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Submit ReviewOur 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, Executive Director, Youth Speaks
• Julie Phelps, Executive Director, Counterpulse
• Meredith Suttles, Managing Director/CEO,Marin Theatre Company
In addition, this episode also features Jay Mitchell, professor of law and the founding director of the Organizations and Transactions Clinic at Stanford Law School who shares his expert insights and advice on the best practices of nonprofit governance and my co-host Paula Arrigoni the Executive Director of BAVC Media
To find out more information about our guests and their respective organization’s programs, and services, how to volunteer and make a donation please visit their websites for Youth Speaks go to youth speaks dot org for Counter Pulse go to counterpulse dot org for Marin Theater go to marin theatre dot org and for the Organizations and Transactions Clinic at Stanford Law School go to law dot stanford dot edu
We hope that you enjoyed episode one of our new six-part series highlighting the issues and solutions of our arts and culture organizations and their workforce as they innovate to come back from the pandemic along with addressing the systemic racism in our performing arts ecosystem.
We welcome your participation in our next virtual and live in-person community dialogue event that will be focused on audience development through exploring new and different business models that have come out of the pandemic. Our next community dialogue will be streamed as well as you can tune into our usual radio show, podcast, and television show with our friends at BAVC Media. manage.com/subscribe?u=f845c8577f6fa5b07211bf63c&id=4ffc7cec9c">Sign Up for our Newsletter to participate in our next live show
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"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 Covid-19’s impact on our nonprofits, small businesses, and local governments with this very informative and insightful interview with Foundations for Social Change. Foundations for Social Change were the first organization in North America to develop a research project to study the impact on our unhoused neighbors' lives by providing cash transfers to un-housed community members.
In this episode, we feature the voices of the Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Psychology Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia Dr. Jiaying Zhao, along with the Director of the New Leaf Project Heather Hay and the LEAP Co-Chair and Peer Coordinator Ray Bonnetrouge
To review the first study and to find out more and support the work of Foundations For Social Change please go to for social change dot org
You can find out more about the work of nonprofits working with our unhoused neighbors featured over the last 3 years in this series by going to our Covid-19 and San Francisco Nonprofits series.
And to find out more information about the first program to provide cash transfers to community members in the United States the City of Stockton please go to our Stockton’s Rise From Bankruptcy and go to Episode 12 The Rose that Grew from Concrete
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Throughout this special series on covid-19’s impact on our nonprofits, small businesses and local governments we have heard from numerous voices who continue to show up in a pandemic to support our unhoused community members. They have shared with you all the wonderful solutions that our nonprofits and local governments are working on to help reduce the number of our neighbors who find themselves un-housed.
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 voices of the executive director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing for the City and County of San Francisco, Shireen McSpadden, the Manager of Housing Subsidy Programs at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, Alan Guttirez along with a participant in the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing Flex Housing Pool program Jugal Patel as well as the Executive Director of sf.org/">Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco, Beth Stokes.
To find out more about the flex housing pool program along with other housing and wrap around support services that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing for the City and County of San Francisco provides please go to h s h dot org
And for more information about all of the wrap around services that the sf.org/our-services/">Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco provides and to make a donation please go to sf.org/donatenow/">e c s dash s f dot org
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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 75 when we introduced you to Miracle Message’s Miracle Money.
In our 102 episode of this special Covid-19 series we are featuring the voices of the CEO of Miracle Messages, Kevin Adler, and Miracle Messages general manager of Los Angeles Jenni Taylor along with Miracle Money Program participant Elizabeth Softky. Photo of Episode Note: The photo is Elizabeth and her Miracle Messages Phone Buddy Joan
To donate to the holiday miracle money fund to provide funds directly to our unhoused community members please go to miracle messages dot org forward slash donate and remember I'm matching up to $2,500.00, so you can double your donation
You can listen back to koster.squarespace.com/voc-stories-miracle-messages">episode one in our special series to hear about the background of Miracle Messages with Kevin and to find out more about the success of the Miracle Money program and its impact on our unhoused community members please listen back to koster.squarespace.com/voc-3-miracle-money-pilot-e-75">episode seventy-five of this series where we feature the voices of Ray, Jen and Kevin.
