Rutgers Hillel Welcomes New Director of Development

Amy Winn-Dworkin, a veteran fund raising executive, has joined the professional team at Rutgers University Hillel as Director of Development.

Most recently, Winn-Dworkin served as AIPAC Area Director for Bergen County, Rockland County NY, and Riverdale NY.  As Director of Development, she is responsible for Rutgers Hillel’s $1.1 million annual campaign as well as completing the remaining $7 million of its current $18 million Capital & Endowment Campaign to build and maintain a new building on the Rutgers New Brunswick campus.

“Amy brings a wealth of private and public sector marketing and fundraising experience to Hillel,” said Andrew Getraer, Executive Director. “Her strong contacts in the New Jersey Jewish community and her personal commitment to Israel advocacy will be invaluable as we complete our capital project and expand our programming to the second largest Jewish undergraduate community in the country.”

“The Rutgers Hillel Board of Trustees is excited to begin working with Amy as we move into the home stretch of fundraising efforts to build a new Hillel,” said Roy Tanzman, Chairman. “Her broad experience in developing and cultivating community support and her personal commitment to Jewish identity and Israel is a great addition to our professional leadership team.”

At AIPAC, Winn-Dworkin managed a $1.2 million annual campaign and a donor list of 1,200. Previously, she worked at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, where she was credited with raising more than $650,000 in two years for a Birthright Israel supplemental giving program – the largest amount in the B3 network nationally. 

A trip to Israel in 2003 with her husband, Ben Dworkin, an adjunct professor and Director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University, shifted her career from politics and public service to Jewish community affairs.  In the early years of her career, she served as a lobbyist for several professional associations; a legislative aide for several Bergen County political leaders including veteran NJ State Senator Loretta Weinberg, then an Assemblywoman, and former Freeholder Chair Douglas Bern; and a strategic communications counselor.

“Amy’s considerable talents in communication, development, community organizing and strategic planning,” said Herb Tobin, senior consultant, Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Community Life, “will be a great asset as the program continues to expand in service to the Jewish student body.  She is the right person at this time to assist Rutgers Hillel’s progress toward national leadership.”

Winn-Dworkin has a bachelors degree in political science from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.  She resides in East Brunswick with her husband and daughter, Miranda, a student at the Hatikvah International Academy Charter School.

“I look forward to integrating promptly into the Rutgers professional team,” Winn-Dworkin said, “and adding my experience in Israel advocacy to its already nationally-recognized accomplishments.  My top priority will be successful completion of the Capital & Endowment Campaign to provide the critically needed campus facilities as quickly as possible.”