David is the founder and CEO of Moishe House. He has been a nonprofit innovator since high school when he started Feed the Need, a nationally recognized homeless feeding organization. While attending the University of California at Santa Barbara, David served as the Hillel Student President and later the Executive Director of the Forest Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping college and high school students develop leadership qualities while following their passions. Through his work in the Jewish community, David has garnered many honors including the Avi Chai Fellowship, the JCSA Young Leadership Award, and the Bernard Reisman Award for Professional Excellence. In 2013, David was the recipient of UCSB Hillel's inaugural Alumni Achievement Award. David graduated with honors from UCSB with a BA in Business Economics.
Felicia has been Executive Director of The Natan Fund since 2005. Felicia is a frequent commentator on topics such as funding innovation, new trends in Jewish life, and the power of the giving circle model for engaging people in values-based, collaborative giving. Felicia serves on the boards of Bikkurim: An Incubator for New Jewish Ideas, The Sefaria Project, and on the advisory boards for several of Natan's partners and grantee organizations. She is a recipient of the Jewish Funders Network's JJ Greenberg Memorial Award, and she holds a Ph.D. in American Jewish History and an M.A. in Jewish Women's Studies from Brandeis University, and a B.A. from Wellesley College. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three children.
David serves as a Senior Program Officer for the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Based in the Washington, D.C. office, David advises Co-Chairs Lynn and Stacy Schusterman on how to best leverage their investments in existing organizations and take new initiatives to scale. David’s calling card is his hands on approach to his philanthropic portfolio: David spends much of his time working directly with organization staff and board members. Previously, David served as Executive Director at the Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU, Hillel at New York University, and, in 2011, received NYU’s Hallmark Award for outstanding university administrators. David received his BS in Marketing from the Smeal College of Business Administration at Penn State University, and an Executive MPA from NYU Wagner. He now lives in Potomac, Maryland with his wife and two kids.
Julie is an Organization & Leadership Consultant who has worked with organizations big, like IBM, and small, like start-up non profits. Her entry to Jewish giving circles world was with HEKDESH, a giving circle of alumni of the Dorot Fellowship in Israel. She got hooked, and is now also a member of Natan and the Jewish Women's Foundation of NY, in addition to helping coordinate the Tzedakah Roundtable at Schechter Manhattan. Julie is excited to help others start Jewish giving circles.
Ora has over a decade of professional experience in strategic planning, specializing in philanthropic advising, grants management and organizational development. Ora has worked as a consultant to early and mid-stage non-profits helping them lift the standard of excellence surrounding their organizational practices. She has guided organizations through a variety of internal planning processes, including program development, fundraising strategy, evaluation design, staff management, and board development. She is dedicated to helping her clients build confidence in their mission and become more pragmatic in how they operate their organizations as well as how they impact the community around them. Ora has also held volunteer leadership roles in a number of organizations whose primary focus is creating inclusive school environments for children of all backgrounds, abilities and disabilities. Ora currently serves on the board of Luria Academy of Brooklyn where her three children are learning and thriving.
Elizabeth Fisher is Amplifier's CEO. Liz comes to Amplifier from Repair the World, where she led the organization’s expansion, fundraising, communications, and operations. During her time at Repair the World, the organization grew from 5 to 8 cities and launched several major national digital campaigns. Liz began her career in grassroots community development with University of Missouri Extension and has worked at NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel Foundation, the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, UJA-Federation of New York, and The Jewish Education Project. While at UJA-Federation of New York, Liz served as the professional staff for two giving circles, including one that she launched. Liz lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Jeremy Brown, and two children.
Sasha Raskin-Yin is Amplifier's program director. She joined Amplifier after more than 4 years at Avodah, first as the NY Service Corps Director and then as the National Educator and New York Fellowship Director. Previously, she managed training design, implementation, and evaluation at Goddard Riverside Community Center’s Options Institute. Sasha believes that learning and community building can create change on large scales. She is an alumna of M2’s Senior Educators Cohort, JFREJ’s Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship, and Avodah’s Justice Fellowship. She holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research and a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College.