Spirit of Peggy Award

Nina Ross has been actively involved with UJA for over two decades and currently sits on its Board of Directors. She is a founding member of the Westchester Nedivot Impact Philanthropy Fund through UJA Women. Nedivot has donated nearly $3.5 million over the last 15 years to Jewish causes, with its focus on supporting Israel, enhancing Jewish engagement in New York, and addressing antisemitism. Over the years, her involvement has included roles as Scarsdale area chair, chair of Westchester LOJ Art and Design, and Westchester Women’s Philanthropy executive committee vice chair, and she has served on the Jewish Life in the Neighborhood Network Commission and the Commission of Jewish Identity and Renewal. Nina has also participated in several UJA missions, including to Russia, Poland, Austria and Hungary, and Morocco.

Nina has been on the board of Westchester Jewish Community Services, a UJA partner agency, for the past 18 years. There, she founded the Art Explorers afterschool program, which brought art education and creative art projects to elementary school children in Mount Vernon.

Nina cofounded Art on the Edge, LLC, which, for the last 12 years, has taken clients on monthly visits to artists’ studios and helps clients acquire art. Nina also cofounded the business Art Adventures Away, which takes clients on educational art getaways outside of New York City.

Nina has participated in numerous charitable and education-based endeavors in Westchester. She served on the Scarsdale Student Transfer Program (“STEP”) committee for many years. Her family volunteered as a STEP host family for a young man from Memphis, hosting him in their home for his junior and senior year at Scarsdale High School.

Nina and her husband, Ivan, raised their three sons in Scarsdale. Two are married to strong Jewish women, and Nina and Ivan are eagerly awaiting the marriage of their third son this May to yet another strong Jewish woman. Each of their sons has been involved in Jewish causes through UJA, AIPAC, and other organizations. They are proud grandparents of a beautiful granddaughter.

NY Lions Lunch

Monday, November 10, 2025

11:15 AM

place Ziegfeld Ballroom, 141 West 54th Street, New York, NY, 10019

Ziegfeld Ballroom, 141 West 54th Street, New York, NY, 10019