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Nonprofit Fundraising Beyond the Pandemic: Four Key Lessons
/in Featured, Leichtag Newsby Bobby LaCour, CPA – Aldrich Advisors Aldrich Advisors recently hosted a webinar on Fundraising During COVID-19 with special guest Sharyn Goodson of the Leichtag Foundation. We had a great conversation on some […]
Sharyn Goodson honored by Assembly District 76
/in Uncategorized– Press Release taken from California State Assembly Democratic Caucus, Tasha Boerner Horvath site Boerner Horvath Announces 2021 Women of Impact Recipients for Assembly District 76 CARLSBAD — Assemblymember Tasha […]
Leo Spiegel joins Leichtag Foundation board
/in Featured, Leichtag News, UncategorizedThis article was originally published in The Encinitas Advocate The Leichtag Foundation recently welcomed Leo Spiegel to its board of directors effective Jan. 28, 2021. Spiegel is a well-respected investment […]
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.