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Leadership
Dennis Speisman, President |
Vivian Bass, CEO |
Board of Directors |
Executive Staff
Under the current leadership, JFGH has received the following recognition:
Four-star rating (Charity Navigator) for 7 consecutive years
Seal of Excellence (Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations)
Dennis Speisman, President
President of The Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Board of Directors
- President, Mileham & King, Inc.
- Native Washingtonian
- Trustee of the Gildenhorn/Speisman Family Foundation
- Graduate of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
- Married to Leslie. They have 1 daughter, Carrie, son-in-law Travis and granddaughter, Mallory.
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Vivian Bass, Chief Executive Officer - Jewish Foundation for Group Homes (JFGH)
Chief Executive Officer of The Jewish Foundation for Group Homes
- Numerous distinctions including;
- 2006 Washingtonian of the Year;
- Jewish Woman International's
'Women to Watch' Community
Leadership Award;
- City of Rockville Human Rights Commission’s F. Michael Taff Award;
- Jewish Federation of Greater Washington ‘Woman of Valor’Award;
- Potomac Community Resources' Patricia Sullivan
Outstanding Volunteer Award;
- Sulam Outstanding Community
Professional Award;
- Member of the Leadership
Montgomery class of 2010
- Presented at the World Congress on
Disabilities/Paralympics, National
Association of Social Workers (NASW) and
National Organization on Disabilities.
- Board member of Potomac Community
Resources, Inc. and Member of Women's'
Leadership Council of United Way NCA.
- Undergraduate and graduate studies at The University of Michigan
- Married to Raymond Bass. They have 3 sons and
3 grandchildren.
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Board of Directors: 2009-2010
Officers
Dennis Speisman, President
Lisa Reiner Cohen, President Elect
Leonard Bebchick, VP Administration
Abba Blum, VP Finance
Ken Gilman, VP Development
David Raskin, VP Programs
Marc Pasternak, Secretary
Nan Bender, Assistant Secretary
Irving Shapiro, Treasurer
Vivian Watkins, Assistant Treasurer |
At Large Officers
Charles Cole
Jennifer Margolius Fisher
Honey Nashman
H. Mark Rabin
Sara Rubinow Simon
Stefan Tucker
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Past Presidents
David Bindeman, (z"l)
S. Robert Cohen
Charles Eisen
Robert N. Eisman
Ronald Glancz
William Harkaway
Gary Henkin
Larry Herman
Leslie Kaplan
Peter Levin
Leslie Milk
Gerald Wedren
Eugene Youngentob
(z"l) = of blessed memory |
James Ackerman
Kenneth Braunstein
Barry Cohen
Beth Eisman
Honorable Valerie Ervin
Mark Futrovsky
Gilbert Geldon
Harvey Goodman |
Board of Directors
Margie Glancz
Jill Granader
Aaron Kaufman
Barbara Koch, M.D.
Clifford Mendelson
Larry Miller
Albert Pollin |
Lee Simowitz
Andy Stern
Marvin Waldman
Elizabeth Weintraub
Richard Weintraub
Carol West
Janet Wintrol
Joseph Wolinsky |
Rabbi Bruce Aft
Lee Ellyn Altobello
Arline Atlas
Sondra Bender
Stanley Berlinsky
Barbara Bernstein
Julie Bernstein
Tracy Bernstein
Carol Bindeman
Robert Bindeman
Shelton Binstock
Miriam Birnbach
John Bloomfield
Hon. Vincent Callahan
Ruth Cantor
Joy Cohen
Nancy L. Cohen
Randi-Lynn Cohen
Ryna Cohen
John Colby
Hon. Jean Cryor
Reverend Monsignor John Enzler
Deborah Epstein
Douglas Erdman
Diane Feinberg
Ginny Feldman
Israel Feldman
Marilyn Feldman
Samuel Fineman |
Advisory Committee
Hilda Fishback
Norman Freidkin
Norma Lee Funger
Hon. Douglas F. Gansler
Estelle Gelman
Shari Gelman
Alma Gildenhorn
Suzan Gildenhorn
Norman Goldstein
Florence Gootenberg
Bobbie Gottschalk
Carolyn Doppelt Gray
Suzanne Greenleigh
Henry Greenwald
Stuart Halpert
Ira Hammerman
Richard Hindin
Howard Hoffman, M.D.
General James Jones
Annette Jolles
Joshua Kaufman
Samuel Kaplan
Jack Kay
Linda Klonsky
Linda Kogod
Jeffrey Krauthamer
Frieda Lacey
Marjorie Lappen |
Rabbi Jonah Layman
Hon. Susan Lee
Thelma Lenkin
Annette Lerner
Rabbi Bruce Lustig
Carole Nannes
Betty Nan Obermayer
William Oshinsky
Daniel Perlin, M.D.
Susan Pittleman
Raymond Pitts
Dennis Ratner
Sandra Reznick
Susan Rolnick
Howard Rosenberg
Carol Schuman
Mark Shriver
Carlynn Silverman
Irvin Silverman
Rabbi Matthew Simon
L. Judith Snyder
Linda VanGrack Snyder
Aaron Stopak
Joyce Torchinsky
Jeffrey Van Grack
Judy Waldman
Paul Wexler
Rabbi Jeffrey Wohlberg
Alane Youngentob
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Executive Staff
Chief Executive Officer
Vivian G. Bass |
Chief Financial Officer
Keith Danos |
Director of Human Resources
Pamela Best |
Deputy Director
Deborah M. Fisher, Psy.D. |
Director of Programs
Rebecca Rubin, LCSW-C |
Director of Development
Lew Fontek |
Director of Operations
Michael Rubin |
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