NEW: Jewish Alliance Picks New CEO
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island has recently appointed Jeffrey Savit as its new CEO and President.
Savit has many years of leadership experience within the Jewish community, serving for over ten years on the boards of multiple nonprofit organizations around the Boston-area, including chairing the Big Brothers Bid Sisters endowment board as well as the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston. He is also on the board of directors at the Jewish Community Center Association of North America.
“Jeffrey Savit is a remarkable balance of a kind and gentle soul who is also a precise and strategic thinker – the perfect combination for the Alliance and our Jewish community,” said Doris Feinberg, the previous president of the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island
Before this, the New Bedford native directed a Hebrew senior center which was part of an independent living complex in Brookline, Massachusetts. He also was a trust and real estate attorney for almost 20 years and owns several minor league baseball teams. In his philanthropic work he has raised over $14 million for institutions such as the Herbert W. Savit Research Fellowship for Leukemic Studies and The Miriam Hospital.
New CEO wants to make Alliance ‘formidable, nimble, and respected’
“I am excited to have the opportunity to guide the Alliance into the future,” said Savit. “My becoming the first president and CEO of the Alliance will allow me to achieve my lifetime ambition to apply and transfer my community volunteer leadership experiences to the professional level. My personal goals and professional qualities perfectly ally with and complement those of the Alliance and the Rhode Island Jewish Community. In partnership with my community leaders and fellow professionals, I intend to make the Alliance a formidable, nimble and respected Jewish Organization across Southern New England and nationally."
Savit said his top priorities would be fund development and community building across Rhode Island.
“As a proud Jewish husband and father, I operate by the credo that if I do not exhaust myself championing for the welfare of my family and fellow Jewish community members, and especially our most vulnerable, then I will not have fulfilled an implicit obligation I made to my parents and myself,” Savit said.
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