Sandra Gold is dedicated to helping the Jewish community and has been a leader in providing for those with disabilities. She has been an officer and is a member of the board of numerous local and national organizations, including: the Jewish Community Association of North America (JCCA), the JCCA Florence G. Heller Research Center where she was President, and JESNA where she is currently Chair of the Berman Center for Research and Evaluation’s Steering Committee.  In New Jersey she serves on the Allocations Committee of her UJA-Federation and as an officer and member of the Board of Trustees, Women’s Division and Business and Professional Group.  She also serves on the state board of the ADL and is Vice President of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.  Sandra is on the Board of Trustees and was President of the 12,000-member Jewish Community Center on the Palisades in New Jersey where she founded the JCC Thurnauer School of Music.  She is founding President of the UJA Community Advocacy Program, and the founder and President Emeritus of the UJA - Federation Association for the Developmentally Disabled (now called Jewish ADD).

Sandra also serves on the New York Presbyterian Committee on Patient Centered Care and Service Quality and the Columbia University Health Sciences Advisory Council. She is Executive Vice President of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, a public foundation which promotes humanism in medicine. Nationally certified as a counselor and career counselor, Sandra received her doctorate from Rutgers University, and with her husband, Dr. Arnold Gold, professor of clinical neurology and pediatrics at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, received Honorary Doctorates in Humane Letters from the Universities of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.