Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, Chief Executive Officer

Joy Sisisky named as the next CEO of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund (the Federation). 

Joy has served the Jewish community for more than twenty years, working to advance philanthropy, social justice causes, and women’s issues. At the Federation, she served as the Interim CEO and the Chief Philanthropy Officer, overseeing fundraising campaigns, gift planning, philanthropy advisory services, and leading the Endowment Fund, the second largest Jewish community foundation in the country with more than $2.3 billion in assets.

Previously, Joy served as the Executive Director of the Jewish Women's Foundation of New York, working to advance the status and well-being of women and girls in the Jewish community in New York and beyond through social change grantmaking and advocacy in the areas of economic security, leadership advancement, social entrepreneurship, and health. Before that, she was the Associate Director of National Women’s Philanthropy at United Jewish Communities (now the Jewish Federations of North America) and the Director of Development and Programs at the Israel Policy Forum, both in New York.

Joy is a former Ralph I. Goldman Fellow at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee where she spent a year living and working in Jewish communities in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Joy is co-founder of Do Good Ukraine!, the first-ever organization dedicated to building civil society through volunteerism in Ukraine.

The Federation mobilizes innovation, collaboration, and investment to shape diverse and dynamic Bay Area Jewish communities where people find a meaningful connection to Judaism and each other; and where we work together to better lives and communities locally, in Israel, and around the world.

Rebecca Swartz led this search with Jaime Morgen, Lily Sethares, and Harley Bartles.

Find the full press release here.