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Karen Deutsch presented Ne’Eman award
By Paula Filler
The Board of Directors of Jewish Federation of Greater Naples was pleased to present the distinguished award of “Ne'Eman" to Karen Deutsch at its March board meeting. This award was provided to demonstrate our gratitude for her dedication and hard work in various leadership positions at Jewish Federation of Greater Naples. The entire board wanted to recognize Duetsch’s personal contribution of time, energy and passion in serving our community for more than 10 years.
As many of you know, Deutsch was a member and then became chair of the Allocations Committee. This committee does the challenging work of making sure only the worthiest of beneficiary organizations receive our financial support. Later, Deutsch began working on the Annual Campaign to help raise funds. She quickly became chair of the Annual Campaign with the enormous responsibility of organizing, training and leading a cadre of volunteers who are responsible for all the fundraising. Each year, the Annual Campaign supports all our programming and funds our entire philanthropic initiatives here in Naples, the United States and wherever Jews are in need around the world.
After her outstanding performance in this area, Deutsch was given the additional responsibility of raising funds for our Capital Campaign and legacy initiative, assuming the role of finance and resource development chair. Later, she also assumed responsibility as vice chair of the board. We are deeply grateful for all of Karen Deutsch’s selfless dedication to making a positive difference in our community and for Jews in need around the world.
