Lighting The Way: SOJOURN's Annual Giving Campaign
Make your donation to guarantee that LGBTQ+ people – especially our young people – know they are not alone and that unity and solidarity are touchstones throughout the Jewish community and beyond.
Together, we will:
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Deftly defend Trans and LGBQ+ Youth, and lead legislative advocacy work across the South. We want our young people to have freedom to be their autonomous selves, pursue their dreams, and live with dignity — no exceptions.
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Engage deeply with Jewish organizations to understand the dire impact that stigma and bias has on their gender and sexually diverse members.
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Encourage Jewish organizations to come together and demonstrate what it means to be a LGBTQ+ ally and an activated partner of SOJOURN.
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Nurture relationships with our LGBTQ+ youth and their families and to determine what SOJOURN needs to ‘build’ and support in our Southern communities.
Thank you to our generous Lighting the Way supporters!
SUNRISE~ $7,500
Julie Fishman and Terry Pechecek
STARLIGHT~ $5,000
Halpern/Oppenheimer Family
Susan and Richard Kupferberg
*Rebecca Leary and Scot Safon
Sonia Alden Foundation
INCANDESCENT~ $3,600
A Proud Supporter
*Gary Alembik and Stephen Graves
Osiason Educational Foundation
Cindy Solomon
Rebecca and Jennifer Stapel-Wax
*Janet and Andrew Ziffer
BRILLIANCE~ $2,500
Brad Berman
*Simone and Kristopher Bonnejonne
OPALESCENT~ $1,800
Dan Bloom and Barry Golivesky
Jill Cohen and Kandy Wilkinson
BLAZE ~ $1,000
Judith Alembik
Peter Bjerkerot and Mark Spieler
Felice Cohen and Maria Rossi
*Jamie Ferguson and Monica Gurtu
Susie Glatt-Greenberg and Mark Greenberg
Mike Lorton and Gary Youngblood
Mike Kenig and Marcy Louza
Temple Sinai
DAZZLE ~ $720
Beverly Korfin and Andrea Finn
Jimmy and Sheri Krell
Joan M. Stuart
GLITTER~ $540
Richard and Sheryl Arno
Dina Fuchs Beresin and Todd Beresin
Congregation B'nai Torah
Billie Greenberg
*Jessica Handler and Mickey Dubrow
Tim McDaniel
*Zen and David Neer
*Jenni Person and Chaim LieberPerson
Temple Emanu-El
Leanne Rubenstein and Sylvia Miller
Rabbi Ruth and Dr. David Abusch-Magder
Sheri Allen
Rachel Alterman Walllack
Mary Baron
Shari Bayer
Rabbi Judith and Stan Beiner
Evan Bernstein and Rich Wilner
Sid Besmertnik
Mindy and Warren Binderman
Jill Blair and Fay Twersky
Valerie Blakenship
Anonymous
Ellen Cabacungan
Blair and Robin Cohen
Anonymous
Rochelle Cotliar and Robin Cox
Darcy Coty
Michelle Day
Vivienne Diaz
Jennifer Dylan
Joel Deitch and Corey-Jan Albert
GLOW
Al Endel and Derek Lowery
Randy Faigin
Larry and Barbara Fine
***Rabbi Pamela and Dr. David Gottfried
Russell Gottchalk and Mimi Hall
Jodi and Mike Greenwald
Heather Harmon
Erika Harris
Gerald Hauck
Suzanne Hurwitz
Chris and Michael Jacobs
Carole and Andrew Kagan
Natalya Kalistratova
Tyler Katz
Joyce Kinnard
Joy Ladin
Sheryl Lee
Henry Lewis
David and Shannon Lubell
Jeffrey Nakrin
Brittany Nehman
Alex Ortiz and Graham Philips
Mindy and Michael Planer
Lauren Poisson
Melissa Richman
Eliot Robinson
Jennifer and Dan Rosenfelt
Faith Russler
Rabbi Neil and Susan Sandler
Ellen and Eric Schwartz
Robin Joy Shahar
Lori Shapiro
Sadie Simmons
Alan Sokoloff and Michele Casper
Gloria and Ken Southerland
Deborah Sumner
David and Elaine Taylor-Klaus
Amy Teplow
Rebeca Qunitana
Robert Weinstein and Gene Morgan
Tina Wilkinson
Rita Wuebbeler
General Donations
SOJOURN's mission is to empower communities to advance and celebrate gender and sexual diversity across the South, and we do so through empowering communities, celebrating queer people, educating institutions, and advocating for the marginalized.
Your general donation helps to fund our programs and operations in service of this mission. Donations can be made as a single annual gift or divided across a calendar year.
Thank you for giving as generously as you can. Together, we make a difference to every single person and community we serve.