The Board of Directors of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee approved its new slate of officers for 2020 at its December meeting. Randon Carvel will serve as the new president of the board. “My goals as the new president will include continuing to raise valuable resources in order to provide for those members of our community who still have real needs in spite of the economic gains most of our community has experienced,” Carvel said. “In light of the amazing growth of our local Jewish community, now with approximately 35,000 people living in Jewish households, we hope to engage them in even more meaningful ways both on our incredible re-imagined 32-acre campus and by bringing Federation to them throughout our two-county area.”

Past President Michael Ritter noted, “During the last two years, through the hard work of our talented staff and lay leadership, we’ve made great progress toward realizing our vision of redeveloping our 32-acre campus, as well as successfully launching our capital campaign required to fund the project. We also completed our first community-wide population study in 18 years, which will provide the Federation and other Jewish organizations valuable information about the needs and wants of our community members. “Our new President, Randon Carvel, has been very involved with Federation for several years and understands our organization and its challenges. I am very confident that Randon is up to this challenge and will do a great job.”

Other officers will include Michael Ritter, Immediate Past President; Ian Black, Vice-President Campus Utilization; Merrill Wynne, Vice-President Development; Stacy Hanan, Vice-President Capital Campaign; Bob Israeloff, Treasurer; David Millstone, Secretary and Governance Officer; and at-large officers: Tom Bernstein, Roz Goldberg, Anne Spindel, Peter Wells and Patti Wertheimer. New board members include Joel Morganroth, Mark Smotkin and Larry Zaslavsky.