In Loving Memory
The Campaign for Stuyvesant/ Alumni(ae) & Friends Endowment Fund, Inc.
P.O. 2626
Peter Stuyvesant Station
New York, NY 10009
Office
610 West 115th Street
New York, NY 10025-7771
(212) 222-9112
Neal H. Hurwitz '62
Executive Director, Development & Program Services
Neal has been consulting with non-profits since 1969. He has worked with educational, cultural, health, and social service organizations since 1958. In 1998, Neal was asked to organize the $12 million Endowment Fund effort of The Campaign for Stuyvesant, the first science high school in NYC, 100 years old in 2004.
Neal recruited the organization’s Board of Directors, the corporate and academic leadership councils and advisory boards, and inaugurated a nationwide series of special events. At the same time, Neal served as a consultant to the New York City Board of Education Chancellor's Office of Development.
From 1983-1990 Neal joined the executive staff of United Jewish Appeal, Inc and UJA-Federation of Greater New York, first as their Major Cities New Gifts Director and then as Director of Operation Upgrade. He was the National Program Director for Developmental Services & New Gifts and Director of Super Sunday. Neal helped lead and supervise programs including Corporate Fundraising, Telephone Fundraising & Telemarketing, Direct Mail, Solicitor Training & Education, Strategic Fundraising Conferences, and highly- successful video programs with AudioVistas, Inc., NY, NY.
Neal also served as Associate Director and then Major Gifts Director for New York Trades & Professions, and established Business and Professionals (BPNY) at UJA-Federation of Greater New York. He helped lead the first UJA Mission to the USSR in 1986 to help "refuseniks" emigrate from Moscow and Leningrad to Israel.
Neal is a 1962 honors graduate of Stuyvesant HS, and holds the BA and M.Phil. (ABD) from the College and Graduate Faculties, Columbia University. While at Columbia he helped found Project Double Discovery, now the oldest Upward Bound program in the United States. In 1968-69 and 1977-78, Neal was a member of the Graduate Faculties at Columbia, teaching American politics and national security studies.
He was the Founder and President of Friends of SNCC at Columbia University in 1964-65 and led Students for A Restructured University (SRU) in 1968-69, at a time when SRU was instrumental in helping establish the University Senate at Columbia.
From 1993, he helped start Deborah Bradley Construction & Management Services, Inc., a strong supporter of The Campaign for Stuyvesant.
At Stuyvesant, 1958-62, Neal was Editor-in-Chief of The Spectator and the SHS Alumni Journal, Vice-President of the NYC HS Press Association, and recipient of the Gold Medal for Journalism and the Helena Rubinstein Foundation Award.
Neal lives in Manhattan, near Columbia University, with his children Samantha Ethel, Sofia Arielle, and William Abraham Lavey (Billy)--students at the Manhattan School for Children (Empowerment PS 333) and Mott Hall II, the public middle school--and their country cat Momo. Neal's stepson, Jordan Henry Cox, is in Washington DC working for Homeland Security.