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Voices of the Community

George Koster, Voices of the Community

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

society & culture documentary

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00:21:58

Uplift Family Services

Voices of the Community ·

2021/05/27

"We do whatever it takes to strengthen and advocate for children, families, and adults to realize their hopes, behavior, health, and well being"- Faith JacksonIn this episode, our featured voice is the Transitional Housing Program Supervisor of Uplift Family Services Faith Jackson. The focus of this week’s show is on how the covid-19 pandemic is impacting our youth and the nonprofit organizations that provide support services to help youth through this crisis.To find out more about Uplift Family

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01:06:44

Our Public Libraries in a Pandemic

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2021/05/20

You don’t need a building to provide library services to your community - JayantiIn this episode our featured voices are the founder of Common Knowledge Susan Stuart Clark, the Director of Library Services, of the Hayward Public Library Jayanti Addleman and the Library Director of the Redwood City Library Derek WolfgramWelcome to our one-hour special on the importance of public libraries to our communities and how the combination of the covid-19 pandemic and economic meltdown has impacted our

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00:24:30

Theatre Bay Area

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2021/05/13

“How you get an entire sector back on its feet after 18 months of closure is really difficult and we're going to need support for years”-Brad EricksonIn this episode our featured voice is the Executive Director of Theater Bay Area, Brad Erickson. We wanted to host Theater Bay Area because they are another one of our long-time performing arts organizations that are focused on the incubation and support of the san Francisco Bay Area performing arts ecosystem.As a response to the Covid-19 pandemic

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00:28:27

CalNonprofits

Voices of the Community ·

2021/05/13

"Our mantras for the whole course of the pandemic has been trying to get as many resources to nonprofits as possible"-Lucy Salcido CarterIn this episode our featured voices are Public Policy Director Lucy Salcido Carter and Christina Dragonetti the Outreach and Communications Director at CalNonprofits. Over this past 13 months of producing this special series on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on nonprofits we have introduced you to numerous nonprofit organizations in the bay area. In today’s

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00:59:58

The Opportunity That Is Stockton - Reflect & Renew

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2021/05/12

“They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds." "I hope people recognize that we are continuing to fight and uprise against the injustices that are happening on all levels.” - Jasmine DellafosseToday’s convening and conversation with community leaders is our final follow up conversation from both our The Townhall Event we hosted in May of 2019 and the original 12 episode documentary series From Bankruptcy to Reinvention - The City of Stockton that we produced in 2016 and 2017. The title

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00:30:35

Opera Parallele

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2021/05/06

"Harriet's Spirit is using the spirit of Harriet Tubman as an inspiration to a young girl to overcome bullying in school" - Nicole PaiementIn this episode our featured voice is the Artistic and General Director of Opera Parallele Nicole Paiement. “I started this company because I was very eager to not only collaborate with a lot of artists in the area, but specifically with living composers, and also try to find a way to sort of demystifying what opera is about bringing it into the 21st century by

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00:21:16

Left Coast Theater Company

Voices of the Community ·

2021/05/06

“I look forward to seeing how sort of the general public reviews, how they look at artists. And go, Oh, this is a valid life choice”-Erica AndracchioIn this episode our featured voice is Playwriter, actress and Executive Director of the Left Coast Theater Company. Erica Andracchio who describes herself as, the lady with many hats for a number of years now. "I started off acting and you know, when you're in high school and early college days it's, I'm gonna go to Hollywood and be a famous actress

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00:29:25

Antwuane's Story

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2021/05/03

I think the challenge for us is that we live and breathe this pain daily. And that's hard as this is to hear my aunt in pain. I carry that every single day. How the hell do they expect us to respond to a police officer who is biased against us to act professional and appropriate and kind when we know the one thing this cop wants to do is to hurt us. And it's not easy. It's not easy because people assume, Oh, You got to get over it. - Nicholas HattenThis episode is an epilogue to our 14 episode

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00:59:00

The San Francisco Office Economic Workforce...

