Spotlight on the Community

Updated: 09 May 2025 • 1070 episodes
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19 YEARS AND RUNNING!  THE LONGEST RUNNING COMMUNITY PODCAST IN AMERICA Drew Schlosberg's Spotlight on the Community amplifies the voices of social impact organizations, social entrepreneurs, local non-profits and other community champions who help shape the culture, creativity, and connectivity that drive the San Diego community to ever higher levels.  Come on in and listen to the longest running community podcast in the country, now in its 19th year, brought to you by Mission Fed Credit Union, lifting the San Digo community for over 60 years.   "Spotlight On The Community" is one of 80+ shows from Cloudcast Media, the national leader in local podcasting.  For more information on Cloudcast Media, please visit https://cloudcastmedia.us/

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Juan Carlos Acosta, Artistic Director for SACRA/PROFANA, San Diego's Premiere Professional Choral Ensemble, and William "BJ" Robinson, Director of Music & Art for Christ United Presbyterian Church, the nation's third-oldest Black Presbyterian Church, to talk about the May 25 "Sliding Glass Doors" concert that will take

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Ballard Smith and Dick Freeman, former Presidents of the San Diego Padres Baseball Club, go down memory lane to chat about highlights during their respective tenures. From the signings of Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage, starter Bruce Hurst and first baseman Steve Garvey, to the promotion of the famous San Diego Ch

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Dr. Alexis Avina, Chief Early Childhood Education Officer, chats about the transformative impact of Head Start and Early Head Start; empowering families beyond the classroom; the importance of advocacy for early education and community investment. About Spotlight and Cloudcast Media   "Spotlight On The Community" is th

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Jeffrey Sitcov, President & Founder of Doors of Change, talks about his organization's 24 years of serving more than 23,000 youth. Sitcov discusses the Homeless Youth Advocacy Program;  Angel Team; and the annual Concert of Hope event slated for September 6 at UCSD. About Spotlight and Cloudcast Media   "Spotlight On T

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Rick Fultz, the CEO of Acurion, an exciting new start-up in San Diego's world class life sciences community, joins us in studio to discuss the simple but urgent mission of Acurion: to bring the power of precision medicine to more cancer patients, faster. Behind that mission is a leadership team made up of some of the w

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Eva Matthews, the CEO of Mama's Kitchen, an incredible social impact non-profit which has served over 12 million meals since 1990, joined us in studio to discuss the importance of medically-tailored meals, their recognition as the first on the West Coast to be included in the "Food Is Medicine Coalition" and the launch

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