Help Us Build a Vineyard
We are seeking volunteers to help launch the vineyard at the ranch. It won’t take too long! Volunteer for 3 hours outside and help us set up the trellises. In March, […]
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Seaside Courier: Former Poinsettia Ranch now a center for Jewish ideals
/in Recent PressPosted: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 12:15 pm By Tawny Maya McCray for the Seaside Courier A nonprofit has been transforming what is left of the once-expansive Ecke Ranch into a […]
Tu B’Shevat at the Ranch 2014
/in Jewish Food Justice Fellowship, Leichtag News, North County Hub, North County Jewish Life, Programs, RanchLast month, the Jewish Food Justice Fellowship and the North County Jewish Hub hosted a Tu B’Shevat at the Ranch celebration. The fellows taught people of all ages about composting, […]
San Diego Jewish Film Festival on KPBS
/in Leichtag News, North County Jewish Life, Recent Press, SD-IsraelDid you hear KPBS’s report on the San Diego Jewish Film Festival?
Announcing the San Diego Food Funders
/in Leichtag NewsThis week we hosted the SAFSF National Steering Committee. We are proud to announce the Leichtag Foundation has joined as a member. SAFSF is an international network of grantmakers that […]
Remembering Murray Galinson z"l
/in Leichtag News“Friend and peacemaker.” This is how we remember Murray Galinson z”l, a revered and beloved board member of ours, who passed away last year. This week we joined his daughter […]
Letter to the Community, 2014
/in Leichtag NewsJanuary 2014 Shevat 5774 Dear Friends, Food seems to be a common thread in much of our work so perhaps it is no surprise that these days, we find our […]
Dr. Jeffrey R. Solomon Joins Leichtag Foundation Board of Directors
/in Leichtag News, Press ReleasesEncinitas, CA / December 9, 2013 – The Leichtag Foundation is happy to announce the appointment of Dr. Jeffrey R. Solomon, President of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, to its board […]
How America’s War on Poverty is changing
/in Leichtag News, Self-SufficiencyThis was an interesting read on how America’s War on Poverty is changing, from Oxfam America. Low-wage jobs today are not a path out of poverty, but a trap within […]
Jerusalem Social Entrepreneurs and Artists Awarded Funds by Leichtag Foundation / JFN Matching Grant Program
/in Jerusalem, Recent PressReposted from eJewish Philanthropy: An artists’ project, a dance company, and an NGO that uses film to promote nonviolence among Israelis and Palestinians are among the 10 grantees from the […]
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.