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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:

  • 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.
  • Engage deeply with Jewish organizations to understand the dire impact that stigma and bias has on their gender and sexually diverse members.
  • Encourage Jewish organizations to come together and demonstrate what it means to be a LGBTQ+ ally and an activated partner of SOJOURN.
  • 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 June 9

 

SUNRISE~ $7,500

Julie Fishman and Terry Pechacek

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

Charlie Chasen and Jamie Collins

Barry and Marcie Koffler

Osiason Educational Foundation

Cindy Solomon

Rebecca and Jennifer Stapel-Wax

*Janet and Andrew Ziffer

 

BRILLIANCE~ $2,500

Brad Berman

*❖Simone and Kristopher Bonnejonne

Abby Friedman and Harry Heiman

 

OPALESCENT~ $1,800

☆Dan Bloom and Barry Golivesky

⚬Jill Cohen and Kandy Wilkinson

Robbie Medwed

Rebecca and Dan Short

 

BLAZE ~ $1,000

Judith Alembik

Larry Bleiberg and Sara Rimm Kaufman

Peter Bjerkerot and ⚬❖Mark Spieler

Felice Cohen and Maria Rossi

Bobby and Elisa Ezor

Nancy Field and Michael Schulder

*Jamie Ferguson and Monica Gertu

Susie Glatt-Greenberg and Mark Greenberg

Mike Lorton and Gary Youngblood

Mike Kenig and Marcy Louza

Allan and Melanie Nelkin

Carolyn Oppenheimer

Lauren Rich and Marian Myers

Beth Schafer

Temple Sinai

Judith and Mark Taylor

 

DAZZLE ~ $720

Etgar 36

Elizabeth Chesnut and Mary Shaw

⚬❖☆Beverly Korfin and Andrea Finn

Jimmy and ⚬Sheri Krell

Barry Roseman

⚬❖Joan M. Stuart

Temple Beth Tikvah

 

 

GLITTER~ $540

E. Wesley Adams

Richard and Sheryl Arno

Dina Fuchs Beresin and Todd Beresin

Congregation B'nai Torah

Epstein Family Foundation

Georgia Equality

Billie Greenberg

*Jessica Handler and Mickey Dubrow

Tim McDaniel

Howard and Patty Maziar

National Council of Jewish Women

*Zen and David Neer

*Jenni Person and Chaim LieberPerson

Temple Emanu-El

⚬❖☆Leanne Rubenstein and ☆Sylvia Miller

Caryn Hanrahan and Andy Siegel

Robert Weinstein

 

GLOW ~ $360

Rabbi Ruth and Dr. David Abusch-Magder

Shoshana Ben-Yoar

Evan Bernstein and Rich Wilner

Jill Blair and Fay Twersky

Blair and Robin Cohen

Sam Dressler

Al Endel and Derek Lowery

Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation

Kathi and Michael Frankel

Jan and Don Hackney

Russell Gottschalk and Mimi Hall

Michael Gross and Bryan Golson

Lynne and Jack Halpern

Gerald Hauck

Chris and Michael Jacobs

Amy Leventhal

Judy Marx

Valerie Needle

Anonymous

Mindy and Michael Planer

Kenneth Reichel

Rabbi Neil and Susan Sandler

David and Elaine Taylor-Klaus

Rebeca Quintana

Robert Weinstein and Gene Morgan

Valerie Root Wolpe and Paul Wolpe

 

Sheri Allen
Rachel Alterman Walllack
Hal and Dorita Arnold
Linda Bachmann
Mary Baron
Andrew and Dr. Debbie Bauman
Shari Bayer
Suzanne Bearman
Rabbi Judith and Stan Beiner
Sid Besmertnik
Mindy and Warren Binderman
Valerie Blakenship
Sharon Braunstein
Anonymous
Ellen Cabacungan
John Cearley
Anonymous
Shana and David Cohen
Congregation Gesher L' Torah
Rochelle Cotliar and Robin Cox
Darcy Coty
Lynne Davis
Michelle Day
Amber DeFord
*Vivienne Diaz
Thomas Downs and Michael Reed
Jennifer Dylan
Joel Deitch and Corey-Jan Albert
Elise Eplan and Bob Markovitch
Randy Faigin
Steven Feldman and Glenn Holliday
Larry and Barbara Fine
Ariella Freedman
Laurie Gaby

SHIMMER ~ $180

Gayanne Geurin
Elizabeth Geiger
Samuel Gold
Rebekka Goldsmith and Brian Kaplan
❖Rabbi Pamela and Dr. David Gottfried
Jodi and Mike Greenwald
Heather Harmon
Erika Harris
Carolyn Hausman
Suzanne Hurwitz
Susan and Ted Johnson
LeeAnn Jones
Carole and Andrew Kagan
Natalya Kalistratova
Amy Kam
Tom Karsch
Tyler Katz
Stephen Kay and Jennifer Weissman
Joyce Kinnard
Jean Kintisch
Lenore Kintisch
Julia Kunis
Joy Ladin
Deborah Leary
Ellen Leary
Jackie Leary
Sheryl Lee
Henry Lewis
David and Shannon Lubell
Sandra Menes
Shira and Tommy Moloney
Jeffrey Nakrin
Brittany Nehman
Esther Pantich

 

Michael Paul
Alex Ortiz and Graham Philips
Lauren Poisson
Amy Price and Rob Kistenberg
Melissa Richman
Amy Robertson
Eliot Robinson and Liane Schleifer
Shelly Rose
Jennifer and Dan Rosenfelt
Pam and Mark Rosenthal
Faith Russler
Jennifer Saliers
Joanne Schnee
Ellen and Eric Schwartz
Robin Joy Shahar
Lori Shapiro
Randi and Elliot Siegel
Sadie Simmons
Susan and Everett Skinner
Jen Slipakoff
Alan Sokoloff and Michele Casper
David Soloway
Gloria and Ken Southerland
Sara Stapel
Wendy Steinbaum
Deborah Sumner
Amy Teplow
Jon Wagreich
Rachel Wallack
Alice and Brian Wertheim
Tina Wilkinson
Rosalyn Winston
Rita Wuebbeler
Ilene and Lisa Zier

*SOJOURN Board Member

⚬ Past Board Member

❖Advisory Council Member

☆POP Honoree

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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.