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Healing as Activism
January 27, 2025

Individual and collective trauma affects our potential to do good in the world as social visionaries, especially now in a broken landscape. So, how we seek awareness, perspective and healing is critic

In Their Own Words: Reflections from The Good People Fund 2024 (un)conference
December 23, 2024

The first-ever Good People Fund (un)conference brought nearly 70 GPF grantees from throughout the US and Israel to New York in November for two intensely rewarding days sharing experiences, origin s

Stories of Hope: JLM Food Rescuers
December 17, 2024

Merav filled her tote bag with fresh fruits and vegetables, a typical scene at a farmers market anywhere. But this one in West Jerusalem is different: food is rescued, prices are non-existent, and in

Stories of Hope: Israeli Transgender Association
December 16, 2024

Often their life experience includes being ostracized from family being homeless being a sex worker being abused being shunned. So at Trans House in Tel Aviv, trans women are embraced for who

Stories of Hope: BirdieLight
December 16, 2024

Beth Weinstock walked into that classroom carrying grief but also a driving purpose. In 2021, her college-aged son Eli accidentally ingested fentanyl and died. Yet six months later, Beth and her dau

Stories of Hope: Ruca’s Farm
December 13, 2024

At an oasis of calm and healing called Rucas Farm a Good People Fund grantee IDF veterans like Gideon are finding relief from trauma and a path toward light. Here, social visionary Nir Lahav, who

Stories of Hope: Medical Justice Alliance
December 13, 2024

Samara, incarcerated and suffering from advanced lymphoma, received a compassionate release from prison, a move that arguably saved her life due to the intervention of Medical Justice Alliance a Goo

Stories of Hope: Rekindle
December 13, 2024

Jereme is a Black pastor and salvage company manager. Aaron is a white, Orthodox Jewish human resources executive. A friendship seems unlikely but a tight one formed from their participation in Reki

Voices from Israel: Marking a Year Since October 7
October 07, 2024

Besides heading The Israel Lemonade Fund a Good People Fund grantee Shari Mendes serves on an Israel Defense Forces reserve unit dedicated to caring for the bodies of female IDF soldiers who made

For Breast Cancer Patients, Offering Financial Help … and Lessening Stress
September 24, 2024

Shari Mendes is a breast cancer survivor who during her journey of treatment and recovery, met patients facing severe financial struggle exacerbated by loss of work and other factors. Responding, sh