“How can we  support these businesses that are still here, help new businesses emerge and keep our small business community thriving” - Julie Clowes

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 and COVID-19’s devastating impact on their survival. With the latest round of federal funds now being deployed we wanted to host Julie to help guide our listeners through the funding opportunities available to both nonprofits and small businesses

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“It's that vision that's really the difficult thing and it's challenging in the environment that we're in” - Al 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 to hopefully help folks through the process of securing funding through the various funding opportunities. 

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“It sends a message that we believe as a society that we are all better when we take care of each other” - Wayne Hazzard

In this episode our featured voice is  the CoFounder and Executive Director of Dancers' Group Wayne Hazzard. 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, 

To find out more about Dancers' Group and to In Dance publication, become a member, support one of the artists and or dance companies they fiscally sponsor support and donate to the COVID-19 Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund go to dancers' group dot org

Wayne mentioned his work with Theater Bay Area and the COVID-19 Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund. Please listen to Episode 12 and our interview with Rose Oser and Shafer Mazow from ZSPACE to find out more about the Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund. Wayne also spoke about his work with Intersection for the Arts to develop a multi-disciplinary space for arts organizations in San Francisco. Please listen to our interview with Allison Snopek and Randy Rollison from Intersections for the Arts in Episode 35 where we provided more details on the economics of arts and culture.

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“We're learning a lot from our Community Hubs participation and seeing how really hands-on Arts Rich Learning for students in small environments has a huge impact on their wellbeing” - Julie Rulyak Steinberg

In this episode our featured voice is the Executive Director of Community Music Center Julie Rulyak Steinberg. 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. 
 

To sign up for a free class in February, and find out more about all of the classes and education programs the Community Music Center offers please go to s f c m c dot org

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“We all know when you're hungry, you know, really nothing else matter”- George Gundry

In this episode our featured voices are George Gundry, the Director of the Free Meals Program, 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.

The Tenderloin neighborhood is still one of the few affordable neighborhoods left that new immigrant families can afford to live in which has helped the neighborhood to be one of the most diverse. The Tenderloin is home to over 3,500 kids and 30 languages. It is also one of the poorer neighborhoods with a median family income of around $31,000 which is less than half of the citywide average of $78,000. Over 30% of households have incomes less than $15,000 thus around 30% of the residents live in poverty. The Tenderloin has a history of high crime, particularly violent street crime such as robbery and aggravated assault, an un-controlled open drug market, and thousands of un-housed community members struggling to stay alive during the Pandemic.

Within the context of the Tenderloin neighborhood, our featured voices from the Glide family George Gundry, the Director of the Free Meals Program, and Kenneth Kim the Senior Director of Programs share with you the passion, understanding, and helping hand that are part of the legacy of Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani’s mission of “creating a radically inclusive, just and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization”

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We still have a tremendous need and there's a lot of hungry people ”- Kristin Houk

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. To find out more about Kristin’s three restaurants as well as the community events and guest chef events please go to all good pizza dot com tato sf dot com and café alma sf dot com 

You can listen to the story of Kristin’s friend April Spears and her Auntie April's Chicken and Waffles in Part 1 of our Doing Business in the Bayview Series in our Archives.

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“ Two people came to us with actual instruments, from the holocaust that were played by their relatives.“ - Patricia Kristof Moy

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. Music at the Kohl Mansion is another legacy presenter of arts and culture that has lost 80% of its funding because of the one two punch of the Covid-19 pandemic and economic collapse of our performing arts sector. Patricia tells us how she and her team are transforming their intimate in person chamber music performances on to a global virtual stage

To purchase the Violins of Hope at Kohl Mansion album that was released on January 21st 2021 to coincide with the upcoming International Holocaust Remembrance Day and 76th Commemoration of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau please go to pentatone music dot com and search for violins of hope to buy and download the album 

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We have to be hyper-aware of social justice and environmental justice”- Dan Flanagan

In this episode our featured voice is that of long time Executive Director of Friends of the Urban Forest Dan Flanagan.

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 and the hottest years on record.

Trees in our city help us address the social and environmental justice issues facing our fellow community members in low-income neighborhoods. The city trees help filter the air pollution, retain rainwater, provide shade and their very presence helps reduce our stress levels, blood pressure and increases our mental engagement and happiness. And trees may help lower  property and violent crime. In a 2010 USDA Forest Service Study research forester Geoffrey Donovan found that “large street trees can reduce crime by signaling to a potential criminal that a neighborhood is better cared for and therefore, a criminal is more likely to be caught”

To find out more information about how our Urban Forest helps us mitigate environmental injustice, about Friends of the Urban Forest, along with requesting a free tree to plant near your home or business and to support more trees for our city please go to FUF dot net  

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“It's, provided a safe place for people of all backgrounds to gather and meet and actually become friends” - Barbara Gratta

In this episode our featured voice is that of winemaker and food entrepreneur Barbara Gratta of Gratta Winery and Market in the Bayview district of San Francisco.

We’ve been sharing stories about economic development and small business incubation in the Bayview Hunters Point communities since 2015. For more context to our interview with Barbara Gratta please go to our Archives section and take a listen to our two-part series Doing Business in the Bayview. In part two of that series, we introduce you to Barbara and she shares more about her background and her love of making wine along with her efforts to work with the community in the Bayview neighborhood.

To find out more about the Bayview Stories please listen to episode 23 with Andrea Baker and Pooja Rajani and episode 24 with Rome Rogers from Rome's Kitchen. You can also listen to the story of April Spears and her Auntie April's Chicken and Waffles in Part 1 of our Doing Business in the Bayview Series in our Archive. And in that same Part 1 show we introduce you to Barbara Ockel the Executive Director of the Bayview Opera House who shares the history of the opera house and its importance in the Bayview community. To find out more about Gratta Winery and Market and to support their store go to gratta wines dot com 

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“All of us take these things for granted, that they're always there” - Mark Bailey

In this episode our first 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. Hayes Valley Bakeworks trains people with disabilities, formerly homeless people and people who are at risk. Hayes Valley Bakeworks was created by Toolworks which is the parent social enterprise that is a self-supporting nonprofit agency. Toolworks is dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities and operates two other workforce training programs through providing janitorial services and recycling services for businesses

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