What does leadership in a crisis look like? In recent months, nonprofits have demonstrated remarkable agility: revisiting organizational priorities, identifying alternate funding streams, working differently with staff and volunteers, and more.
Join us for a conversation with CEOs and board leadership from three local organizations to learn how they are protecting their organizations, serving their communities, and preparing for tomorrow amidst the pandemic.
Speakers include:
- Jodi Diamond, CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of Oceanside
- Gigi Gleason, President and Chief Volunteer Officer, Boys & Girls Clubs of Oceanside
- Michael Hopkins, CEO, Jewish Family Service of San Diego
- Adam Welland, Board Chair, Jewish Family Service of San Diego
- Don Wells, Chief Empowerment Officer, Just in Time for Foster Youth
- Brad Livingston, Board Chair, Just in Time for Foster Youth
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.