For Immediate Release
Contact:
Glenn Rosenkrantz
646-245-8975 or glenn.rosenkrantz@gmail.com
THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND NAMES JULIE FISHER AS ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Millburn, NJ, January 23, 2025 — The Good People Fund (GPF) has announced the appointment of Julie Fisher, a noted nonprofit leader in the United States and Israel, as its first Associate Executive Director.
Fisher, who has served as GPF’s Director of Engagement since November of 2023, brings deep experience and a record of impact to GPF, which is in its 17th year supporting grassroots social visionaries addressing significant needs in the United States, Israel and elsewhere around the world.
“The depth and breadth of Julie’s skills, combined with her deep commitment to The Good People Fund’s stated goals, makes her the perfect choice to take our work to even greater heights and to change more lives. We couldn’t be happier,” GPF Executive Director Naomi Eisenberger said.
Broadly, as Associate Executive Director, Fisher will move to heighten GPF’s profile within the Jewish and general philanthropic communities through exposures and partnerships, help determine how GPF grant making can advance the social entrepreneurial movement and meet existing and emerging social challenges, and work with the GPF Board and staff to strategically evolve and mature the organization.
“I am honored to expand my role with The Good People Fund and look forward to working closely with Naomi and our entire team, including board members and partners, to elevate our impact and support social visionaries who are addressing the most pressing social challenges of our time,” Fisher said.
Fisher was an educator in Boston and Washington, DC, before relocating in 2011 to Tel Aviv, where as the spouse of the United States Ambassador to Israel, she engaged with educational, medical, and philanthropic institutions highlighting partnerships between the United States and Israel, and supporting programs to elevate minority communities, promote women’s health, and advance shared society.
Before joining GPF as Director of Engagement, she was the Founder and Director of the Consortium for Israel and the Asylum Seekers, an organization bringing greater attention to the needs of African asylum seekers, a vulnerable sector of society in Israel.
She served on the Board of Trustees of the Walworth Barbour American International School in Israel for six years, including two as Board Chair. During her tenure, she led the board through a period of change including the creation of the school’s first strategic plan, oversight of the school’s finances, and renegotiation of an international agreement between Israel and the United States resulting in additional American-trained educators joining the school.
Fisher lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband and three daughters.
Since its establishment in 2008, GPF has disbursed over $30 million to support and help grow 259 grassroots nonprofit organizations primarily in the United States and Israel.
GPF identifies and supports change-making visionaries working in crucial areas including inclusion, health and well being, women’s and girls’ empowerment, welfare of children and youth, care of elders, hunger relief, food rescue, support of refugees, fighting antisemitism and hatred, LGBTQ+ rights and more.
The Good People Fund, founded in 2008, is inspired by ordinary people with extraordinary drive to make deep, uplifting impact in communities in the United States, Israel and elsewhere around the world. We find them, support them, counsel them … and watch as lives are changed and new and creative ways of addressing seemingly intractable social and economic challenges take root and flourish. Our driving value is tikkun olam – repair of the world – and our extended family of visionaries, supporters and donors embrace the notion that small actions lead to huge impacts. www.goodpeoplefund.org
