WHO WE ARE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Roz Garber Toledano, Chair
Audrey Weiner, Vice Chair
Ellen Soffar Steinberg, Treasurer
Tracey Spiegelman, Secretary
Livia Asher
Dina Bakst
Jacquie Bayley
Mindy Bloom
Sue Beller
Renee Evans
Aimee Falchuk
Michele Foster
Stephanie Garry
Joanna Golden
Deborah Meyer
Rabbi Marianne Novak
Roni Schwartz
Diane Sigel

FORMER BOARD CHAIRS

Barbara Dobkin, Founding Chair
Sue Beller
Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson
Donna Gerson
Carol M. Joseph
Julie Morris
Rabbi Suzanne Offit

FOUNDING DIRECTOR

Linda Altshuler

DIRECTOR

Stephanie Blumenkranz

Stephanie works in close partnership with the Board to implement the Foundation’s goals and deepen its impact. As the Director, she oversees all aspects of the Foundation, including its strategy, operations, development, and grantmaking. She previously served as Associate Director at the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York (JWFNY), where she oversaw 3.2 million in grants to 137 programs in 21 countries. She played an instrumental role in strengthening the grantmaking practices, growing and engaging their donor base, and creating impactful education programming.

Prior to working at JWFNY, Stephanie was a Communications and Development Associate for Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (ICPH), a national thinktank on family poverty and homelessness. She also has experience with the New York City Administration for Children’s Services as the Special Assistant to the Commissioner.

Stephanie was selected as one of The Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36 in 2020 and she was awarded the 2019 Nancy Schwartz Sternoff z”l Leadership Award from JWFNY.  She is a Board Member of Women Creating Change, has previously served as a Young Leader at Philanthropy NY, and was a Community Connections Fellow at the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. Stephanie received her BS from Vanderbilt University and her MS from NYU Steinhardt School. She lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband Greg and children Zach and Sasha.