Monthly Archives: November 2025

Stories of Hope: Everyday Boston

November 19, 2025Episodegoodpeopletalk

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Everyday Boston is a Good People Fund grantee that is weaving shared storytelling into the civic fabric of Boston.

The intention is to elevate empathy, dismantle barriers, forge connections and build stronger community within and among neighborhoods in a multicultural city with its own history of fracture.

“Stories can link us when almost nothing else can,” says Cara Solomon, Everyday Boston’s Founder and Creative Director. “Stories are our connective tissue.”

— “Stories of Hope” is a special series of Good People Talk!, where audio storytelling brings the impact of our Good People Fund grantees alive.

— Read The Good People Fund 2025 Journal of Good for more stories of inspiration, hope and impact:
www.goodpeoplefund.org/news-and-publications/annual-reports/

— Thank you to our narrator, Jordan Rich of Chart Productions.

Stories of Hope: Brit Ha’Leviot

November 3, 2025Episodegoodpeopletalk

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Almog was 20 when he embraced his gender identity, nearly 13 years ago. Public consciousness of transgender issues — and support for individuals and families — was far from present.

For Merav Livni Keish — Almog’s mother — silence was no option. She began talking to people, uncovering others’ experiences. She dug deep into the medical world, accumulating facts and realities.

Eventually, she founded Brit Ha’Leviot, a Good People Fund grantee promoting the rights and wellbeing of transgender individuals and their families … and educating Israeli society about gender diversity.

— “Stories of Hope” is a special series of Good People Talk!, where audio storytelling brings the impact of our Good People Fund grantees alive.

— Read The Good People Fund 2025 Journal of Good for more stories of inspiration, hope and impact:
www.goodpeoplefund.org/news-and-publications/annual-reports/

— Thank you to our narrator: Stephanie Garry

Stories of Hope: TribeTalk

November 3, 2025Episodegoodpeopletalk

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It was five years ago that three mothers of college-bound students founded TribeTalk, a Good People Fund grantee.

Their mission … to empower Jewish students with tools, information and resources to evaluate college environments … and also to address antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on campus and beyond.

“We are providing a shield for Jewish students to move through their spaces,” says Jude Sydney, one of the founders, along with Michelle Black and Robin Friedman. “They will be street smart, informed, tactical and practical.”

— “Stories of Hope” is a special series of Good People Talk!, where audio storytelling brings the impact of our Good People Fund grantees alive.

— Read The Good People Fund 2025 Journal of Good for more stories of inspiration, hope and impact:
www.goodpeoplefund.org/news-and-publications/annual-reports/

— Thank you to our narrator, Jordan Rich of Chart Productions, and our voice artist Ari Sapers-Sydney

Stories of Hope: MyChild’sCancer

November 3, 2025Episodegoodpeopletalk

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MyChild’sCancer — founded by Oded Grinstein in 2010 and a Good People Fund grantee — is a result of his family’s arduous and ultimately successful journey through pediatric cancer.

It is a growing, grassroots ecosystem of emotional, logistical and informed support for parents navigating pediatric cancer. It empowers and equips them as advocates for their child’s care, survival and recovery.

Oded refers to MyChild’sCancer as a basement start-up, connecting disparate dots for parents when questions come faster than answers. “These are game changers,” he says.

— “Stories of Hope” is a special series of Good People Talk!, where audio storytelling brings the impact of our Good People Fund grantees alive.

— Read The Good People Fund 2025 Journal of Good for more stories of inspiration, hope and impact:
www.goodpeoplefund.org/news-and-publications/annual-reports/

— Thank you to our narrator: Stephanie Garry

Stories of Hope: A New Dawn in the Negev

November 3, 2025Episodegoodpeopletalk

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He was 16 and on a well-worn path of societal isolation, educational stagnation, and other barriers to promise. One of 14 children in an Arab-Bedouin family in Israel’s Negev region, Ahamad was immersed in a cycle of inertia common to his generation.

A New Dawn in the Negev — a Good People Fund grantee — is embracing possibility and elevation … not constriction and stagnation.

“The invisible students, the invisible youth, they have to know someone is looking at them … I have the responsibility to the next generation to bring them the light of tomorrow,” says Founder and CEO Jamal Alkirnawi, an Arab-Bedouin social worker.

— “Stories of Hope” is a special series of Good People Talk!, where audio storytelling brings the impact of our Good People Fund grantees alive.

— Read The Good People Fund 2025 Journal of Good for more stories of inspiration, hope and impact:
www.goodpeoplefund.org/news-and-publications/annual-reports/

— Thank you to our narrator: Jordan Rich of Chart Productions

Stories of Hope: Tag Meir

November 3, 2025Episodegoodpeopletalk

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The graffiti was vile, sprayed on buildings in Tur’an, a mainly Arabic village in Israel’s Galilee region. Soon after, a delegation from Tag Meir went to meet council members and residents as an act of solidarity and compassion.

Gadi Gvaryahu, founder of Tag Meir, was there. “It starts with graffiti … if it is ignored, it ends with much worse … and it has.”

As a Good People Fund grantee — Tag Meir trains educators, engages in public campaigns, advocates in policy-making spheres, and sometimes offers legal and financial help to victims of racist acts.

— “Stories of Hope” is a special series of Good People Talk!, where audio storytelling brings the impact of our Good People Fund grantees alive.

— Read The Good People Fund 2025 Journal of Good for more stories of inspiration, hope and impact:
www.goodpeoplefund.org/news-and-publications/annual-reports/

— Thank you to our narrator, Stephanie Garry, and voice artist Glenn Rosenkrantz