In addition to serving community banking needs, many of our financial institutions also work to improve the lives of San Diegans. Banks strengthen effective nonprofits through generous funding and by encouraging their employees to volunteer in a variety of ways.
Join us for an engaging panel conversation with senior representatives of these local financial institutions. We’ll have the opportunity to better understand their giving models and application processes as well as hear about upcoming initiatives, high-priority focus areas or trends that they see in philanthropic giving.
Panelists:
• Neville Billimoria, Senior Vice President of Membership & Chief Advocacy Officer, Mission Federal Credit Union
• Maria Chan, Senior Vice President, Commercial Banking and Nonprofit Specialist, City National Bank
• Rockette Ewell, Vice President, Community Development Manager, Southern California, U.S. Bank
• JR Raines, Vice President, Senior Foundation Manager, MUFG Union Bank Foundation
Register early. Meet the Funders offers the time and space for a lively, informal, and enjoyable discussion about philanthropy and the opportunity to network with colleagues!
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.