VICKI AGRON RESIGNING AS UJC DEVELOPMENT SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT

Nov. 7, 2007

After 25 years at UJC and its predecessor UJA, Victoria Agron, the senior vice-president for development, is resigning to pursue other opportunities.

“It's been an honor and a privilege to work with and for the Jewish people,” Agron said.

Joe Kanfer, chair of the UJC Board of Trustees, expressed his appreciation for Agron's longtime commitment to UJC and the continental federation system and wished her luck in her new endeavors.

"For over 10 years as a local and national volunteer and 25 years as a professional, Vicki has been deeply committed to Israel and the work of UJA, the federations and UJC," Kanfer said. "Vicki has cared deeply about the Jewish people -- recipients, leaders, donors and particularly the team she felt privileged to lead. Vicki is considered to be an inspirational role model."

During a UJA/UJC career that spanned more than 25 years and served seven CEO's, Agron worked with hundreds of national lay leaders and community volunteers, as well as local, national and overseas professionals and support staff. She spoke, solicited, trained, and consulted in communities throughout North America, traveled and led missions --more than 100 trips in all -- to Argentina, Ethiopia, England, Europe, countless cities in the FSU, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.

Agron was a Founding Member and a past National Chair of the UJA Women's Young Leadership Cabinet and later its professional National Director as well as the UJA Strategic Planning and Budgeting Director.

And Agron has also been a major donor -- a proud Sapphire Lion with a Lion of Judah Endowment, as well as a donor to every Israel Emergency Campaign in the past 35 years and the current Operation Promise.

Agron will continue at UJC as a senior vice-president through the end of the year.