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Why this series?
The goal of creating this special COVID-19 series is to shine a spotlight on all of the wonderfully important nonprofits and their staff that support our community in ways that we may not even be aware of. We hope that our series will provide a platform for these important voices to share what services they provide and how they are struggling to deal with the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on their operations, services and sustainability.
Each episode of the series features voices from a cross section of organizations that make up the fabric of our community. Our fellow community member’s voice brings a unique perspective on how they and we are dealing with the issues facing our community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The initial twelve episodes of the series are part of a series of interviews we conducted through our participation in the Bay Area Video Coalition and their SF Commons program which produced the TV Show titled “San Francisco Nonprofits Spotlight”. The first twelve interviews were conducted via Zoom from April to June 2020 during the height of the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Shelter In Place requirements.
As you explore the episode pages below, and enjoy listening to the insights, points of view and personal stories from the voices of these change makers and their nonprofits featured in the series; Please consider making a donation and volunteering to provide a hand up to your fellow community members. We’d really appreciate your help in sharing out to your network all of the amazing work being performed by these nonprofits in San Francisco that help to inspire us all to work together during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Welcome to our ongoing series on Covid-19’s impact on nonprofits and small businesses in the San Francisco Bay. We will continue to shine a spotlight on the nonprofits, and small businesses that make up the fabric of our community along with the founders and staff who are struggling to deal with the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on their operations, services, and sustainability until we can all get to the other side of the pandemic.
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Episode 1: “Now is a perfect time for understanding the drivers of a person's housing insecurity”
In this episode we feature the voice of Kevin Adler, the Founder and CEO of Miracle Messages. Kevin started Miracle Messages in honor of his uncle Mark, who lived on-and-off the streets for 30 years.
Miracle Messages helps reunite families through helping community members who are unhoused to record short video messages to a family member.
Episode 2: “Food insecurity is just one challenge that our participants face”
In this episode we feature the voice of Katy McKnight, the Director of Community Engagement with the San Francisco Marin Food Bank. The San Francisco Marin Food Bank’s mission is to end hunger in San Francisco and Marin where one in four neighbors is at risk of hunger.
Episode 3: “Two paychecks and a crisis away from, being unhoused”
In this episode we feature the voices of Doniece Sandoval founder and Kris Kepler Chief Program & Strategy Officer of LavaMaeX. LavaMaeX provides radical hospitality to unhoused people through mobile showers, toilets and its pop-up care villages, which provided access to wrap around support services and resources for people experiencing homelessness
Episode 4: “Support all of the performers, artists, designers, directors, writers, and technicians, whenever you can”
In this episode we feature the voice of Michael Gene Sullivan, a Board Member, writer, director and performer of The San Francisco Mime Troupe. Over the past 60 plus years The San Francisco Mime Troupe Collective has created and produced theater through the lens of the working class by exposing social and economic injustice with a call to action to make the necessary changes on behalf of working people.
Episode 5: “Housing is Healthcare”
In this episode we feature the voice of Sammie Rayner, Chief Programming Officer with Community Forward SF. For over four decades Community Forward SF has been helping our unhoused community members to move off the street, find comprehensive services and stabilize their lives.
Episode 6: “I love this book and do you have another one about dinosaurs?”
In this episode we feature the voices of Emily Maksymiuk the Managing Director along with Board Members Risa Schwartz and Maureen McCarthy of the Children’s Book Project. In the last 28 years The Children's Book Project has given away close to 3 million free books for children who need them.
Episode 7: “We welcome the, fullness of someone, regardless of the choices that they've made”
In this episode we feature the voice of Shannon Eizenga, the Executive Director of The Gubbio Project. The Gubbio Project at St Boniface in the Tenderloin and St John's the Evangelist in the Mission districts of San Francisco provide sanctuaries for safe and sacred sleep each day in their pews to over 200 unhoused neighbors.
Episode 8: “So it also leads people to read, the books themselves”
In this episode we feature the voices of Susan Harloe and JoAnne Winter Co-Artistic Directors along with Amy Prosser, the Youth Arts Program Coordinator of Word for Word Performing Arts Company. Over the span of 25 plus years Word For Word has theatrically transcribed and performed over 70 stories by some of the world’s best writers.
Episode 9: “Is there a silver lining to a pandemic?”
