Alene G. Sussman

Executive Director Minnesota Jewish Community Foundation & Senior Director of Minneapolis Jewish Federation Charitable Gift Planning

Alene G. Sussman is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Jewish Community Foundation (MN JCF) and Senior Director of Minneapolis Jewish Federation Charitable Gift Planning.

MN JCF helps its fund holders give through a Jewish lens and promotes the concept of tikkun olam (repairing the world). In 2022, MN JCF helped its fund holders send $7.3 million out to causes and organizations (both Jewish and non-Jewish) all around the world.

Alene is a former in-house attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and prior to that practiced at the law firm of Dorsey and Whitney LLP. She graduated from Howard University School of Law and received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Columbia University.

She volunteers for a variety of non-profits around the Twin Cities in the areas of development and fundraising, and grant making, including on the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Temple Israel (variety of committees), and the Gala Party Committee of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.