKYWATCHERS Ensemble
December 03, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MB"It’s the chemistry of people, who come from very different backgrounds, you have gay, transgender, straight, and different talents and different abilities coming together and making this music and magic"-Shavonne Allen This episode features the voices of the founder of ABD Productions and the Sky Watchers Ensemble program, Anne Bluethenthal, along with the members of the Sky Watcher Ensemble, Shavonne Allen and Joel Yates who share about the power of people, from very different backgrounds...
Election 2022 - California & San Francisco Propositions Explained
October 30, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MB“We provide education to encourage people to vote and participate in government”-Michelle Moritz Welcome to our 2022 Election Show. Given all the propositions on both a State of California level as well as the usual too many propositions to understand on the City of San Francisco level we wanted to bring together two wonderful subject matter experts to help us better understand both the Pros and Cons of both State and City propositions. Our Elections 2022 show features the voices of two w...
The Red Shades - A Trans Super Hero Rock Opera & Z Space
October 26, 2022 15:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MB“The Compton, Cafeteria Riots and Felicia Elizondo's life living in the Tenderloin in the 1960s and trans sex workers who were fighting for their right to survive, connected with the ideas that were coming out of my mind”-Adrienne Price In this our one hundredth episode of our special series on the impact of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic on our nonprofit's small businesses and local government, we reached back out to folks at Z Space to share with you how they have struggled through the pan...
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 3
October 19, 2022 15:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MB“I think the, first one that stood out to me is unlike some other cities, the San Francisco city government, is not pushing for these downtown office to housing conversions”- Sarah Wright This is part three of our three episodes exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting San Francisco's downtown neighborhood and economy along with the efforts to address the issues in the reinvention of downtown San Francisco. As downtown San Francisco continues to struggle to come back from the Covid-...
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 2
September 28, 2022 15:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB“San Francisco’s tax structures are incentivizing companies to, in some cases just move entirely out of San Francisco”-Anna Tong This is part two of the three stories we are covering on how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the downtown of San Francisco and the efforts to address the issues and the reinvention of downtown San Francisco. In this episode we feature the voices of two local reporters Anna Tong from the San Francisco Standard and Noah Arroyo from the San Francisco Chronicle wh...
Flower Piano - Music for Plants and People in a Park
September 14, 2022 17:36 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MB“I always say that music is a healthy thing that we do. It's something that we strongly believe that even the flowers and the plants and the trees really enjoy having music being played for them”-Mauro ffortissimo One of the topics we’ve covered in our two plus years of producing this special series on the Covid-19 Pandemic’s impact on our community is the impact the pandemic is having on our live performing arts organizations. This episode features the voices behind the annual Flower Piano...
Mission Asset Fund - How Finance Changes Lives
September 03, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB“We heard of neighbors helping neighbors, of people dropping off food on their friends’ doorsteps, of mutual aid groups, of people becoming champions and ambassadors in their community and, showing the way to access resources and support”-Elena Fairley As millions of families accessed and received billions of dollars of financial support from the US Federal Coronavirus Relief CARES Act Fund, millions of immigrant families were excluded from federal COVID-19 relief. Find out in our latest ep...
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 1
August 17, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MB"I think that there is a recognition that we're all interconnected and that this area is important. It's essential for, the City and the region. I think that there is a, great opportunity for all these groups to come together and to build something great." - Chris Wright This episode focuses on the impact the COVID 19 pandemic is still having on the city of San Francisco's downtown community area. Along with this businesses workers and visitors, the city of San Francisco, along with busines...
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco
August 17, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MB"I think that there is a recognition that we're all interconnected and that this area is important. It's essential for, the City and the region. I think that there is a, great opportunity for all these groups to come together and to build something great." - Chris Wright This episode focuses on the impact the COVID 19 pandemic is still having on the city of San Francisco's downtown community area. Along with this businesses workers and visitors, the city of San Francisco, along with busines...
Roots Community Health Center- Healing our Community Within
July 30, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 67 MB"We are taking charge of our community. And Dr. Aboelata has coined this phrase years ago, healing our community from within. And we do have to look into ourselves to help heal what ills our communities"-Aquil Naji Over the past two-plus years, our community health care centers have faced many challenges in an ever-changing landscape, forcing them to adapt and evolve their outreach and delivery of both health care and comprehensive wrap-around support services to the most at-risk members of...
San Francisco Mime Troupe - "Back to the Way Things Were"
June 29, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MB“Zoe is grappling with how to be an adult or starting to be an adult in a world in which she feels, there's not really a space for her to imagine a future”- Alicia MP Nelson as Zoe In this episode, we are following back up with The San Francisco Mime Troupe who we interviewed two years ago in episode four. Back in June of 2020 with the beginning of the pandemic, Michael Gene Sullivan shared with us that the San Francisco Mime Troupe was canceling its annual summer live show performances in ...
