"Making Ends Meet" Study In The News
300K households need help to pay basic expenses, report says FOX5 San Diego SAN DIEGO — A family of four needs to earn more than $84,700 annually to make ends […]
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Making Ends Meet: A New Study on Self-Sufficiency in San Diego
/in Leichtag News, Press Releases, Recent Press, Self-SufficiencyLeichtag Foundation co-funded the Making Ends Meet report with United Way to draw attention to the fact that reducing poverty and economic hardship requires more than just helping people find […]
New Spirit – Leading Change From Within Jerusalem
/in Jerusalem, VideoThis is a great video that describes the situation in Jerusalem and the work of one of our major grantees, New Spirit. New Spirit believes that young people are the engine […]
Food Justice in North County – Edible San Diego Spring 2014
/in Jewish Food Justice Fellowship, Leichtag News, Ranch, Recent PressIf you’re anything like us, when you discover there’s a new issue of Edible San Diego at the farmer’s market, you become borderline giddy. “Can I take more than one?” […]
Newest LF Board Member Jeff Solomon Visits Go Green
/in Leichtag NewsOur newest board member Dr. Jeffrey R. Solomon visited the ranch this week for the Leichtag Foundation quarterly board meeting. We’re so proud to have him join the board! Dr. Jeffrey […]
Food Justice on KPBS’s "A Growing Passion"
/in Jewish Food Justice Fellowship, Leichtag News, Recent Press, Self-SufficiencyThe Jewish Food Justice Fellowship (JFJF) is made up of seven young individuals from around the U.S. and Israel, working with local food security nonprofits in the North County San Diego region. […]
Volunteers Building More Than Just a Vineyard
/in Jewish Food Justice Fellowship, Leichtag News, North County Jewish Life, RanchA deep and profound thank you is deserved to all of our amazing volunteers who helped us build the trellises for the vineyard yesterday. It was such a thrill to […]
"From Poinsettia to Christmas Berry" – High Point Restoration in U-T San Diego
/in Recent PressFrom U-T San Diego, Feb 20th, 2014: As Escondido landscape designer Greg Rubin toured the Leichtag foundation’s community farm project in Encinitas, one thing caught his attention: a steep […]
Go Green Agriculture featured on "A Growing Passion" on KPBS
/in RanchOn this last week’s episode of “A Growing Passion” on KPBS, host Nan Sterman declares “Agriculture is undergoing a major transformation.” That’s why we’re happy to have Go Green Agriculture (Facebook) […]
Rewilding the High Point
/in Leichtag News, RanchWe’ve begun rewilding the “High Point”, the butte that represents the highest natural point on the property. Rewilding means clearing out invasive and non-native species, and replacing these with native […]
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.