Emergency Grants for Aleppo Emergency Medical Relief
Leichtag Foundation to provide $75,000 in Emergency Grants for Aleppo Emergency Medical Relief We have reached a point of crisis in Aleppo, Syria and are witnessing a government that is […]
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The Coast News – Refugee, immigrants make art with a message
/in Leichtag News, North County Jewish LifeRefugee, immigrants make art with a message
Sukkot Harvest Festival – Sunday October 23rd
/in Coastal Roots Farm, Leichtag News, North County Jewish LifeCoastal Roots Farm announces its annual Sukkot Harvest Festival. Sunday October 23rd Suggested Donation of $15 Buy Tickets Now! *Tickets are very limited!* The afternoon will be filled with farm […]
Press Release: Refugee Arts Exhibition Featuring Syrian Refugee And Israeli Artist
/in Leichtag News, North County Jewish Life, Press ReleasesLEICHTAG FOUNDATION HOSTS REFUGEE ARTS EXHIBITION FEATURING SYRIAN REFUGEE AND ISRAELI ARTIST Contact: Joshua Sherman Communications & Creative Manager joshua [at] leichtag.org For Immediate Release: ENCINITAS, CA – September 21st, […]
One Year Later: Our Work with San Diego’s Syrian Refugee Community
/in Leichtag News, North County Jewish Life, Self-SufficiencyRead it on Medium Read this post on Medium to get the full experience! “The stranger that lives with you shall be to you like the native, and you shall […]
Building Bridges: An Extraordinary Meal Creates Hope for One Syrian Refugee Family
/in Coastal Roots Farm, Leichtag News, Self-SufficiencyOne of the most important things Leichtag Foundation strives to do is to build bridges. To connect nonprofits with each other, to connect resources to those in need, to connect […]
Refugee Artists-in-Residence
/in Leichtag NewsIn July 2016, Israeli artist Raffael Lomas converted an unused barn at Leichtag Commons into a gorgeous “maker’s space,” and sought to use it as a safe space to help […]
Smithsonian Magazine features Coastal Roots Farm’s Edible Forest
/in Coastal Roots Farm, Coastal Roots Farm, JewishCommunityFarming, Leichtag News, North County Jewish Life, Recent PressMove Over, Community Gardens: Edible Forests Are Sprouting Up Across America “Food forests are designed to plant more edibles in public spaces to help localize food, address food deserts and […]
Coastal Roots Farm opens to the public
/in Coastal Roots Farm, Leichtag News, Recent PressCoastal Roots Farm opens to the public
Press Release: Coastal Roots Farm Opens its Farm Stand in Encinitas
/in Coastal Roots Farm, Press ReleasesFor Immediate Release: Coastal Roots Farm Opens its Farm Stand in Encinitas to Make Fresh Produce Available to All A new social enterprise makes high quality biodynamically-grown produce available to people of […]
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.