A SPECIAL FROM THE JEWISH JOURNAL
COMMUNITY LEADERS GORDON AND GRETCHEN GROSS WILL BE HONORED BY THE NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST COMMUNITIES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 AT 6:00 PM AT THE HYATT REGENCY BUFFALO. T
HE CITATION BANQUET, WHERE THE COUPLE WILL BE FETED IS AN ANNUAL\ EVENT THAT GIVES PUBLIC RECOGNITION AND HONOR TO THOSE WHOSE ACHIEVEMENTS CONTRIBUTE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF NFJC’S OBJECTIVES AND MISSION. INDIVIDUALS ARE AWARDED THIS CITATION BASED, IN PART, ON THEIR DEVOTION TO THE SPIRIT OF HUMAN RELATIONS.
The Grosses, through their leadership and legendary philanthropy, indeed have made Buffalo—not just Jewish Buffalo—a better place in which everyone can live. Most recently, they endowed a professorship with a lead gift to UB’s Department of Jewish Thought, Heritage and Culture.
The Jewish Community Center has been a beneficiary of the Gross Family generosity, through gifts to Camp Centerland, the JCC and having both Gordon and Gretchen serve as president and members of many committees, task forces and the board of directors.
Gordon has also served as president of the Buffalo Jewish Federation, the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies, Kadimah School, chaired the Federation’s United Jewish Fund Campaign, served on the SUNY and Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s board, as well as many other local and national organizations. Gretchen, an educator and retired school owner and director of the Audubon at College Park Early Childhood Center, has been very active in the Federation, the former AJC, the Bureau of Jewish Education, United Way’s Success by Six, as well as many other groups.
Both have been named the Federation’s Nathan Benderson Award Winner, have been honored by the AJC, Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, University of Buffalo, the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies and Federation, among others. Tickets and tables are available to purchase by calling 853-9596