As we approach the season of giving, we’re conscious of those in our community without the resources to fully enjoy the holidays. Below is a list of opportunities to help.
Support The Enlisted Project (STEP)
Join STEP in providing turkey and all the fixin’s for military and veteran families to prepare their own meals at home. Visit their site here.
San Diego Rescue Mission
Assist in serving the annual Thanksgiving meal on Saturday, November 23 for 1,200 men, women, and children. The event features hot meals, live music, and a festive atmosphere. Visit their site here.
Serving Seniors
Bring a smile to the elderly in our community by serving an elegant and traditional Thanksgiving meal to over 500 local seniors.
Visit their site here.
Feeding San Diego
Join Feeding San Diego’s Give Hope, Share Joy program on Saturday, November 30, from 9-11 am. Pack and glean produce, sort through donated non-perishables, and learn how your contribution impacts our community.
Visit their site here.
Community Resource Center (CRC)
Holiday Baskets help alleviate financial stress and make a hard time of year brighter, especially for children. The 3-day holiday distribution at the Del Mar Fairgrounds provides necessities for over 6,000 people and connects families to CRC’s supportive services. Visit their site here.
Interfaith Community Services
Individuals and families are anonymously matched with generous adopters who fulfill their holiday wishes. Visit their site here.
Jewish Family Service of San Diego
Work with Jewish Family Service to make the holidays possible for single-parent families, military veterans, and older adults living on tight fixed incomes. Visit their site here.
North County Lifeline
Clothing, toys, gift cards, and household essentials are collected and matched to Lifeline’s families-in-need, giving them a little extra help this holiday season.
Visit their site here.
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.