Joyce Gordon

Director, Jewish Life at Duke University

Role
Director, Jewish Life at Jewish Life At Duke
Location
Durham, NC, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Joyce Gordon

I live by two mottos in my approach to work- Behind the scenes. This is where…

Experience

  1. Director, Jewish Life

    Jewish Life At Duke

    Jul 2018 — Present · Durham, NC, US

    As the Director of Jewish Life at Duke (JLD), I lead a team of seven in advocacy, outreach, programs, and activities for Jewish students at Duke University. On a day-to-day basis, that can look like meeting a prospective student and her family to share what it\'s like being Jewish on campus, preparing a quarterly budget forecast, visiting with a donor for a major gift solicitation, having coffee with a student to learn more about them and their own Jewish journey, and meeting with a colleague to discuss the next steps for a program we\'re planning. By the numbers - in my time so far with JLD, we\'ve more than doubled our unrestricted annual giving, we\'ve received over $2M in endowment pledges and gifts, we\'ve trained over 650 faculty and staff through our 3.5 hour Antisemitism 101 seminar, and I\'ve had more than 500 individual coffee chats with students, getting to know them and helping them connect to the wider Duke community. Beyond the numbers - what\'s really at the heart of my work - the relationships that I\'ve been fortunate enough to develop with students, parents, alumni, as well as Duke and Hillel colleagues have helped to strengthen not only Duke and the Duke Jewish community, but have been some of the most personally fulfilling. I\'ve had the opportunity to celebrate with students in their moments of achievement, to comfort them in their times of stress, to teach and to learn, to create, assess, and innovate.

Education

  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    MPA

    2005 — 2007

  • Rice University

    Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Language and Literature/Letters

    1994 — 1998

Skills

  • Non-Profits
  • Management
  • Program Development
  • Grants
  • Policy Analysis
  • Program Budgeting
  • Budgeting
  • Public Speaking
  • Non-Profit Leadership
  • Event Planning
  • Stewardship
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Relations
  • Program Evaluation
  • Program Management
  • Direct Mail Fundraising
  • Leadership
  • Grant Writing
  • Financial Reporting
  • Writing
  • Volunteer Management
  • Copywriting
  • Budgets
  • Fundraising
  • Community Outreach
  • Community Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Board Development
  • Annual Giving
  • Nonprofits
  • Non-Profit Administration
  • Staff Development
  • Public Policy
  • Human Resources

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