CalNonprofits Policy & Legislation
May 04, 2022 15:00 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB"CalNonprofits was pushing for relief for the sector and contract flexibility so that we could be as responsive as possible to our communities while they were dealing with the pandemic”- Lucy Salcido Carter We know from our interview in January 2021 with Jacob Harold and Anna Koob of Candid that from their extensive study they estimated that over 4 thousand nonprofits in California could go out of business from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. This conversation led us to wonder want the...
Arts & Culture as Economic Drivers in Our Communities
April 15, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB“First responders save lives; second responders help put people’s lives back together. Artists are essential workers in our society and our economy, helping us recover, reflect, and rebuild”-Julie Baker This episode is focused on the importance and economic impact of the arts, culture and artists on both our economy and our communities. We are hosting a panel of guests from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Californians for the Arts and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. According to a Mar...
Redwood Empire Food Bank
April 01, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBIt's just understanding that, life is tenuous. Life is hard and, sometimes people need help and it's all okay - David Goodman Over the past two years of producing this special series, we have brought you stories from nonprofits working on some of our long-term social issues such as homelessness, housing, hygiene, and mental health. In this one-hour-long special show, we wanted to turn our focus back to food insecurity for children families, and seniors. Since the Covid-19 pandemic breakout...
Drag Show to End Homelessness
March 02, 2022 20:03 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MB“They want housing to allow them to build their lives up from there…” - Poly Pop-Tart At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, we featured Sammie Rayner and Community Forward SF’s work in episode 5 and with our unhoused trans-gender, LGBTQ, and people female-identify community members. In this episode, we bring Sammie back along with Felicia Torrez from Community Forward SF and Poly Pop-Tart a Drag Queen, Stand Up Comedian & Performer to focus on Community Forward S...
Oral Lee Brown Foundation
February 11, 2022 22:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MB"We have to give them something to do. You know, if you're just sitting there and this is what you see, this is who you become..." - Phyllis Opara Welcome to our one-hour special on the importance of education especially to the low income youth in our communities. We explore how the combination of the covid-19 pandemic and economic meltdown has impacted the support services of an Oakland legacy education organization the Oral Lee Brown Foundation. In this episode our featured voices are th...
Resources for Community Development
January 26, 2022 16:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB"I think that housing is just fundamental and it's, unfortunately, not really a right, right now in our country" - Dan Sawislak Since 1970 California has not been building enough housing especially affordable housing. The latest estimate of California's housing shortages ranges from 3 to 4 million housing units. This decades-long lack of housing impacts both the estimated 160 thousand unhoused Californians and the 7 million Californians living in poverty because they spend over 50 percent...
Blue Heart & APIENC (API Equality - Northern California)
December 08, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB"If there is anything that I've seen transformed in the past 19 months, is that more and more people are unwilling to accept what we previously accepted as normal."- Yuan Wang In this episode, our featured voices are the co-founder and director of Blue Heart Lindley, Mease and co-director of a APIENC Yuan Wang. This episode is focused on sharing the work of two grassroots organizations Blue Heart which empowers individual funders through their efforts of identifying and funding under resou...
Hospitality House
December 01, 2021 16:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB"We believe in investing in the real potential of every individual in the community" - Joe Wilson In this episode our featured voices are the Executive Director of Hospitality House Joe Wilson, the Director of Community Engagement of Hospitality House Windy Click and the Manager of Hospitality House’s Community Arts Program Janet Williams. Hospitality House is a San Francisco based nonprofit that is focused on working with our un-housed community members through providing wrap around suppo...
How Small Businesses are using Digital Marketing and Community Engagement in a Pandemic
October 29, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 65 MB"It's really about connecting with your community and knowing the people around you that want you to survive and in turn supporting those other small businesses". Kristin Houk, All Good Pizza, Taco, Cafe Alma In our October 2021 One Hour Special Show co-produced with the American Marketing Association SF Chapter hear from small business owners, Michelle Pusateri (Nana Joes Granola) and Kristen Houk (All Good Pizza,TATO & Cafe Alma), and community and economic development lead, Pooja Rajani ...
How Are Live Performing Arts Coming Back? Listen to our Panel Discussion
September 24, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 71 MBFor all of us remembering that the performing arts is kind of like the town square, that everyone comes to better understand their humanity, whether it's through music or dance performance, to interpret the world as it is. And as they want it to be, and they want to see themselves.” - Michael Sullivan Welcome to our September 2021 virtual live panel discussion show. Given the fourth wave of COVID 19's Delta variant and the ever-changing City, County, and State protocols, we wanted to check ...
