Rachel Garbow Monroe began her term as President of The Weinberg Foundation in February of 2010. Monroe joined the Foundation in 2005 as the organization’s first Chief Operating Officer. During her tenure at the Foundation, significant changes have taken place including retention of a new team of more than 25 professional staff to execute the work of the Foundation; the creation and launch of the Weinberg Foundation’s Annual Community Gathering (more than 900 guests); a new Israel Mission Alumni Scholars Program; a new annual Employee Giving Program; the new Maryland Small Grants Program (which has granted close to $13 million to several hundred nonprofits during its first three years); and just to be announced, a new major elementary school library initiative.

Monroe’s previous professional roles included serving as the Chief Operating Officer for The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, the Worldwide Director of Marketing for the international architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and as the marketing manager for the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago.

For five years, Monroe served as an adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University, teaching a graduate nonprofit marketing course at the University’s Institute for Policy Studies. Monroe earned a B.A. from Northwestern University and an MM (MBA) from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she majored in marketing and nonprofit management.

She was recognized by The Daily Record as a 2010 Influential Marylander, as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women three times (2011, 2009 and 2007) which placed Rachel in the “Circle of Excellence”, and “40 Under 40” by the Baltimore Business Journal (2006).