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!
List updated as of October 23
A Proud Supporter
Aaron and Darcy Coty
Abby Friedman and Harry Heiman
Al Endel and Derek Lowery
Alan Sokoloff and Michele Casper
Alex Ortiz and Graham Philips
Alice and Brian Wertheim
Allan and Melanie Nelkin
Alyce Lappin and Steve Jungk
Amber DeFord
Amir Jones and Jodie-Helen Martin
Amy Kam
Amy Leventhal
Amy Price and Rob Kistenberg
Amy and Will Robertson
Amy Teplow
Andrew and Dr. Debbie Bauman
Andrew and Janet Ziffer
Andrew and Carole Kagan
Andy Siegel and Caryn Hanrahan
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Ariela Freedman
Barbara Griffin
Barbara Rubin
Barbara and Larry Fine
Barry and Marcie Koffler
Barry Roseman
Barry Golivesky and Dan Bloom
Becca Sherrill and LeeAnn Jones
Beverly Korfin and Andrea Finn
Bill and Valerie Needle
Billie Greenberg
Blair and Robin Cohen
Bobby & Elisa Ezor
Brad Berman
Brian Kaplan and Rebekka Goldsmith
Brittany Nehman
Bryan Golson and Michael Gross
Camryn Tanner
Cantor Sheri Allen
Cantor Beth Schafer and Rebecca Woods
Carolyn Hausman
Carolyn Oppenheimer
Cary Goldenthal and Lori Shapiro
Chaim and Jenni LieberPerson
Charlie Chasen and Jamie Collins
Chris and Michael Jacobs
Cindy Solomon
Congregation B'nai Torah
Congregation Gesher L' Torah
Congregation Or Hadash
Corey-Jan Albert and Joel Deitch
Cynthia McGuiness
Dan and Jennifer Rosenfelt
Dan and Rebecca Short
David and Shannon Lubell
David Soloway
David and Elaine Taylor-Klaus
David and Ellen Leary
David and Shana Cohen
David Epstein and Stacey Hader Epstein
David and Zen Neer
Deborah Leary
Deborah Sumner
Dina Fuchs Beresin and Todd Beresin
Don and Jan Hackney
Dr. David and Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder
Dr. David and Rabbi Pamela Gottfried
E. Wesley Adams
Eliot Robinson and Liane Schleifer
Elise Eplan and Bob Markovitch
Elizabeth Chesnut and Mary Shaw
Elizabeth Geiger
Ellen Cabacungan
Ellen and Eric Schwartz
Eliot and Randi Siegel
Emily and Harrison Bleiberg
Emma Safon
Erika Harris
Esther and Roger Panitch
Etgar 36
Evan Bernstein and Rich Wilner
Everett and Susan Skinner
Faith Russler
Fay Twersky and Jill Blair
Felice Cohen and Maria Rossi
Gail and John Lee
Gail Podolsky
Gary Alembik and Stephen Graves
Gary Youngblood and Mike Lorton
Gayanne Geurin
Gene Morgan and Robert Weinstein
Georgia Equality
Gerald Hauck
Glen Holliday and Steven Feldman
Gloria and Ken Southerland
Gus Kaufman, Jr.
Hal and Dorita Arnold
Halpern/Oppenheimer Family
Heather Harmon
Henry Lewis
Howard and Patty Maziar
Ilene and Lisa Zier
Jack and Lynne Halpern
Jackie Leary
Jackie Sherman and Nancy Miller
Jacob Morvay
Jamie Fergerson and Monica Gertu
Janet Reed
Jean Kintisch
Jeffrey Nakrin
Jen Slipakoff
Jennifer Dylan
Jennifer Saliers
Jennifer and Rebecca Stapel-Wax
Jennifer Weissman and Stephen Kay
Jesse and Richard Bathrick
Jessica Handler and Mickey Dubrow
Jill Cohen and Kandy Wilkinson
Jimmy and Sheri Krell
Joan M. Stuart
Joanne Schnee
Jodi and Mike Greenwald
John Cearley and Yael Sherman
Jon Wagreich
Joy Ladin
Joyce Kinnard and Pat Del Ray
Judith Alembik
Judith and Mark Taylor
Judy Marx
Julia Kunis
Julie Fishman and Terry Pechacek
Kathi and Michael Frankel
Kenneth Reichel
Kristopher and Simone Bonnejonne
Lara Dorfman
Larry Auerbach
Larry Bleiberg and Sara Rimm Kaufman
Larry Lehman
Lauren Poisson
Lauren Rich and Marian Myers
Laurie Gaby
Leanne Rubenstein and Sylvia Miller
Lee and Lynne Davis
Lenore Kintisch
Lewis and Lynn Redd
Lilian Safon
Linda Bachmann
Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation
Lisa Heimann
Lois and Stephen Wolf
Lynn Sokler
Marcy Louza and Mike Kenig
Mark and Pam Rosenthal
Mark Spieler and Peter Bjerkerot
Mark Greenberg and Susie Glatt-Greenberg
Mary and Michael Baron
Melissa Richman
Michael Paul
Michael and Mindy Planer
Michael Schulder and Nancy Field
Michael Reed and Thomas Downs
Michelle Adkins
Michelle Day
Mimi Hall and Russell Gottschalk
Mindy and Warren Binderman
Molly Edlein
Nancy and Randy Gorod
Natalya Kalistratova
National Council of Jewish Women/Atlanta Division
Paul Wolpe and Valerie Root Volpe
Rabbi Judith and Stan Beiner
Rabbi Neil and Susan Sandler
Rachel and Sandy Wallack
Randy Faigin
Rebeca Quintana
Rebecca Leary and Scot Safon
Richard and Sheryl Arno
Richard Mitchell and Susan Kupferberg
Rita Wuebbeler
Roberta Barber
Robbie Medwed
Robin Cox and Rochelle Cotliar
Robin Joy Shahar
Rosalyn Winston
Rose Gross
Ryan Mathern and Sadie Simmons
Sally Schrag
Sam Dressler
Samuel Gold
Sandra Menes
Sara Stapel
Shari Bayer
Sharon Braunstein
Shelly Rose
Sheryl Lee
Shira and Tommy Moloney
Shoshana Ben-Yoar
Sid Besmertnik
Sonia Alden Foundation
Susan Abramson
Susan Gordon
Susan and Ted Johnson
Suzanne Bearman
Suzanne Hurwitz
Temple Sinai
Temple Beth Tikvah
Temple Emanu-El
Terri Cohen
The Zaban Foundation
Tim McDaniel
Tina Wilkinson
Tom Karsch
Tyler Katz
Valerie Blankenship
Vivienne Diaz
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.
