Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
(VOICES Photo/Josh Garcia)
I picked up Hector Mendoza and Lilliana Lopez and we got to Oracle as fast as we could. Hector was running late for his interview, so he got a crash course on photography from Lilliana in the car. We arrived as the sun began to set, and one of the owners of Jax [...]
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
In the nonprofit world we often talk about the “elevator speech.” An elevator speech is a buzzword that means simply how you tell another person about what your agency does in roughly 30 seconds, or the length of time two people might be on a proverbial elevator together, when one person conveniently asks the other, “VOICES, huh [...]
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
( VOICES Photo collage by: Marena Priday, Michelle Rogers, Maria Aguirre, Samuel Crosswell, Anthony Valencia, Victoria Garcia, Fabian De La Pena)
We polled the staff, youth staff, Board and volunteers of VOICES to learn what people are thankful for in this season of gratitude. Check it out, we’re a thank-filled crew:
“I’m thankful for chickens, turkeys, beets, [...]
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Hello VOICES world,
This is Stephanie, the executive director, blogging for the first but not last time. Today is Veteran’s Day and I am alone in the office catching up on quiet desk work. Since this is my first blog post perhaps it is appropriate for me to introduce myself. I have been at VOICES now [...]
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Stephanie here. Lots of you know that this is a very exciting time for VOICES because we are merging with another youth voice nonprofit called SharMoore Children’s Productions, which takes stories that young people write or illustrate and brings them to a public audience, whether that’s theatre or in book form.
Together, SMPC and VOICES will [...]
