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>> My name is Amelia Ribnick Kleinman
[assumed spelling] and I am a fundraiser

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for the American Committee for Shaare
Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem,

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and I handle the whole Texas region.

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Shaare Zedek Medical Center
is a hospital in Jerusalem;

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it's actually the fasting
growing hospital in Israel.

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We are an academic medical center as well
with it being a teaching hospital for two

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of the five major medical, well two
of the five medical schools in Israel.

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So as a fundraiser, I've been in fundraising now
21 years, my role is to raise awareness as well

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as raise dollars, and in order to do that
I have to meet with potential donors,

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perspective donors and talk to them about
what we do and why it's important for them

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to give donations as well as time and
their resources, their talent to volunteer.

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I meet with community leaders who may be they're
not giving a gift but they have access to people

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who would be needing to become
aware of who we are and what we do.

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And so my day involves both phone
conversations, emails, face to face visits,

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doing research on perspective donors or
perspective individuals that I would need

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to meet with, educating myself
in the fundraising profession

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and just being a good steward for
the dollars that we are getting.