Weinberg Foundation Announces New Trustee At Annual Community Gathering

BALTIMORE, Nov. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At their upcoming Annual Community Gathering, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation will make a milestone announcement — the first Trustee not designated by Harry Weinberg --- as well as celebrate the Foundation's mission, partnerships, and accomplishments of the past year.

Featured speaker—

• Daniel Lubetzky, CEO and founder of KIND Healthy Snacks and the KIND Movement

WHEN: 
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
(4:30 p.m. reception begins, 5:00 p.m. program begins, 5:50 p.m. program concludes)

WHERE:
Beth El Congregation
8101 Park Heights Avenue
Pikesville, MD 21208

CONTACT:
Craig Demchak, Director of Marketing and Communications
443-738-1159, [email protected] 

During the past year, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation distributed more than $90 million in grants to nonprofits serving low-income and vulnerable individuals and families. Every year, as much as 40 percent of all Weinberg Foundation funding remains within Maryland benefitting, in particular, the greater Baltimore metropolitan area.

Since 1980, the Foundation has distributed grants totaling $1.9 billion. Foundation grants are allocated through six program areas and are focused on meeting basic needs such as shelter, nutrition, health, and socialization and on enhancing an individual's ability to meet those needs. Additionally, the Foundation's grantmaking emphasizes serving older adults and the Jewish community.

About The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private charitable foundations in the United States, provides approximately $100 million in annual grants to nonprofits that provide direct services to low-income and vulnerable individuals and families, primarily in the US and Israel. Grants are focused on meeting basic needs and enhancing an individual's ability to meet those needs with emphasis on older adults, the Jewish community, and our hometown communities of Maryland, Northeastern Pennsylvania, and Hawaii. The trustees, some of whom also serve as executive officers of the Foundation, are Donn Weinberg, Barry I. Schloss,  Robert T. Kelly, Jr., Alvin Awaya, and Chair Ellen M. Heller. Rachel Garbow Monroe serves as the Weinberg Foundation's President and Chief Executive Officer.  

Media Contact: Craig Demchak, 443-738-1159 , [email protected]

SOURCE Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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