In this episode we feature the voice of Meghan Freebeck, the Chief Executive Officer of Project Homeless Connect. Project Homeless Connect is a one stop service agency providing access to all the necessary wrap around services to over 6 thousand people experiencing homelessness annually in San Francisco.
Episode 10: “We realized librarians are first responders”
In this episode we feature the voices of Lucie Faulknor and Dawn Logsdon the CoFounders of Serendipity Films and producers of documentary films: Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans and Free For All: Inside the Public Library
Episode 11: “I think I have found my Tribe”
In this episode we feature the voice of Laurie Thomas, the Executive Director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has been around since 1936 and has supported the efforts of local small business owners to address such issues as collective labor agreements, racketeering and food rationing during World War Two.
Episode 12: “Empower artistic risk in the service of creating new work”
In this episode we feature the voices of Rose Oser, Associate Artistic Director and Shafer Mazow the Managing Director of Z Space. Z Space has become one of the nation’s leading laboratories for developing new voices, new works, and new opportunities in American theater.
Episode 13: City Arts & Lectures
In this episode we feature the voice of Alexandra Washkin, the Design & Communications Director of City Arts and Lectures. This fall, City Arts & Lectures launches its 40th season virtually from the Sydney Goldstein Theater. The Sydney Goldstein Theater was the old Nourse Auditorium that City Arts and Lectures resurrected from being a storage facility for the San Francisco Unified School District.
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Episode 14: Meals on Wheels San Francisco
In this episode we feature the voice of Jim Oswald the Director of Marketing and Communications with Meals on Wheels San Francisco. Over their 50 years of operations in San Francisco Meals on Wheels is the only organization to provide homebound seniors two home-delivered meals a day 7 days a week.
Episode 15: Community Tech Network
In this episode our featured voice is Kami Griffiths, the executive director and co-founder of Community Tech Network. In the 21st Century, access to the internet and devices to participate in the global public square has become a human right. The Covid-19 pandemic has again provided us an X Ray vision of all the negative impacts on our fellow citizens who do not have access to the internet.
Episode 16: Simply the Basics
In this episode, our featured voice is Meghan Freebeck, the Founder and Board President of Simply the Basics. Simply the Basics is focused on providing access to hygiene for our fellow community members who cannot provide this most basic need for themselves and their families. Simply the Basics has created a unique National Hygiene Bank Model as well as piloting an Open Marketplace for people to list in-kind donations.
Episode 17: San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts
In this episode, our featured voice is John Caldon, the Managing Director San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center. The San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center opened in 1932 with the production of Tosca by the San Francisco Opera. The "War Memorial" name commemorates all the people who served in the First World War.
Episode 18: San Francisco Performances
In this episode, our featured voice is Melanie Smith, President of San Francisco Performances. San Francisco Performances is an innovative curator of established classical music, jazz, and dance artists as well as a leading supporter of the next generation of performance artists with a commitment to equity for all.
Episode 19: Huckleberry Youth Programs
In this episode, our featured voice is Doug Styles, the Executive Director of the Huckleberry Youth Programs. During the Summer of Love in 1967 Haight Ashbury San Francisco, Huckleberry Youth Programs became the first shelter for runaways in the nation.
Episode 20: Blue Plate San Francisco
In this episode, our featured voices are Jeff Trenam, Owner, and Shannon Walter the manager of Blue Plate SF a restaurant located on Mission and Valencia Streets in San Francisco. The Covid-19 pandemic and economic downturn have hit our neighborhood restaurants very hard.
Episode 21: SF Made
n this episode, our featured voice is Pierre Coeurdeuil, Director of Advising & Education, at SFMade. San Francisco had forgotten its history of manufacturing with all of the latest booms such as the first dot com boom, then the bio tech boom and now tech boom 2.0.
Episode 22: Nana Joe’s Granola
In this episode, our featured voice is Michelle Pusateri from Nana Joes Granola. Nana Joes Granola is a wonderful example of a local manufacturing startup that has incubated through SFMade. And who’s owner brings her passion for both healthy natural foods and putting the community before profits which is why at Nana Joes Granola every employee is making above minimum wage.
Episode 23: En 2 Action
In this episode, our featured voices are Andrea Baker the founder of both Andrea Baker Consulting and the nonprofit En 2 Action along with Pooja Rajani the Director of Programs who leads the organization’s operations and project management.
