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Mazel Tov to our new President and CEO, Robert Bank!

We are wishing a special Mazel Tov to Robert Bank, who officially assumed the role of AJWS President and CEO today! Robert, who was AJWS’s Executive Vice President for seven-and-a-half years, is a skilled leader with a proven record of managing successful local, national and international organizations, bringing passion and dedication to public service and the pursuit of justice. Robert succeeds Ruth Messinger after her remarkable 18-year presidency of AJWS.

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Bio of Robert Bank

Robert Bank, currently the executive vice president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), will be the next president of AJWS, starting on July 1, 2016. As the organization’s Executive Vice President for the past six-and-a half years, Robert has focused on the organization’s strategic growth and on deepening its impact. Robert is an experienced leader and manager of local, national and international organizations, and prior to joining AJWS in 2009 he served in New York’s municipal government and in the leadership of GMHC—one of the leading organizations in the world engaged in combatting HIV/AIDS. In 2008, he played an instrumental role in the campaign to overturn the ban on HIV-positive people entering the United States and becoming U.S. citizens.

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Get to know AJWS’s Jacqueline Hart

Jacqueline Hart, Ph.D., joined American Jewish World Service in 2012 to lead the organization’s efforts to strategically learn and measure its impact in the developing world. Since then, she’s created research and evaluation initiatives that aim to deepen AJWS’s understanding of our work and to strengthen our impact. Under Jacqueline’s direction, AJWS uses these findings …

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Dominicans of Haitian descent deserve to vote in upcoming elections

This Sunday, May 15th, tens of thousands of people in the Dominican Republic will be unable to exercise their basic right to vote in their country’s elections. Many of those unable to vote are Dominicans of Haitian descent, a group facing a long history of racism and discrimination in their country. Through a series of laws and …

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AJWS Bay Area: What’s Happening

Thank you to all who attended AJWS’s 30th anniversary gala. It was a powerful night as we honored Sir Michael Moritz and our own indomitable Ruth Messinger. Just as powerful was the haunting tribute expressed by our third honoree, Alejandra Ancheita.

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Interview with Robert Bank and Ruth Messinger

Ruth Messinger was one of New York City’s most prominent politicians in the 1980s and 1990s before she took the helm of a respected but low-profile nonprofit focused on international development: the American Jewish World Service.

After 17 years, Messinger is giving up the presidency of AJWS, which grew into a major player in the fight against global poverty under her leadership. In 2015, the group gave out nearly $40 million for projects in 19 nations.

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