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 Press Release  Mr. Doochin brings more than 25 years of fundraising and management experience to the position. He has held leadership roles in several prestigious non-profit agencies, including UJA-Federation of New York. His primary responsibilities at NARSAD include executive management, strategic planning and development. Over a 16-year period, Mr. Doochin held a number of key executive positions at UJA-Federation. Most recently, he was executive director of the organization's annual fundraising campaign, overseeing all operations in Westchester, Long Island and Rockland counties. He also served as campaign director of UJA-Federation's "Operation Exodus," which raised $235 million for the rescue and resettlement of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews. His other positions at UJA-Federation included director of the Weiner Educational Center, where he planned and managed professional training for the employees of the federation and its 130 affiliated agencies, and associate director of Community Centers, which included 29 YM-YWHA's of the Greater New York area. While at UJA-Federation, Mr. Doochin helped establish the Upper West Side Y and the Not-for-Profit Management Institute for Jewish Communal Professionals at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Before joining UJA-Federation, Mr. Doochin served for five years as a community and program consultant with JWB (now known as the Jewish Community Centers Association). He holds joint masters degrees from the Baltimore Institute of Jewish Communal Service (a Masters of Social Work and a Master of Arts in Judaic Studies), and a post-graduate Certificate in Gerontology from Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Doochin said he welcomes the opportunity to play a leadership role to further NARSAD's critical mission. "I am proud to be associated with an organization that, in a very dynamic way, is changing the face of psychiatric research," he said. "NARSAD-funded studies have led to great advances in the understanding and treatment of serious mental illness." Mr. Doochin grew up in a small community outside of Nashville, Tennessee, where his parents owned a five and dime and art supply store. He is married to Cheryl Sandler, director of foundation relations for UJA-Federation of New York. Active in the community, the couple helped co-found the New York MacUsers' Group (NYMUG) for Apple Macintosh computer users. The Doochins live in Scarsdale with their son and daughter. |
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