Episode 24: Rome’s Kitchen
In this episode, our featured voice is Rome Rogers the founder of Rome’s Kitchen in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco. Rome like many food entrepreneurs decided to take his love of food and hard work and invest in himself to pursue his dream of starting his own restaurant. Rome’s Kitchen is a unique Bayview mash-up of Italian and soul food. I’ll let Rome tell you more about how he came up with this unique blend of food and culture
Episode 25: Tech Exchange
In this episode, our featured voice is Seth Hubbert the Executive Director of Tech Exchange and we are discussing how the digital divide is impacting low income students and their families in Oakland the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Episode 26: Shaping San Francisco
In this episode, our featured voice is Lisa Ruth Elliot the Co-Director of Shaping San Francisco and we’re discuss Shaping San Francisco’s unique model of being a participatory community history project that documents and archives the overlooked stories and memories of San Francisco.
Episode 27: Axis Dance Company
In this episode, our featured voices are Marc Brew the Artistic Director and Choreographer along with Danae Rees the Managing Director of AXIS Dance Company. AXIS Dance Company’s mission is to bring together both disable and non-disabled artists to create a radically inclusive dance sector and world by removing barriers and showcasing the beauty of difference.
Episode 28: Presidio Dance Theatre
In this episode, our featured voice is Sherene Melania the Executive Director and Artistic Director of Presidio Dance Theatre of San Francisco. The Presidio Dance Theatre has a history of cultural and community engagement with a mission to use dance and the arts to educate, inspire, and forge connections between cultures.
Episode 29: At The Crossroads
In this episode, our featured voices are Charles Lerner the Executive Director and Demaree Miller the Program Manager of At the Crossroads. During the Covid-19 pandemic At the Crossroads staff continues to meet youth where they are - living on the streets of San Francisco.
Episode 30: San Francisco Girls Chorus
In this episode, our featured voice is Adriana Marcial the Interim Executive Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus. One of the main goals of The San Francisco Girls Chorus is to teach young women to become wonderful musicians through their extensive music education program.
Episode 31: The Crucible
In this episode, we are focused on our Making Community and our featured voices are Susan Mernit the Executive Director of The Crucible along with Janey Hayes a Glass Artists who is one of the Teaching Artists and Instructors at The Crucible.
Episode 32: Fire Fly Restaurant
In this episode, our featured voices are Brad Levy the owner, Haley Sausner the Chef, and Jay Beaman the Manager of Firefly restaurant.
Episode 33: Peninsula Ballet Theatre
In this episode, our featured voice is Christine Leslie the CEO and Executive Director of the Peninsula Ballet Theatre Our next featured voice is Christine Leslie the CEO and Executive Director of the Peninsula Ballet Theatre.
Episode 34: Candid
In this episode - our featured voices are Jacob Harold the Executive Vice President and Anna Koob the Director of Data Standards of Candid. Back in April 2020 when we decided to create this series on Covid-19’s impact first on nonprofits and then on small businesses in the San Francisco Bay we like you had no idea how long the pandemic would go on and what the health and economic impact would be on our community.
Episode 35: Intersection for the Arts
In this episode our featured voices are Randy Rollison the Executive Director and Allison Snopek the Deputy Director of Intersection for the Arts. This week’s show with Randy and Allison is part of our end of year theme to highlight the importance of nonprofits in our community.
Episode 36: Hayes Valley Bakeworks
In this episode our featured voices are Mark Bailey the head of operations and Martha Martinez the head of production and training at Hayes Valley Bakeworks. We wanted to share the story of Hayes Valley Bakeworks because of its unique self-supporting social enterprise model to provide a workforce training program in the culinary arts.
Episode 37: Joe Goode Performance Group
In this episode, our featured voices are Michelle Lynch Reynolds the Executive Director, and Joe Goode the founder and artistic director, of Joe Goode Performance Group. Over the last thirty-plus years, Joe Goode Performance Group has promoted understanding, compassion, and tolerance among people through innovative dance.
Episode 38: Gratta Winery
This is winemaker and food entrepreneur Barbara Gratta of Gratta Winery and Market in the Bayview district of San Francisco. It's, provided a safe place for people of all backgrounds to gather and meet and actually become friends.
