Streetside Stories was featured on yesterday's
Forum with Michael Krasny. The show focused on the state of youth literacy, and
organizations (like Streetside) who are working to improve it.
Streetside Director Linda Johnson and Streetside alum Nina Perez
appeared, along with literacy advocate (and Star Trek cast member)
LeVar Burton, Ninive Calegari and Belinda Man from our nonprofit
colleagues
826 Valencia, and education professor Susan Neuman. The
show features some lively discussion about how community
organizations, parents and schools can help kids become literate
citizens.
If you haven't heard Forum on KQED 88.5 before, it's an excellent
show that goes in depth about important issues. You can listen to
the show on KQED's website, and even load it onto your iPod!
The show is archived
here.
The Giants Community Fund is great! First, they gave us a grant for $10,000 to support this year's
Storytelling Exchange anthology. Then, they invited us to Education Night at their beautiful ballpark on September 29. We had fun going out on the field with the other grantees, and they even flashed our name on the scoreboard throughout the game.
Omar Vizquel was being honored too, and he's a great guy! The only flaw in an otherwise perfect night was that the Giants lost to the Dodgers.
Special thanks go to Craig Alexander of the Giants Fund, who helped us through the process.
