Volunteering is nothing new for Mr. Grief. By giving his time to both fundraise and volunteer for multiple companies, foundations, charities, and services, Lee Greif has shown a running track record of hard work and help. With his help, many companies and organizations that touch multiple different lives have been helped. Grief has helped everything from his religion to the medical field, and for nearly everything in between, helping the entire community and greater Kansas City area along the way.
Mr. Grief has served on the Board of Directors and as the Vice President of the congregation for his temple, the Temple B’Nai Jehudah. The temple serves nearly 1,800 families. Not only has Mr. Grief helped the temple fundraise, but has helped on various committees.
Mr. Grief has also continued his work in the Jewish community with the help for the Jewish Community Campus. Mr. Grief served on two committees during a six year period, helping the organization raise $10 million for the actual Jewish Community Campus itself; the money was part of a donation and fundraising process that help build the building and start the campus process. Mr. Grief has also helped the Jewish Federation of Kansas City as far as money is concerned; Grief chaired the budget committee and donated both time and money to help the fundraising efforts of the organization.
Mr. Grief has not only helped the Jewish community, but the community in general around the Kansas City Area. Channel 19 is the local public television station that Mr. Grief has volunteered both his time and money for. Once serving on the Board of Directors, as an Officer of the Corporation as the Secretary, and as a member of the Executive Committee, Mr. Grief helped to develop children’s programming for the station. He also helped it develop entrepreneurial programs for the station, and helped with the fundraising for the organization.
The medical field of Kansas City and the greater Kansas City Area has also felt the affects of Mr. Grief’s volunteer work. Grief was the director of one of the 13 not-for-profit hospitals that cover the greater Kansas City area. He also served as a member of an executive committee that helped set policies for the organization and the entire 13 hospital group as well.
The Learning Exchange of Greater Kansas City has also felt the volunteer work of Mr. Grief. Serving as a chairman of the organization, Mr. Grief helped guide the company through its early development. This organization helps to, among other things, develop programs to benefit children in the multiple school districts in the area. Mr. Grief was also the director for the center for Management Assistance. This organization helped provide management assistance for non-profit organizations.
Lee Greif works often to help organizations that need fundraising help. As a Chairman of the Investment Committee for the Jewish Community Foundation, he offered help as a financial advisor, one of the tools to his vast amount of volunteer work.