Voices of the Community ·

2021/04/30

I think that some of the most innovative, if not the only innovative programs that we saw to be successful was because the City listened to communities and neighbors and residents who had all the ideas quickly and your small business, entrepreneurs like your restaurants who were like, we got to figure something out of we're closed down.- Joaquin TorresOur featured voice in this episode is Joaquin Torres, the former Director of the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the

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00:40:25

Return to the Stage

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2021/04/22

We think that part of recovering at a grand scale in this country and in communities is actually going to be specifically about the performing arts. Because there’s something there that can be delivered to people to say, okay, we're on the other side, we made it. - Meg FriedmanIn this episode our featured voices are Meg Friedman a senior consultant at AMS planning and research and David McGraw the Program Coordinator for Arts Administration at Elon University and we’re discussing Return to the Stage

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00:29:30

Women's Audio Mission

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2021/04/15

Less than 5% of the people that are creating all of the things that make up the soundtrack to our lives every day are women or gender nonconforming folks or gender diverse - Elena Botkin-LevyIn this episode we feature the voices of Managing Director Elena Bot Kin–Levy and the Director of Education Leah King of Women’s Audio MissionWomen’s Audio Mission is another one of our unique nonprofits that provide both skills training and a global learning community that empowers women and gender diverse

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00:30:02

Edgewood Center for Children and Families

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2021/04/08

“We are very committed to having honest, open conversations about mental health and that there is nothing to be ashamed about having that discussion or saying that you need help” - Gregg BiggsOur featured voices in this episode are Justine Underhill the Chief Program Officer and Gregg Biggs the Director of Advancement from Edgewood Center for Children and Families. The harm on our mental health from the covid-19 pandemic has been the most acute on our children, teenagers and young adults. School

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00:19:50

Serendipity

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2021/04/01

"Small businesses, obviously the life blood of a town like San Francisco, we give so much in taxes and so much to schools and so much in donations. Because it's maybe not that much money as an individual, it's not recognized, but it's a huge thing. And San Francisco wouldn't be the same without all of those places." - Lisa Sherratt In this episode our featured voice is Lisa Sherratt the owner of serendipity, a specialty gift and card store. Over this past year of producing this series, we have been

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00:23:05

InterMusicSF

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2021/04/01

"I’ve just seen real ingenuity and perseverance, and also because of this, it’s connected to community in a much different way. That sense that all boats rise has really come through for this, I’d say” - Cory CombsIn this episode our featured voice is Executive Director of InterMusic SF Cory Combs. We wanted to host InterMusicSF because they are another one of our long time performing arts organizations that is focused on the incubation and support of our music groups.InterMusicSF is also

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00:30:04

BMAGIC and 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic

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2021/03/25

"The essence of what we do, providing stability, providing homes, you know, showing our youth that they are, they have value" – Sakeenah El-AminOur featured voices in this episode are Lyslynn Lacoste the Executive Director of BMagic and Sakeenah El-Ami the Deputy Director of the Third Street Youth Center and Clinic. One of the biggest unintended consequences of our yearlong school closures, on again, off again stay-at-home orders, and ever-changing shutdowns of businesses deemed “non-essential” is

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00:45:22

CivicMakers

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2021/03/18

In this episode, we feature the voices of cofounder of CivicMakers Judi Brown, Assistant Director of Human Resources at the City of San Jose Kelli Parmley and former Director of Digital Services and Open Government for the City of San Rafael, Rebecca WoodburyIn today’s show we wanted to focus on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic and economic meltdown have and are continuing to have on our local governments. We asked our friend of the show Judi Brown and her team at CivicMakers to help us put

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00:32:36

Project Artivism

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2021/03/11

Now we're seeing that through our programs and programs of other organizations that there's really this emphasis, that these are essential services that artists are providing for business owners, communities, and people, students, and anyone really, you can think of it's really important work - Karim ZelenkaOur featured voices are Justin Hoover the Director of Programs, and Karim Zelenka the Chief of Staff at Project Artivism.Throughout our series we have been featuring arts and culture nonprofits

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00:33:02

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center

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2021/03/04

"We really are coming alongside of those entrepreneurs and small business owners and helping them turn their passion to profit" - Tim RussellToday’s episode is part of our efforts to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the small businesses and entrepreneurs that make up the economic fabric of our neighborhoods. We wanted to feature the voices of the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center who’s 30-year mission is to provide intensive entrepreneurship training, networking and

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00:29:20

Tipping Point Community

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2021/02/25

“How do we pull all those resources and really make poverty something that is, solvable here in the Bay area” – Kelly BathgateIn this episode, we feature the voices of Kelly Bathgate the Chief Program Officer and Marisa Giller the Communications Director at Tipping Point Community. Tipping Point Community was founded by Daniel Lurie back in 2005 with a systemic approach to ending the cycle of poverty for over one plus millions of our fellow community members in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tipping

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00:28:52

U.S. Small Business Administration

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2021/02/18

“How can we support these businesses that are still here, help new businesses emerge and keep our small business community thriving” - Julie ClowesIn this episode, we feature the voice of Julie Clowes, the District Director of the Small Business. Administration's San Francisco District OfficeOver these ten plus months we have been sharing the voices of small businesses and COVID-19’s devastating impact on their survival. With the latest round of federal funds now being deployed we wanted to host

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