I have often said that if government social services were doing their job, we could close the Lemonade Fund. I could retire and learn to play bridge and our staff could find better paying jobs in hi-tech 🙂 I also know that certain societal ills are entrenched, like...
Enjoy this enlightening interview with Good People Fund founder Naomi Eisenberger on the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center’s podcast with host Bernie Furshpan. Thank you Naomi for the shoutout on the Lemonade Fund’s work and The Good People Fund's continued...
September is Gynecological Cancer Awareness and with approximately 7,000 women diagnosed with gynecological malignancies and pre-cancerous conditions in Israel every year, this is incredibly important. We are beginning to understand the urgency for...
It all started with a kugel. A very generous (and very talented) cook and Lemonade Fund supporter, asked if she could open one of her legendary charity raffles for a Sabbath Potato Kugel to benefit the Lemonade Fund. Of course we said yes. The rest is...
I come here once a year to write personally. Not as the Founder and Director of the Lemonade Fund, but as my younger self who went to my yearly routine mammogram in the summer of 2010 only to learn that I likely had breast cancer. The diagnosis was confirmed two days...
Thanks to our sister organization and valued partner, Habait Shel Bar, for inviting us to speak at their medical conference for oncology social workers and nurses who work with women facing gynecological malignancies. The event was attended by a few dozen...
It was so refreshing to meet with Naomi Eisenberger and Julie Fischer and their team from the Good People Fund on their annual trip to Israel last month. We shared with them our plans to expand reach, our migration to online applications and plans to help even...
Founder and Executive Director Shari Mendes shares the story of The Israel Lemonade Fund at the @worldemunah Women's Leadership in Israel conference.
The Jewish Link, a popular Jewish newspaper in the New York metropolitan area, covers the inspiring story of the Lemonade Fund's work and history. "Shari Mendes knows how essential every grant from the charity she established is to breast cancer patients....
Thanks to Guy Tavori and the ALL.CAN-Israel initiative, Lemonade Fund representatives attended a special session of the Knesset Health Committee on the challenges of closing gaps to provide quality oncology services in the periphery. The session took place as part of...