Live Panel with Word for Word, LavaMaeX,Children's Book Project,Simply the Basics,SF GirlsChorus
August 26, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB“I feel like George has brought together the pieces of a puzzle of equity with people, your organizations are approaching it from the arts, and from hygiene and literacy, it's just, lovely to see these different nonprofits surviving in this very difficult time and doing such great work”- Risa Our featured voices are Executive Director of Simply the Basics, Meghan Freebeck, Interim Executive Director, of the San Francisco Girls Chorus Adriana Marcial, the CEO of LavaMaeX Kris Kepler, Word fo...
Youth Spirits Artworks
August 19, 2021 12:30 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB"The Tiny Homes project was going on during the Trump administration and and during and COVID and, it was really a means of people, expressing and keeping hope alive at a time when they were not feeling so much hope" - Sally In this episode the featured voices are the Executive Director of the Youth Spirit Artworks Sally Hindman and the Social Media Manager Reginald Gentry. We wanted to host Youth Spirits Artworks on the show because they have developed both the first tiny homes village for...
Shipyard Trust for the Arts
August 19, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB"We want to expand the artists footprint and not just preserve what we have, but create more studio space for artists and make this the place where the creative people of San Francisco can thrive and afford to be" - Barbara In this episode our focus and theme is on our artists, and how making art and community engagement is supporting the development of studio spaces to support both our artists and a more diverse community of artists. Our featured voice is the ceo and president of the Ship...
St. Anthony's
August 12, 2021 12:30 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MB"I think there's a big learning about like the fragility and humanity and all our interactions. Right. And recognizing that we all belong to each other" - Nils In this episode we wanted feature the voice of a legacy social service organization that’s approach to providing a hand up to our low-income and unhoused community members is that of seeing them as guests and walking with them on their journey. Over the past 70 years, St Anthony’s has been providing a holistic approach to supporting ...
East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
August 05, 2021 12:30 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MB"As the San Francisco Bay Area experienced its rapid changes as the population exploded. And in some ways, even as a diversity in the bay area exploded the folks who you didn't see, in those new faces, those new careers, those new ways of being where black and brown folks, particularly legacy and long time black and brown Oaklanders"-Noni Sessions In this episode our featured voice is the Executive Director of the East Bay, Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Noni Session. We wanted to host t...
Rebuilding Together San Francisco
August 05, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB"I think we all realize from the pandemic we all belong. We all matter. Human connection is very important and we all have to look out for each other"- Mahogany Roland In this episode our featured voice is the Executive Director of Rebuilding Together San Francisco Mahogany Roland. In this week’s show we continue our focus and theme on housing and share voices and solutions to our long-term housing issues. Mahogany shares with us their ongoing work to support our seniors and the disabled co...
Coalition on Homelessness & Street Sheet Newspaper
July 29, 2021 15:57 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBFor folks out on the streets, those who were not lucky enough to get a Shelter In Place hotel room. It's been very, very brutal, not having access to water. A lot of the food sources were cut off not being able to use bathrooms in cafes, et cetera - Jennifer Friedenbach Our featured voices in this episode are the Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness, Jennifer Friedenbach and Street Sheet Editor, Quiver Watts. In this episode we continue with our theme in featuring voices of n...
Miracle Money - Direct Cash Transfer to Un-Housed People
July 22, 2021 12:30 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBI think sometimes people make the assumption that if someone is unhoused, there's nothing in common with someone who's housed. And that's a real misnomer because I feel like we're all, ultimately one paycheck away from being unhoused - Jen Roy In this episode, our featured voices are the Founder and CEO of Miracle Messages, Kevin Adler, Miracle Messages Friend Program volunteer Jen Roy along with Miracle Money Program participant Ray. The pandemic has exposed how fragile the economic health...
Miracle Message & San Francisco Marin Food Bank Update
July 15, 2021 12:30 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB“These are people often who are experiencing homelessness, who use the ICU as a waiting room”- Kevin Adler In this episode our featured voices are the Founder and CEO of Miracle Messages Kevin Adler and the Director of Community Engagement with the San Francisco Marin Food Bank Katy McKnight. We are working on a full half hour show for next week’s KSFP broadcast on July 22nd with Kevin and two guests to discuss their pilot program Miracle Money which provides direct cash transfers to our ...
Bayview Opera House
July 08, 2021 12:30 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MB“We've definitely been listening to the needs of artists and artists of color not only opening ourselves up as a venue for them, but also making sure that we're helping them be successful out in the grand world”- Ashley In this episode, our featured voice is the Program Manager of the Bayview Opera House Ashley Smiley. The Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre was founded in 1989 and is one of six city-owned cultural centers operated by nonprofit arts organizations providing c...
San Francisco Radio Club
July 08, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB“It's for the community. We're trying to serve the community. We all live here. You know, how are we going to serve our community going forward?” - Greg In this episode, our featured voice is the president of the San Francisco Radio Club Greg Albrecht. The San Francisco Radio Club was formed in 1909 by a handful of radio enthusiasts with the objective of exchanging messages over the air. We wanted to host the San Francisco Radio Club on the show because it is another one of our wonderful...