While Noah Saposnik’s day job is working as the senior campaign director for Montgomery College, directing all sorts of fundraising efforts and campaigns, that wasn’t enough for him.

Montgomery College is a place he appreciates and is happy to work for, but he decided that he also wanted to do the work he does best for his own community.

“I’ve been doing fundraising full-time for the last 18 years outside of the Jewish community, [I’m] really trained in secular best practices, and I really wanted to bring those skills to the Jewish community. I love supporting different Jewish organizations, many of which don’t even have any kind of fundraising systems in place, or best processes in place, and just helping them up their game and raise their overall fundraising and engagement experiences to the next level. I find [it to be] so much fun and rewarding, and kind of a way of giving back,” Saposnik said.

Saposnik acts as a consultant for a number of Jewish organizations throughout the year, sometimes working with them for regular intervals and sometimes as more of a one-off partnership. He coaches fundraising campaigns and helps organizations maximize their reach when it comes to raising funds.

Sometimes, Saposnik works with an organization that hasn’t even begun to capitalize on its potential. Those are rewarding experiences.

“Jewish Caring Network Tikva House never did a campaign of significant size. I started working with them several months ago, and it has massive potential,” Saposnik said. “This was a 24/7 kind of all-encompassing project, and they raised over $620,000 for families facing long-term significant illness. That was a recent massive success in seeing direct support go into the hands of families in our community.”

Saposnik works with a number of smaller Chabad houses in the same way. For Chabad, this is especially important because each Chabad house is responsible for its own fundraising, receiving no money from the national organization. As with any campaign that Saposnik directs, the core basis is getting through to people with authenticity.

“They’re engaging their donors on a regular basis as they’re sending out special, authentic messaging, and just to see this organization grow in their donor engagement apparatus, which leads to greater fundraising, that kind of thing really speaks to me, and I find it very fulfilling,” Saposnik said.

Part of the reason that it’s easy for him to do so much for Jewish organizations in the area is the fact that Saposnik loves Baltimore. He hails from South Florida and his wife is from New Jersey, but they settled in Baltimore, finding it to be homey and sincere.

“We love this community. We have three young kids here. [We like] the schools, the restaurants. We like having this as our home,” Saposnik said.

The Suburban Orthodox Congregation Toras Chaim member said he grew up attending Jewish day schools in South Florida, and that his kids attend The Talmudical Academy of Baltimore. For Saposnik, a thorough Jewish education is of paramount importance. His parents made that possible for him, and he’s making it possible for his kids, too.

“There’s nothing more important to us than having our kids in a solid [Jewish] background. I was afforded the opportunity with scholarship my whole life, and both my parents worked full-time out of the house,” Saposnik said. “My grandparents were very involved as well, and so for us, it’s a non-negotiable that there’s nothing more important than providing our kids with a strong, solid education both at home and outside the home.”

Saposnik’s first job out of graduate school was working for The Associated, adding to his Jewish Baltimore bonafides. Today, Saposnik continues to work to better the community in the city he now calls home.

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