Nonprofit collaboration can be like reading the descriptions in a chocolate box before taking a bite – it’s hard to know where to start, it might take longer than avoiding it, but it’s well worth the journey and benefits everyone involved more than going it alone. We’re here with how-tos and real-life tales for those curious how to start collaborating to boost your organization’s impact. Featured speakers will offer true stories and tangible tips on identifying partners and areas of work, navigating meetings, and sustaining successful relationships. You will take away real tools to apply in initiating and conducting collaboration.Speakers:
Jessica Peter, Senior Director of Philanthropy, 2-1-1 San Diego
Darren Schwartz, Chief Planning & Strategy Officer, Jewish Federation of San Diego County
Alexandra White, Co-Executive Director & Co-Founder, ProduceGood
Facilitated by Jessica Kort, Director of Communications and Strategy, Leichtag Foundation
Tickets are pay-what-you-can, valued at $12/person.
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.