Our visionary and engaging partners talk about their drive and impact in Good People Talk, the monthly podcast of The Good People Fund. It’s all about good people doing good in the world with creativity and hard work … and talking about it!
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Episode 65: At an Organic Farm in Israel, Changing Young Lives
At Kaima Hukuk — a non-profit organic farm in Israel’s Galilee region — teens and young adults seeking alternative educational and social frameworks are finding connection, purpose and promise. Founder Asaf Zaiden speaks to Good People Fund Associate Executive Director Julie Fisher about the vision and impact of Kaima Hukuk and how lives are being changed there.
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Episode 64: In Challenging Times, Advancing Civic Engagement
Considering societal trends and schisms threatening the robust functioning of American democracy, Civic Spirit — a Good People Fund grantee — works with educators and students in faith-based schools across the country to bolster civic fluency, skills and engagement. Civic Spirit’s Executive Director, Rabbi Charles Savenor, speaks with GPF Executive Director Naomi Eisenberger about the organization’s origins, and its growing and critical impact.
The Good People Fund:
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Episode 63: In Israel’s Negev, A Passion to Uplift Bedouin Youth and Advance Co-Existence
Jamal Alkirnawi is a leader in the Bedouin community in Israel and the Founder and Executive Director of A New Dawn in the Negev, a Good People Fund grantee. The organization uplifts Bedouin youth facing socio-economic challenges in the region, and with a Bedouin-Jewish core, promotes equality, co-existence and peace.
“I have the responsibility for the young people … to bring them the light for tomorrow,” Jamal tells GPF Associate Director Julie Fisher in this episode revealing how vision and passion leads to impact.
The Good People Fund:
Read The Good People Fund 2024 Journal of Good for stories of inspiration, hope and impact:
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Episode 62: For Newly Resettled Families in NYC, Threads of Connection and Support
Shoshana Barzel founded New Neighbors Partnership in 2020, establishing clothing partnerships for newly resettled families in New York City. The clothing partnerships are the foundation of long-term community support networks, an invaluable anchor for refugee, asylee and asylum-seeking families. Shoshana speaks with GPF Executive Director Naomi Eisenberger.
The Good People Fund:
Read The Good People Fund 2024 Journal of Good for stories of inspiration, hope and impact:
https://www.goodpeoplefund.
Grantee Program(s) Featured in This Episode:
New Neighbors Partnership
Episode 61: For Haredi Women in Israel, Gaining a Voice
Esty Shushan is a Haredi woman who founded Nivcharot — a Good People Fund grantee — to promote the status and rights of ultra-Orthodox women in Israel through education, advocacy and cultivation of women leaders. In conversation with GPF Executive Director Naomi Eisenberger, Esty describes her personal journey finding her voice as a social visionary, and the remarkable and growing impact of the organization she leads.
Grantee Program(s) Featured in This Episode:
Nivcharot: Haredi Women’s Movement
Episode 60: Healing as Activism
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 critical.
Rabbi Igal Harmelin — who is active in the trauma field and spoke at The Good People Fund (un)conference last fall — talks with GPF Executive Director Naomi Eisenberger about the imperative to address our individual and collective trauma, and the primacy of self-healing and community in the process.
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Episode 59: In Their Own Words: Reflections from The Good People Fund 2024 (un)conference
Grantee Program(s) Featured in This Episode:
Bagel Rescue
Sport – Bridge to Education
Voices from Israel: Marking a Year Since October 7
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 we mark one year since October 7 — Shari describes her experiences and observations on and after that day … the imperative to honor and dignify those we lost … and the place of testimony and remembrance as legacy. She speaks with GPF Executive Director Naomi Eisenberger.
Content Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of atrocities, including sexual violence, committed on October 7. Listener discretion is advised.
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Episode 58: For Breast Cancer Patients, Offering Financial Help … and Lessening Stress
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 grantee — to help breast cancer patients in financial crisis, offering one-time grants covering basic living costs and alleviating distress. Marking Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, she speaks with GPF Executive Director Naomi Eisenberger.
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Episode 57: (un)conference Preview! – Repairing a Challenged World, with Ruth Messinger
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 special pre-(un)conference episode, Ruth speaks about the Jewish and moral imperative to repair the world … the challenges facing visionary leaders … and what she’s planning to impart in her keynote address at the (un)conference in November in New York City.
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