Out in the World: A Wider Bridge celebrates 10-year anniversary
A Wider Bridge is celebrating its 10-year anniversary honoring the organization's beginnings and looking toward its future at an upcoming virtual gala."We're very excited to celebrate our past, present, and future and especially to be able to celebrate it with two of our honorees in San Francisco," said Allen Schwartz, CEO and board chair of the LGBTQ Jewish organization.A Wider Bridge Executive Director Ethan Felson said the organization is "celebrating what we've been able to accomplish together the past 10 years and setting us up for an ambitious future," Monday, January 31, at 5 p.m.
The live event is themed "Proud B'yachad — Proud Together."Schwartz said the organization's origins and roots in San Francisco will be honored "throughout this event," including Tyler Gregory, the organization's first executive director, and founder Arthur Slepian."I'm so proud that this organization that I founded here in the Bay Area more than a decade ago is now thriving and creating real impact in LGBTQ communities all across the U.S.
and in Israel," wrote Slepian in an email statement to the Bay Area Reporter. Slepian expressed pride in AWB recognizing Gregory for his work during his six-year tenure."His leadership was so critical to the transformation of A Wider Bridge from a startup with great potential to an established organization that is now a respected voice across our communal landscape," Slepian wrote, noting the A Wider Fund he established to support LGBTQ Jewish organizations in Israel as one of Gregory's biggest accomplishments at the organization.AWB is honoring Gregory with the 2022 Trailblazer Award for taking the organization to "unprecedented growth" and developing its "grantmaking program to help build equality in.
