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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 they are without judgment or whispers. Linor Abergel is

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 daughter, Olivia, co-founded BirdieLight a Good People F

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 grew up on a kibbutz in northern Israel, is combining

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 Good People Fund grantee. MJA mobilizes volunteer clinicia

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 Rekindle a Good People Fund grantee joining members of th

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 the ultimate sacrifice. In this episode presented as

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, she founded Israel Lemonade Fund a Good People Fund gra

(un)conference Preview! Repairing a Challenged World, with Ruth Messinger
September 03, 2024

Good People Fund (un)conference keynote speaker Ruth Messinger is a prominent social change advocate, and former President and current Global Ambassador of the American Jewish World Service. In this s

In Israel, Countering Racism and Hate
August 27, 2024

Tag Meir (Light Tag) a Good People Fund grantee was founded in 2011 by Gadi Gvaryahu to counter racism in Israel, and has grown to lead a coalition of more than 50 organizations across political, religious and cultural spheres to mobilize voices for

(un)conference Preview! Songs of Love, with John Beltzer
August 20, 2024

Come November, at The Good People Fund’s (un)conference in New York, singer-songwriter John Beltzer will bring us into his unique zone of good leading attendees as we give our voices to a song personalized for a child facing a serious medical chal