KUSF Community Crusade
THE KUSF COMMUNITY CRUSADE offers community organizations support through daily, on-air public service announcements (PSAs).
August 2006 :
- Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA)
- KickStart
August 2006 Community Crusade - Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA)This August, KUSF's Community Crusade celebrates the work of Engineers Without Borders, USA. EWB-USA partners with developing communities worldwide to improve their quality of life. Their activities range from the construction of sustainable engineering projects for developing communities to empowering these communities by enhancing local, technical, managerial and entrepreneurial skills.
Next month, the San Francisco Professionals Chapter of Engineers Without Borders holds its annual fundraiser, SFARI. The event will raise donations for the India-Tsunami Project and the Tanzania Water Supply Project, and will feature African and Indian music and dance, hors d'oeuvre, a silent auction, and EWB-USA project displays. The fundraiser takes place on Thursday, September 7th, from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and is open to the public.
For tickets to SFARI or for further information on how you can help the San Francisco Professionals Chapter of Engineers Without Borders, visit the organization online at www.ewb-sfp.org.
August 2006 Community Crusade - KickStartThis August, KUSF's Community Crusade salutes the work of KickStart. KickStart's mission is to help millions of people out of poverty. They promote sustainable economic growth and employment creation in Kenya and other countries by developing and promoting technologies that can be used by dynamic entrepreneurs to establish and run profitable small scale enterprises. They create new jobs and wealth, enabling the poor to climb out of their poverty forever.
KickStart believes that self-motivated private entrepreneurs managing small-scale enterprises are the most effective agents for developing economies. KickStart has helped to start over 41,000 new businesses, averaging 800 new enterprises per month. These businesses generate $41 million a year in new profits and wages on the African continent,while lifting countless families out of poverty forever.
For further information on the work being done by KickStart and how you can get involved, call (415) 346-4820, or visit KickStart online at www.kickstart.org.
ARCHIVED CRUSADES 2006
April, 2006: Community Thrift Store; The Volunteer Center
March, 2006: Mental Health Association of San Francisco; San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium
February, 2006: Audium; Healing Muses
January, 2006: The Film Noir Foundation; The Goethe-InstitutARCHIVED CRUSADES 2005
November, 2005: San Francisco Film Society; Media Alliance
October, 2005: SF Bicycle Coalition; Rides for Bay Area Commuters
September, 2005: SF Bicycle Coalition; Rides for Bay Area Commuters
July, 2005: The ReUse People; Golden Gate Council
June, 2005: Intersection for the Arts; Frameline
May, 2005: Garden Project; Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
April, 2005: Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company; Theatre Rhinoceros
March, 2005: San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum; ArtSF
February, 2005: The Women's Building; GirlVentures
January, 2005: The Volunteer Center of San Francisco; Northern California Service LeagueARCHIVED CRUSADES 2004
December, 2004: Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly; Meals on Wheels
November, 2004: Mickaboo Cockateil Rescue; Pets Unlimited
October, 2004: Craigslist Foundation; Action Without Borders
September, 2004: Music in Schools Today; LEAP - Imagination in Learning
August, 2004: Shaping San Francisco; SF Neighborhood Theater Foundation
July, 2004: ZEUM; Youth Speaks
June, 2004: SPCARE; Healing Muses
May, 2004: Cartoon Art Museum & Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
April, 2004: San Francisco Media Archive & Bay Area Video CoalitionARCHIVED CRUSADES 2003
March, 2003: Cartoon Art Museum & Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
January, 2003: Friends of the Urban Forest & Save the Bay
February, 2003: Hospice by the Bay & Lyon-Martin Women's Health ServicesARCHIVED CRUSADES 2002
December, 2002: San Francisco Rescue Mission & San Francisco Food Bank
November, 2002: San Francisco City Carshare & San Francisco Bicycle Coalition