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Devon Meier worked as the Chief Development Officer at Jewish Family Services (JFS) of Washtenaw County from 2020-2022. In her role as Chief Development Officer, Meier was responsible for the annual giving and major gifts program, as well as, other fundraising efforts for JFS. In this interview, Meier explains how she got her role at JFS, a day in the life of a chief development officer, and what fundraising looked like during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meier describes how JFS got involved in the Afghan resettlement following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the logistics of resettlement work, fundraising for the Afghan humanitarian parolees, and the collaboration between JFS and Eastern Michigan University in resettling 12 of the Afghan families into student housing in 2022.

Interview Date

Spring 4-2-2024

Keywords

Devon Meier, Jewish Family Services, fundraising, resettlement, Afghan crisis, Afghan refugees, housing, oral history

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Permission to quote from this oral history should be requested from the University Archives (lib_archives@emich.edu).

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Devon Meier, Oral History Interview, 2024

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