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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 coming together to make music and magic
To find out more about Skywatchers ensemble annual homeless person memorial vigil, watch the trailer and setup a screening of the 10th anniversary documentary film, and make a donation along with volunteering please go to a b d productions dot org
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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 wonderful subject matter experts to help us better understand both the Pros and Cons of both State and City propositions - Michelle Moritz the Speakers Bureau Chair of the League of Women Voters of San Francisco and Madison Alvarado a Reporter and the Co-Creator of the San Francisco Public Press Election Guide.
In support of the wonderful insights of both Michelle and Madison we wanted to make sure you all had the following Election 2022 Resources to deep dive into the dozens of State of California and City/County of San Francisco Propositions
League of Women Voters - Resources -According to Michelle the League of Women Voters has provided a series of tools to help you get ready to vote for both the State of California and the City and County of San Francisco propositions. Please do a deep dive into these great resources to get out and vote.
+ City and County of San Francisco Pro and Con Guide
+ State of California Voters Edge Tool - Just type in your zip code or your address and provides information about propositions, candidates and allows you to create a test ballot to get organized and ready to actually fill out your real ballot.
The San Francisco Public Press - Resources -According to Madison The San Francisco Public Press team has both written and audio versions of in-depth analysis of every San Francisco measure that's on the ballot. Please do a deep dive into these great resources to get out and vote.
+ Nonpartisan Voter Guide Overview
+ Voter Guide with audio interviews
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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 pandemic to bring you a very unique show The Red Shades: A Trans Superhero Rock Opera
In this episode we feature the voices of Adrienne Price, the writer and co-composer of The Red Shades: A Trans Superhero Rock Opera along with Rose Oser, the Interim Producing Director of Z Space and Lead Producer of The Red Shades who share with us their 7-year journey to bring The Red Shades to Life at ZSPACE
To find out more about the Red Shades show, to purchase tickets, and make a donation please go to z space dot org forward slash red shades. You can find out more about ZSPACE and Word for Word by listening to Shafer Mazow and Rose Oser in episode 12 and to find out more about the work of Word for Word hear from the co-founders Susan Harloe and JoAnne Winter in episode 8
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“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-19 pandemic one of the ideas that is being discussed is to convert office buildings into housing to address San Francisco’s decades long affordable housing crisis.
We wanted to dig deeper into this idea of converting offices into housing and explore all of the issues of making this happen in San Francisco along with examples of other cities who have actually converted offices to housing. Our guests also tell us about the State of California’s pressure on San Francisco’s government to build more housing since according to California’s Department of Housing and Community Development, San Francisco is the slowest jurisdiction in the state to move housing projects to construction.
In this episode we feature the voices of two local reporters Sarah Wright and Kevin Truong from the San Francisco Standard who have done in-depth reporting on the office to housing conversion along with issues facing our housing, and business sectors.
To read Sarah Wright’s reporting on housing and transportation please go to sf standard dot com / author / sarah-wright/
And to read Kevin Truong’s reporting on both business and recovery policy please go to sf standard dot com / author / kevin-truong/
To hear part one of our three stories on downtown San Francisco which featured the voices of Christ Wright from Advance SF and Jeff Bellisario from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute please listen to episode 95 . And to hear part two of the series which features the voices of Noah Arroyo from the San Francisco Chronicle and Anna Tong from The San Francisco Standard please listen to episode 98
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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 who are doing some interesting and informative reporting on all of the issues plaguing downtown San Francisco as well as some of the efforts by business, nonprofits and the government to address the issues.
To read Anna Tong’s great reporting on downtown san francisco as well as her other reporting on the many issues and topics impacting san francisco please go to sf standard dot com / author / anna-tong/
And to read Noah Arroyo’s great reporting on both downtown and what is next for san francisco through the SF Next series please go to sf chronicle dot com / author / noah-arroyo/
To hear part one of our three stories on downtown San Francisco which featured the voices of Christ Wright from Advance SF and Jeff Bellisario from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute listen to episode 95
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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 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 Mauro ffortissimo. To find out more about the flower piano show, and, to become a sponsor or just buy tickets for the ticketed events please go to s f b g dot org. And to find out more about Sunset Piano and their wonderful documentary film twelve pianos please go to sunset piano dot com
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