The Fineshriber Family Foundation was founded in 2006 and has awarded grants totaling more than $10.6 million. Our mission is to promote social justice by supporting children and empowering youth, families, and communities.
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Marcia Antopol has been a nonprofit community organizer, program developer, agency executive, and leader in philanthropy for over 50 years. Her career has emphasized services and social justice advocacy for vulnerable women, children, and families. As a nonprofit executive, she focused on immigrant rights, grassroots service development, and women’s empowerment in the areas of domestic violence and access to child care.
In philanthropy, she was responsible for broad-based grant-making at United Way organizations in New Haven, CT, and Los Angeles; the Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Foundation in Los Angeles; and organizing and creating grant strategies and platforms for the Everychild Foundation and the Change a Life Foundation among others. In these roles, she taught generations of board members and volunteers how to evaluate nonprofit organizations and program proposals and to make sound decisions about fund distribution. With many years on both sides of the field, Marcia focused on building partnerships between foundations and grantees. Her work in philanthropy inspired Ruth Fineshriber to establish the foundation under her leadership to advance a legacy of advocacy and service.
Jeff Moskin, the son of Ruth Moskin Fineshriber, has served on the foundation’s board since inception and has largely been responsible for maintaining the fund’s corpus. He keenly feels the commandment of Tikkun Olam, to repair the world. The family motto of Jeff and his wife, Marcia Antopol, has always been to “live modestly and give generously.” That inspired Ruth to establish a family foundation in their care and pass along their values to subsequent generations. A retired electronics engineer, Jeff has served in many volunteer positions and on several nonprofit boards.
Chanan Tigay is an author and journalist, whose work includes the award-winning The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible as well as articles in publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, GQ, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, AFP, UPI and The Jerusalem Post. Chanan has won fellowships from Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, The Investigative Reporting Program at U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, the Moment Institute Middle East Fellowship, and Yaddo. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science and Religion from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
Beth Tigay has extensive experience in nonprofit management and education. A passionate advocate for youth and their families, Beth became a nonprofit leader in organizations focused on the empowerment of adolescents after two decades as an educator in Los Angeles. Beth has a degree in English from UCLA and holds an MBA from American Jewish University’s Graduate School of Nonprofit Management.
For more information please contact Beth Tigay
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