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Reid Wasserstrom Recognized for Role in Foundation Endowment Growth
Each year at the United Jewish Communities (UJC) General Assembly, community leaders from around the country are honored for their work on behalf of their community’s planned giving and endowment programs. The Columbus Jewish Foundation has announced that its nominee, Reid Wasserstrom, has been selected to receive the 2007 UJC Endowment Achievement Award.
An active leader in the Columbus Jewish community for over 25 years, Wasserstrom has served the Columbus Jewish Foundation in a number of capacities, serving on the Executive Committee, Board of Trustees, Community Grants Committee and Finance Committee. In his most recent role as Investment Committee chair, he oversaw the he oversaw all the Foundation’s $124 million portfolio and successfully placed the investments on a much more secure footing.
Wasserstrom holds a substantial Donor Advised Fund at the Foundation, and, with his wife Fran, has gifted a life insurance policy through which they have made provisions to endow their favorite charities. Wasserstrom is the managing member of Wasserstrom Realty Company and is a trustee of the Wasserstrom Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in Central Ohio. He also is Chairman of the Brewery District Committee and a trustee of Dean College. He also is president of the Tifereth Israel Foundation, a support foundation of his synagogue. He received Tifereth’s Volunteer of the Year award last Spring for his role in doubling foundation holdings to $5 million, making it the largest synagogue endowment in central Ohio.
Past Columbus recipients of the Endowment Achievement Award are: Irving Schottenstein (1988); Donald Garlikov (1989); William Glick (1990); Ernest Stern (1991); James Feibel (1992); Myer Mellman (1993); Melvin Schottenstein (1994-awarded posthumously); Herbert H. Schiff (1995); Judith Swedlow, Alan Wasserstrom and Norman Traeger (1999); Jerome Schottenstein family members and the Lou Robins family(2000);and Irving Baker (2003). Wasserstrom will receive the Endowment Achievement Award at UJC’s November 11-13 General Assembly in Memphis, Tennessee.
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