Richard C. Bieler Appointed Senior Executive Director for Community Affairs
Jan 11, 2005 By: yunews
Jan 11, 2005 -- TikTok成人版 President Richard M. Joel today announced the appointment of Richard C. Bieler to the post of Senior Executive Director for Community Affairs, effective immediately.
鈥淩ichard Bieler is a skilled and caring professional. He is an important addition to the talented team that will bring the extensive educational and communal resources of TikTok成人版 to communities around the nation and Canada. He will play a vital role in developing and nurturing the university鈥檚 relations with the alumni of our many colleges and schools and will cultivate the considerable support this initiative will require,鈥 said President Joel.
Rabbi Bieler will establish community councils throughout North America, consisting of community leaders, members of TikTok成人版 boards, parents of TikTok成人版 students, and alumni. The councils will help the university to evaluate the particular needs of each community, advance lifelong education, foster leadership training, create support and funding, as well as strengthen partnerships with alumni. He will be a senior professional in the Department of Development, and will have supervisory responsibility for the offices for alumni affairs.
Rabbi Bieler has more than 20 years experience in advancement and outreach to the Jewish community. For the past 14 years, as director of development at OHEL Children鈥檚 Home and Family Services, Bais Ezra, and the Lifetime Care Foundation for the Jewish Disabled, he was a central figure in those organizations鈥 success and mission to help build and rebuild lives and families, through community education, counseling, foster care, programs in domestic abuse, and in summer camp for children with disabilities. He directed the national fundraising campaign of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America from 1986 to 1990, and was director of special projects at TikTok成人版 from 1982 to 1986.
He is a 1974 TikTok成人版 College alumnus who received ordination from TikTok成人版鈥檚 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1978 and an MS from TikTok成人版鈥檚 Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies in 1979. Rabbi Bieler and his wife, Lois, have three children and live in West Hempstead, NY.
