Lighting The Way: SOJOURN's Annual Giving Campaign

You can empower communities to advance and celebrate gender & sexual diversity across the South by giving directly to our annual 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 so much to our generous Lighting the Way 2026 supporters!

*Rabbi Alexandria Shuval-Weiner
*Anonymous
Aaron and Darcy Coty
Andrew and Janet Ziffer
Christiane Garton
Danica Kombol and David Lewis
David and Zen Neer
Gail and Clyde Rokoff
*Gary Alembik and Stephen Graves
Jerry Hauck
Jamie Fergerson and Monica Gurtu
*Jennifer and Rebecca Stapel-Wax
*Jill Cohen and Kandy Wilkinson
*Joyce Kinnard and Pat Del Rey
*Julie Fishman and Terry Pechacek
*Joy Ladin
Linda Zuk
Loren
Michael Paul
*A Proud Supporter
*Rebecca Leary and Scot Safon
*Sara Stapel
Shira And Tommy Moloney
Sonia Alden Foundation
Suzanne Hurwitz
*The Temple
*Have Given 5+ Years