Episode 39: Friends of the Urban Forest
This past summer and fall we experienced the triple threat of a global pandemic, economic meltdown, and catastrophic wildfires that blanketed the San Francisco Bay Area in deadly smoke and toxic air. Our urban forests are one of the most important green infrastructures we can have to help us deal with climate change.
Episode 40: Music at Kohl Mansion
In this episode, our featured voice is Patricia Kristof Moy, the Executive Director of Music at Kohl Mansion. Performing arts organizations generate a big percentage of their annual revenue through earned income in the form of ticket sales of live performances.
Episode 41: All Good Pizza
In this episode our featured voice is Kristin Houk the Owner of All Good Pizza, TATO, and Café Alma. Kristin is part of the Bayview woman food entrepreneurs who are change-makers and community leaders providing jobs, healthy food options, and a hand up to their fellow community members.
Episode 42: The Glide Foundation
In this episode our featured voices are George Gundry, the Director of the Free Meals Program and Kenneth Kim, Senior Director of Programs of GLIDE.
With all of the death and economic destruction that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought down upon our community one of the hardest-hit neighborhoods is the Tenderloin.
Episode 43: The Dancer’s Group
In this episode, we feature the voice of Wayne Hazzard, the Cofounder and Executive Director of Dancers Group
The Dancers Group was born in the middle of the AIDS crisis has evolved over the decades as a service organization providing wrap around fiscal sponsorship programs and services to incubate and support artists.
Episode 44: Community Music Center
In this episode, we feature the voice of Julie Rulyak Steinberg The Executive Director of the Community Music Center.
We wanted to feature the community Music Center because it is an anchor in our arts and culture ecosystem that has been supporting the training, cultivation and celebration of music from children to seniors since 1921.
Episode 45: Small Business Administration
In this episode, we feature the voice of Julie Clowes, the District Director of the Small Business. Administration's San Francisco District Office. Over these ten plus months we have been sharing the voices of small businesses
Episode 46: Alan Spector
In this episode, we feature the voice of Al Spector, an advisor to non-profit and mission-driven organizations. Given the financial struggles of both our nonprofits and small business organizations we wanted to feature Al and ask him to share both his expertise and best practices
Episode 47: The Tipping Point Community
In 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 million of our fellow community members in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tipping Point’s model is different from a traditional philanthropic organization or a foundation.
Episode 48: Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center
In this episode, we feature the voices of Sharon Miller the Chief Executive Officer, and Tim Russell the Program Director of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center. Today’s episode is part of our efforts to better understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses and entrepreneurs that make up the economic fabric of our neighborhoods.
Episode 49: Project Artivisim
In this episode, our featured voices are Justin Hoover the Director of Programs, and Karim Zelenka the Chief of Staff at Project Artivism.
Episode 50: What is Civic Innovation
In this episode, 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.
Episode 51: BMagic and 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic
In this episode, we feature the voices of Lyslynn Lacoste the Executive Director of BMagic, and Sakeenah El-Amin the Deputy Director of the Third Street Youth Center and Clinic.
Episode 52: InterMusic SF
In 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.
Episode 53: Serendipity Store
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 looking for data on the impact on small businesses from the combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic collapse. This episode features data points that provide context to our interview with Lisa Sherratt.
Episode 54: Edgewood Center
Our 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.
Episode 55: Women’s Audio Mission
In this episode we feature the voices of Managing Director Elena BotKin–Levy and the Director of Education Leah King of Women’s Audio Mission. Women’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 individuals to develop, produce and share their stories
Episode 56: Return to the Stage
In 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 – A Performing Arts Workforce Study”.
Episode 57: SFOEWD - Joaquin Torres
Our featured voice in this episode is Joaquin Torres, the former Director of the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the new San Francisco Assessor-Recorder. In this special hour-long episode, we wanted to focus on the City and County of San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development.
Episode 58: Left Coast Theater Company
In this episode, our featured voice is playwright, 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.
Episode 59: Opera Parallele
In 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…
Episode 60: Theatre Bay Area
In 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.
Episode 61: CalNonprofits
In this episode, our featured voices are Public Policy Director Lucy Salcido Carter and Christina Dragonetti the Outreach and Communications Director at CalNonprofits.
Episode 62: Common Knowledge Library Panel
In this episode our featured voices are the Founder and Executive Director 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 Wolfgram.
