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Entries by Connie Lu
Comings and Goings: Leichtag Foundation
/in Featured, Leichtag NewsChaya Gilboa has assumed the position of Director of Jewish Engagement of the Leichtag Foundation and Leichtag Commons. A native Jerusalemite and a longtime educator known around the globe for […]
Ilana Kaufman appointed Director of Jews of Color Field Building Initiative
/in Featured, Leichtag NewsIlana Kaufman has been appointed Director of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative effective August 1, 2018. Ilana previously served as a Program Officer at the San Francisco Federation […]
What Makes a Co-Working Space Jewish?
/in HIVE, HIVE FeaturedFeatures Jenny Camhi, Hive Director Open the door to this co-working space in Atlanta, and a long table with people working, typing and talking away confronts you. Exposed brick and […]
Inverting the Knowledge Capital
/in Featured, Leichtag Newsby Charlene Seidle, Executive Vice President Are donor advised funds merely a tax shelter for the reluctantly philanthropic? This seems to be the overriding premise of “How Tech Billionaires Hack […]
Israel Studies
/in Grant Stories, San Diego-Israel ConnectionsIsrael Institute https://israelinstitute.org/ The Israel Institute enhances knowledge about modern Israel through the expansion of accessible, innovative learning opportunities, on and beyond campus. The Institute’s many programs and initiatives advance […]
Food Systems
/in Grant Stories, Self-SufficiencySan Diego Food System Alliance www.sdfsa.org As a multi-sector collaborative, the San Diego Food System Alliance (the Alliance) creates system level changes by connecting, coordinating and catalyzing actions that promote […]
Pathways to Economic Security
/in Grant Stories, Self-SufficiencyAccion https://us.accion.org A nationwide nonprofit lending network, Accion provides fair and flexible loans, connections to business experts, and access to resources and opportunities specifically tailored to each business owner’s unique […]
Healthy Food Access
/in Grant Stories, Self-SufficiencyProduce Good www.producegood.org Addressing food waste and food insecurity in San Diego County with the help of a strong volunteer corps, Produce Good harvests unused produce and distributes it into […]
Ultra-Orthodox Community Workforce Development & Career Advancement
/in Grant Stories, Jerusalem RenewalTemech http://temech.org Temech provides the financial, socioeconomic and professional tools needed to raise the employability and professional levels of Ultra-Orthodox women, thereby reducing their poverty and dependence on social services […]
Stacie and Jeff Cook understand commitment. They live it.
Black, Jewish and Queer. These three identities weave the fabric of who I am, but it took a long time to believe that they could exist together.
Lee and Toni Leichtag established the Leichtag Foundation in 1991 following the sale of their business. Lee and Toni were lifelong entrepreneurs with a passion for innovation and for supporting talent. They believed that only with big risk comes big reward. Both born to families in poverty, Toni to a single mother, they strongly believed in helping those most in need and most vulnerable in our community. While they supported many causes, their strongest support was for young children and the elderly, two demographics who particularly lack voice in our society.
Lifelong Baltimoreans, Rabbi George and Alison Wielechowski and their sons, 11-year-old Lennon and 9-year-old Gideon, are more than pursuing the good life in Southern California. Having moved to San Diego more than three years ago, they are fulfilling a lifelong dream.
You would think that as the executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, Fernando Zweifach López Jr., who uses the pronoun they, has done all the coming out they possibly can. A queer, non-binary individual who has worked for many years on civil rights issues, López also speaks openly and often about their father’s family, Mexican-American migrant workers who tilled the fields of rural California.