Voices of the Community
By George Koster
Welcome 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
Latest episode
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Foundations for Social Change
Learn how direct cash transfers to unhoused folks are a preventative strategy to prevent people from becoming entrenched in homelessness and save the government money. In this episode, we feature the voices of the Associate Professor and Canada Resea… -
San Francisco's Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing
As we enter 2023 and the third year of the covid-19 pandemic we wanted to hear from one of our government departments about the housing and wrap around support services they are providing to our unhoused neighbors. In this episode we feature the voic… -
Miracle Money Pilot Program Update
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 back to Episode One in the series when we introduced you to Miracle Messages and in Episode… -
SKYWATCHERS Ensemble
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… -
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…