Episode 63: Uplifting Family Services
In 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.
Episode 64: Literacy for Environmental Justice
In this episode our featured voices are Executive Director Justice Patrick Marley Rump, Senior Development Consultant LeeAndrea Morton, and Community Program Coordinator Alex Velasco of Literacy for Environmental Justice.
Episode 65: Small Business Panel
In this special episode we wanted to provide a broader understanding of the status of our small businesses by bringing together voices from small business owners, members of merchant associations that represent multiple small businesses across the City of San Francisco.
Episode 66: Californians for the Arts
In this episode our featured voice is the Executive Director of Californians for the Arts Julie Baker. The focus of this week’s show is on how the covid-19 pandemic is impacting our creative economy, its workforce, state legislation to support the recovery of the creative economy as well as how a historical San Francisco outdoor music festival is reopening within a pandemic.
Episode 67: Stern Grove Music Festival
In this episode, our featured voice is the Director of Development of Stern Grove Festival Ilana Vasconcelos. With the State of California officially reopening on June 15th and performing arts organizations working their way through all of the ever-changing health and safety protocols we wanted to feature one of the oldest outdoor music festivals in the City of San Francisco
Episode 68: Compass Family Services
Our featured voice in this episode is the Director of External Affairs & Policy of Compass Family Services Mary Kate Bacalao. The focus of this week’s show is on how the covid-19 pandemic is impacting our un-housed and low-income children and families.
Episode 69: Rafael House
Our featured voices in this episode are Cecilia Ferber the Director of Family Services and Marc Slater the Executive Director, of Raphael House. With over 15 months into the pandemic our most vulnerable families are continuing to face housing problems and securing support services.
Episode 70: Vital Arts & Northern California Land Trust
With the health and financial impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and a low inventory of housing, especially live work and warehouse space, the focus of this week’s episode is on housing for our artist's community members. Our featured voices are the executive consultant for Vital Arts, Kathryn Reasoner, and the Executive Director of the Northern California Land Trust Ian Winters who share about their work with our artist's community to develop solutions to deal with the pandemic’s ongoing impact on their housing.
Episode 71: Jennifer Baity
In this episode, our featured voice is Jennifer Baity, a therapist in private practice who does training on motivational interviewing and other topics for various agencies throughout the bay area and beyond.
Episode 72: Oasis for Girls
In this episode our featured voice is the Executive Director of Oasis for Girls Anu, Menon. A poll from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital shows that one in three teen girls and one in five teen boys have experienced new or worsening anxiety from the pandemic.
Episode 73: Bayview Opera House
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 cultural and arts programs.
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Episode 74: San Francisco Radio Club
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 nonprofits that are supporting our community through providing emergency communication services as well as educating and training community members in amateur radio and emergency mesh operations.
Episode 75: Miracle Money Pilot
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.
Episode 76: Coaltion on Homelessness
In this episode we continue with our theme in featuring voices of nonprofit community leaders who are working on solutions for our thousands of un-housed neighbors, how the pandemic has impacted their work and what solutions they see coming out of the pandemic to support their work and the un-housed community members they work with.
Episode 77: Rebuilding Together San Francisco
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.
Episode 78: East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
In this episode our featured voice is the Executive Director of the East Bay, Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Noni Session. We wanted to host the east bay permanent real estate cooperative on the show because they have developed a unique grass roots model to address some of the systemic housing and community issues that have faced our communities for over the last 50 plus years.
Episode 79: St. Anthony’s
In this episode, our featured voice is the chief executive officer of St Anthony’s Nils Behnke.
We wanted to feature the voice of a legacy social service organization that’s approach to providing a hand up to our low-income and un-housed community members is that of seeing them as guests and walking with them on their journey.
Episode 80: Shipyard Trust for the Arts
In this episode, our featured voice is the President and CEO of the Shipyard Trust for the Arts Barbara Ockel.
In this episode, our focus and theme are 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.
Episode 81: Youth Spirit Artwork
Our featured voices in this episode 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.
Episode 82: Live Panel Show
In this special one hour panel discussion episode 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 for Word’s Youth Arts program coordinator Amy Prosser and the President of the Board of the Children’s Book Project Risa Schwartz.
