Since the pandemic began, its ripple effects have hit vulnerable North County community members especially hard. We have seen increases in food insecurity, job loss, homelessness, and more.
Join us for a reflective conversation with frontline responders providing aid with support from the North County COVID-19 Response Fund. Last March, the Coastal Community Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, and Leichtag Foundation created the Fund to meet the basic needs of local residents. To date, over $1.3 million has been granted and leveraged.
Speakers include:
- Max Disposti, Executive Director, North County LGBTQ Resource Center
- Nicole Mione-Green, Executive Director, Casa de Amistad
- Javier Guerrero, Executive Director, Coastal Roots Farm
- Samantha Holt, Executive Director, Armed Services YMCA of Camp Pendleton
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.