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Allen A. Cowett Award
The Allen A. Cowett Award is named for a long-time, dedicated Jewish Federation professional, who was a pioneer in developing and administering the allocations process for distributing funds to worthy agency recipients. The Cowett Award provides the recipient with either a trip to Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly or participation in a JFNA Young Leadership conference.
Beneficiary Organization -
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
, Beth Israel Congregation
Award Recipients
- Bob Frohman 1987
- Janet Helfgott Emmer 1988
- Miriam Halbert 1989
- Allen Rau 1990
- Bruce Sholk 1991
- Michael Fisher 1992
- Rob Craig 1993
- Craig Coleman 1994
- Jim Cohen, Ross Evans 1995
- Eric Orenstein 1996
- Walter Solomon 1997
- Rebecca Goldwasser 1998
- Heidi Hochheiser 1999 - 2000
- Josh Blatt 2001
- Ross Vigran 2004
- Aaron Weiner 2005
- David Wise 2008
- Chase Kohn 2010
- Ed Kuresman 2012
- Dr. Ronna Schneider 2014
- Sherri Symson 2016
- Vallie Freeman 2023