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 only in excess of $33,000,000, but also a legion of more than 260 small impactful nonprofit organizations in both the United States
and Israel, many of which have grown into mature programs that help make this a kinder and gentler world by easing human suffering in creative ways.

A woman of many talents from an early age, Naomi began her career as a high school American History teacher. While home raising a family she quickly used her talents as a needlepoint pillow maker (remember them?), kosher caterer, and plant doctor when houseplants were de rigeur. Along the way, she took over the family clothing business.

Always an organization junkie and do-gooder, in 1991 she met poet and Mitzvah Guru, Danny Siegel while serving as her synagogue’s President. That chance meeting brought her into the tzedakah world and eventually she served as the first employee of Siegel’s Ziv Tzedakah Fund.In 2007 when he decided to shut down the successful fund, she realized there were many donors who loved the low overhead, grassroots appeal of direct giving to early-stage organizations begun by inspiring individuals, actually Good People. She began The Good People Fund with the help of a cadre of donors and thinkers who believed in this creative model.

In a world of increasing polarity, animosity and hatred, she feels blessed to be able to do this important work with the support of her husband, kids and grandchildren. Life IS good!