Episode 83: Live Performing Arts Panel
In this episode our featured voices are the Executive Director of San Francisco Performances, Melanie Smith, the Design and Communications Director of City Arts & Lectures, Allie Washkin, the Managing Director of the San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center, John Caldon, the Executive Director of Music at Kohl Mansion, Patricia Kristof Moy, and the Board Member, writer, director and performer of The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Michael Gene Sullivan as well as co-researcher and co-author of the nation’s largest survey of performing arts workers Return to the Stage, Meg Friedman.
Episode 84: Live Small Business & Digital Marketing Panel
In this episode our featured voices are Michelle Pusateri, of Nana Joes Granola, Kristin Houk, of All Good Pizza, TATO & Cafe Alma, Pooja Rajani, of En2action along with Valerie, Camarada of Marketing Sense and Rebecca Bertoldi, from Rebecca Bertoldi Marketing
Company.
Episode 85: Hospitality House
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.
Episode 86: Blue Heart & APIENC
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-resourced organizations such as APIENC [API Equality - Northern California] who works with our Asian American and Pacific Islander Trans, Queer & working-class BIPOC [Black Indigenous and People of Color] community members.
Episode 87: Resources for Community Development
In this episode, our featured voices are the Executive Director, of Resources for Community Development Dan Sawislak, the Director of Community Development Breann Gala along with resident and Secretary of the Resources for Community Development board of directors Kattye Giles.
Episode 88: The Oral Lee Brown Foundation
In this episode our featured voices are the Executive Director Phyllis Opara and Board of Directors member Philip Palmer along with foundation Alumni members Rotha So and Albert Jenkins. Our guests share how Miss Brown’s promise to Oakland's most at-risk youth…
Episode 89 Community Forward SF
In this episode, we bring Sammie back along with Felicia Torrez the Director of Development at Community Forward SF and Poly Pop-Tart, Drag Queen, Stand-Up Comedian and Performer to focus on Community Forward SF’s upcoming Drag Show to End Homelessness “Stepping Out”.
Episode 90: Redwood Empire Food Bank
This episode is focused on the work of the Redwood Empire Food Bank which provides one of the most basic needs, food, along with wraparound services to our north bay community members. Our featured guests are Chief Executive Officer, David Goodman, Director of Programs, Alison Goodwin as well as food bank services, recipient and volunteer, Sam Cagle, and Programs Coordinator, Juana Renovato.
Episode 91: Arts & Culture Economy Panel
This episode is focused on the importance and economic impact of the arts, culture, and artists on both our economy and our communities. We hosted a panel of guests from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Californians for the Arts, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to provide us their insights…
Episode 92: CalNonprofits Policy & Legislation
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 secure funding and resources to enable them to both stabilize and recover stronger as we come out of the pandemic economy.
Episode 93: San Francisco Mime Troupe-“Back to the Way Things Were”
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 public parks.
Episode 94: Roots Community Health Center
Welcome to our special on the importance of our community health care centers and how they are being impacted by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In this episode we are featuring the voices and work of Roots Community Health Center.
Episode 95: The Reinvention Of Downtown San Francisco
Our show today 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 have developed studies plans and funding to attempt to reinvent the downtown San Francisco community.
Episode 96: Mission Assets Fund (MAF)
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 this episode how Mission Asset Fund [MAF] stepped up to create financial programs and support to help stabilize thousands of immigrant families in our community.
Episode 97: The Flower Piano
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.
Episode 98: The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 2
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
Episode 99: The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 3
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.
Episode 100: The Red Shades & 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 pandemic to bring you a very unique show The Red Shades: A Trans Superhero Rock Opera.
Episode 101: 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 experts to help us better understand both the Pros and Cons of both State and City propositions.
Episode 102: Miracle Messages Update
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.
Episode 103: Skywatchers Ensemble
In this episode our featured voices are 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
Episode 104: Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing for the City & County of San Francisco
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.
Episode 105: Foundations for Social Change
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.
“I’m optimistic by all of these small acts of kindness. I think that this pandemic has kind of shaken us to our core, woken us up a little bit and said, you know, we’ve been living in these little bubbles, sort of very self-oriented. And that’s changed, people are making masks, shields, donating, to their local restaurants, checking on a neighbor to see if they have the food and the groceries they need. I hope all of these acts of kindness are changing our societal DNA.”