As Touro’s Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Rubin will lead the college’s fundraising effort, define the overall direction of the philanthropic enterprise and build and manage the required infrastructure and operations. He will plan and implement annual, major gifts and capital campaigns.

“I view fundraising as a mitzvah or a sacred kind of mission that channels the divine in people. When people give to worthy causes, they are enriched in a spiritual sense. Contributing to something larger and beyond oneself offers a sense of fulfillment. Using my legal background, I work to develop novel ways to help people stretch their charitable gifts. Through tax and estate planning, I’ve been able to turn small gifts into meaningful gifts and meaningful gifts into transformative gifts,” said Rubin.

“I greatly look forward to becoming a change agent for Touro and opening up new doors of donor support to guarantee ongoing success. I look forward to advancing Touro’s culture of excellence and dual mission to strengthen the Jewish community and more broadly, to serve humankind. I believe that the future of the next generation in the U.S. depends on equality in higher education. By making educational opportunities available to all members of society, Touro is taking the torch and leading the way for America to follow. My goal is to generate support for the wide-ranging programs so that Touro can continue to meet every important need the school identifies,” continued Rubin.

Rubin currently serves as Executive Director of Institutional Advancement, Major and Planned Gifts at Yeshiva University, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cardozo School of Law and all other schools, colleges and divisions of Yeshiva University. He began his professional career as an estate planning attorney at Botein Hays and Sklar and then Thacher Profit & Wood. From there, he moved into advancement roles at the Federation, Anti-Defamation League and Yeshiva University. He earned a BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a JD from New York University School of Law.

“We are very pleased to have Henry Rubin join our staff to serve Touro in this critical role and look forward to benefitting from his wide-ranging expertise,” said Dr. Alan Kadish, Touro President.

Touro College ranks #2 in the nation among the “best private colleges for Returns On Investment,” according to 2014 PayScale College ROI Report cited in The Wall Street Journal. Touro ranks #1 in master’s degrees in education earned by African American and Latino students in New York State and 8th in the nation among 5,000 universities for graduate degrees in education awarded to minority students. Close to 100 percent of Touro students achieve a first-time pass rate on national certification exams, especially in the health sciences fields.

Educating more than 6,000 students annually in the health sciences, Touro is fast becoming one of the largest healthcare educational systems in the U.S.  In 2014, a second campus for Touro’s College of Osteopathic Medicine was opened as well as new programs to train allied health professionals. Touro offers integrated honors and medical honors pathway programs that provide opportunities for high achieving students to combine undergraduate studies with professional education on a fast track.

About the Touro College and University System

Touro is a system of non-profit institutions of higher and professional education. Touro College was chartered in 1970 primarily to enrich the Jewish heritage, and to serve the larger American and global community. Approximately 18,000 students are currently enrolled in its various schools and divisions, including 16 undergraduate, 12 graduate and seven professional schools. Touro College has 29 campuses, locations and instructional sites in the New York area, as well as branch campuses and programs in Berlin, Jerusalem, Moscow, Paris and Florida. New York Medical College, Touro University California and its Nevada branch campus, as well as Touro University Worldwide and its Touro College Los Angeles division are separately accredited institutions within the Touro College and University System. For further information on Touro College, please go to: http://www.touro.edu