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Rick Krosnick
Chief Development Officer
Jewish National Fund
Rick Krosnick has spent two decades raising money to develop the land of Israel and strengthen the
Jewish people.
Rick joined Jewish National Fund in 1999 to manage its 15-state Midwest operations and in 2007
was elevated to JNF’s Executive Management team. In 2010 Rick became JNF’s Chief
Development Officer
As CDO Rick supervises the national Campaign Cabinet, comprised of top-level lay leaders and
professionals, to develop campaign initiatives, formulate short-term and long-range goals and
identify fundraising opportunities in support of JNF’s life-transforming projects in Israel.
Rick began his Jewish communal career in his hometown of Detroit, where he was the Young
Leadership Director of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. In 1993, he moved to
Chicago to join the United Jewish Appeal traveling throughout the Midwest in support of Israel.
During his tenure with UJA, Rick rose through the ranks to become Midwest Major Gifts Director.
Following his term at UJA, Rick joined the Jewish United Fund of Chicago to serve as Assistant
Vice President of the Trades, Industries and Professions Department.
Rick is a graduate of the prestigious Wexner Heritage Foundation’s two-year course in Jewish
Leadership.
Rick’s understanding of Israel and the political and socio-economic tensions of the Middle East
were shaped by his work outside of the Jewish community. Beginning in 1985, for a nine-year period
both on active-duty and in the reserve forces, Rick was an Intelligence Specialist in the United States
Navy, serving aboard the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Much of
Rick’s tenure in the Navy was spent with the U.S. Sixth Fleet operating in the eastern Mediterranean,
confronting issues of state-sponsored terrorism and other threats to the security of the United States
and our allies.