Voices of the Community
By George Koster
Welcome to Voices of the Community, which explores critical issues facing Northern California communities. We introduce you to the voices of community thought leaders and changemakers who are working on solutions that face our fellow individual community members, neighborhoods, cities and our region.
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Election 2022 - California & San Francisco Propositions Explained
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 exp… -
The Red Shades - A Trans Super Hero Rock Opera & Z Space
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 Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 3
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 Fra… -
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 2
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. Learn about the issues plaguing Downtow… -
Flower Piano - Music for Plants and People in a Park
This episode features the voices behind the annual Flower Piano show in Golden Gate Park’s Botanical Garden. Our featured voices are the Gardens of Golden Gate Park CEO Stephanie Linder along with the Co-Founders of Sunset Piano Dean Mermell and Maur… -
Mission Asset Fund - How Finance Changes Lives
In this episode our featured voices are the co-founder and CEO José Quiñonez, Elena Fairley, Director of Programs and Efrain Segundo, Financial Education and Engagement Manager from Mission Asset Fund. They will share with us how their community-cent… -
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco
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 businesses and community leaders h… -
Roots Community Health Center- Healing our Community Within
Hear from the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awardee Dr. Noha Aboelata the founder along with the staff of Roots Community Health Center about how they are addressing the root causes of health disparities and improving outcomes for people impacte… -
San Francisco Mime Troupe - "Back to the Way Things Were"
In this episode, we are following back up with The San Francisco Mime Troupe. Join us now as we check back in with Michael and Alicia to tell us about the new Musical show "Back to The Way Things Were" and bringing back live performances at our publi… -
CalNonprofits Policy & Legislation
Given all of the federal and state funding flowing through the State of California Legislature and Governor’s offices, we wanted to check back in with Lucy Salcido - Carter to update us on all of their public policy work to assure that our nonprofits…