In 2008, Naomi Eisenberger founded the Good People Fund, a grantmaking organization that provides financial support and mentorship to small and mid-sized nonprofits led by changemakers — referred to as “Good People.” Before launching the Good People Fund, Eisenberger, a nonprofit leader and business professional with a background in education, served as managing director of […]

Naomi Eisenberger is a proud “Jersey girl” who has never left the Garden State for greener pastures. She is the Founding Executive Director of The Good People Fund which she helped found prior to 2008’s great economic downturn and the Madoff implosion. In the past 18 years this dynamic, countercultural tzedakah fund has raised not […]

Jordan Rich, host of the popular On Mic podcast, welcomes Naomi Eisenberger — Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Good People Fund — to a wide ranging conversation touching on GPF’s unique philosophy, reach and impact uplifting individuals and communities at a time of deepening societal needs.

The Good People Fund supports individuals and their organizations in the U.S. and Israel leading creative, deep and impactful grassroots efforts to advance positive social change and improve the lives of others. While our grantees represent a broad spectrum of critical work — from providing food security and medical access to fighting antisemitism to empowering […]

Not all charities and nonprofits are big. Not all of them need huge infusions of cash from single donors, big foundations and funds, and other large organizations. Not all of them have to be filtered through a logistically and bureaucratically necessary but still time- and soul-sucking set of requirements. Some of them are small and […]

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all If there’s any time of year for hope, it should be now — it’s springtime, and every bud pushing itself open, every new leaf on every old tree, every extra minute of […]

When Elie Klein was 13, he knew that giving back meaningfully and making a mark on the community was part of becoming a Jewish adult; this translated to donating about a tenth of his gift money to charity, he told eJP. But today’s “mitzvah project model” is more effective as an educational tool, he said, […]

MILLBURN, NJ — The Good People Fund (GPF), founded in Millburn in 2008, funds and mentors small grassroots programs in the United States and in Israel. Its mission is to empower visionaries to repair the world. According to GPF Executive Director Naomi K. Eisenberger, “All the programs have an individual or a small group that […]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired generations of Americans to fight for what is right…to do the hard work of making the world a better place…to do tikkun olam. In honor of Martin Luther King Day, Rabbi Pont sat down with Naomi Eisenberger, founding executive director of The Good People Fund. Don’t miss a chance […]