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 April 25
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
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
*Jamie Ferguson and Monica Gertu
Susie Glatt-Greenberg and Mark Greenberg
Mike Lorton and Gary Youngblood
Mike Kenig and Marcy Louza
Carolyn Oppenheimer
Lauren Rich and Marian Myers
Temple Sinai
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
Richard and Sheryl Arno
Dina Fuchs Beresin and Todd Beresin
Congregation B'nai Torah
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
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
Kathi and Michael Frankel
Russell Gottschalk and Mimi Hall
Lynne and Jack Halpern
Gerald Hauck
Chris and Michael Jacobs
Judy Marx
Anonymous
Mindy and Michael Planer
Kenneth Reichel
Rabbi Neil and Susan Sandler
David and Elaine Taylor-Klaus
Rebeca Quintana
Robert Weinstein and Gene Morgan
Sheri Allen
Rachel Alterman Walllack
Hal and Dorita Arnold
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
Rochelle Cotliar and Robin Cox
Darcy Coty
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
SHIMMER ~ $180
Steven Feldman and Glenn Holliday
Larry and Barbara Fine
Laurie Gaby
Gesher L' Torah
Rebekka Goldsmith and Brian Kaplan
❖Rabbi Pamela and Dr. David Gottfried
Jodi and Mike Greenwald
Heather Harmon
Erika Harris
Suzanne Hurwitz
Carole and Andrew Kagan
Natalya Kalistratova
Tyler Katz
Stephen Kay and Jennifer Weisman
Joyce Kinnard
Jean Kintisch
Lenore Kintisch
Julia Kunis
Joy Ladin
Jackie Leary
Sheryl Lee
Henry Lewis
David and Shannon Lubell
Sandra Menes
Jeffrey Nakrin
Brittany Nehman
Esther Pantich
Michael Paul
Alex Ortiz and Graham Philips
Lauren Poisson
Melissa Richman
Eliot Robinson and Liane Schleifer
Jennifer and Dan Rosenfelt
Pam and Mark Rosenthal
Faith Russler
Ellen and Eric Schwartz
Robin Joy Shahar
Lori Shapiro
Randi and Elliot Siegel
Sadie Simmons
Jen Slipakoff
Alan Sokoloff and Michele Casper
David Soloway
Gloria and Ken Southerland
Sara Stapel
Deborah Sumner
Amy Teplow
Jon Wagreich
Rachel Wallack
Alice and Brian Wertheim
Tina Wilkinson
Rita Wuebbeler
*SOJOURN Board Member
⚬ Past Board Member
❖Advisory Council Member
☆POP Honoree
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.