THE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION, INC.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellows Program
AIM for Excellence Conference
June 16, 2004

"While they are finding the cures for all the ills of the world, someone will be hungry, someone will be cold. That's our job."

Harry Weinberg 

2004 AIM FOR EXCELLENCE CONFERENCE JUNE 16, 2004

BWI AIRPORT MARRIOTT

CONFERENCE FLOOR PLAN

About Our Presenters

Darrell D. Friedman 

Long recognized nationally and internationally as one of America's leading figures in Jewish communal life, Darrell D. Friedman has devoted more than 30 years of professional service to the Jewish philanthropic movement. As of September 2003, Darrell assumed the position of Special Consultant to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York City, where he resides with his family.

From December 1986 through June 2003, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. His tenure was remarkable as a period of sustained growth for the Baltimore federation. Under Mr. Friedman's leadership, THE ASSOCIATED's general Campaign enjoyed continued success and became a national model throughout the federation movement. A consummate community-builder, Mr. Friedman worked tirelessly to create consensus and move his community forward on the vital issues affecting the Jewish people.

A native of San Francisco, Mr. Friedman earned a B.A. degree from the University of California and a M.S.W. from the University of California, School of Social Work. He is married to Felice Shapiro and is the father of three children, Jill, Martin and Jacob. He takes special pride in his four grandchildren, Sam, Sofia, Joshua, and Sarah.

George Kleb 

A 2003 Weinberg Fellow, George Kleb is the Executive Director of the Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation. He works with the Bon Secours Health System to implement community-driven, neighborhood revitalization in West Baltimore. George is a founding board member of Y.A.N.A. (You Are Never Alone). In addition, George is a key member of the band, YDOUASK, which performs regularly in the Baltimore area.

George earned a Housing and Community Development Certificate from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from McDaniel College.

Russell Linden, Ph.D. 

Russ Linden is a management educator who specializes in organizational change methods. Since 1980, he has helped government, non-profit and private-sector organizations develop leadership, foster innovation, and improve organizational performance. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia, University of Maryland, and the Federal Executive Institute. He writes a column on management innovations for The Virginia Review, and has produced national videoconferences and web casts on re-engineering, the human side of change, and on collaboration. He was named the Williams Distinguished Visiting Scholar for spring, 2003, at the State University of New York (Fredonia).

Russ has studied innovative organizations in Japan and the U.S. His current teaching and consulting interests include the human side of change, learning organization principles, re-engineering for seamless service, customer-focused organizations, and collaboration across organizational boundaries. For more, see his web site: www.russlinden.com.

He has published numerous articles, and his first book, From Vision to Reality: Strategies of Successful Innovators in Government, came out in 1990. His next book, Seamless Government: A Practical Guide to Re-engineering in the Public Sector (Jossey-Bass, 1994), was excerpted in the May, 1995 issue of Governing Magazine. In 2002 it was translated into Chinese. His most recent book is Working Across Boundaries: Making Collaboration Work in Government and Nonprofit Organizations (published in 2002). It was a finalist for the best book on nonprofit management in 2002 (awarded by the Alliance for Nonprofit Management). His clients have included the National Geographic Society, several military and intelligence agencies, Health Data Services, Inc., U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Dept. of State, Metro Information Services, Inc., Government of the Cayman Islands, Drug Enforcement Agency, U.S. Dept. of Treasury and of Education, two state attorneys general and over four dozen state and local government agencies. He's also worked with several non-profit agencies in the U.S. and Israel. Some local governments are redesigning their organizations using the principles in his book, Seamless Government.

Before beginning his full-time practice, Russ was a Senior Faculty Member at the Federal Executive Institute. He served as the Director of Executive Programs at the University of Virginia's Center for Public Service, taught at the University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce, and taught and managed in the human services field for 10 years.

Yolanda Johnson Pruitt

Yolanda Johnson Pruitt, sSenior dDirector, Major Gifts, University of Maryland, Baltimore has been in the field of university development for more than 20 years. In 1997, Yolanda joined the staff of the University of Maryland, Baltimore as the campus' first Director of Major Gifts. In this role she works closely with President David Ramsay on the cultivation of significant gifts from prospective donors. Yolanda also provides leadership to school-based fund raising professionals for school-based capital campaigns and development of their major gifts programs. She is also the campus fund raising professional responsible for developing a national strategy for foundation support.

Yolanda's tenure as a university development officer began in 1982 when she joined the staff of the University of Maryland College Park as Assistant Director of Development. Over the next 15 years Ms. Pruitt held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility eventually becoming the campus Director of Special Projects and the Director of Development for the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Much of her experience centered on raising major gifts for campus-wide programs and scientific initiatives.

Privately, Yolanda encourages individuals and organizations to embrace the concept of strategic philanthropy. She convinced the graduate chapter of her sorority to establish a 501(c)(3) foundation in 1984 and has participated in numerous volunteer activities focused on encouragement of philanthropy including the Baltimore Giving Project, African-American Philanthropy Initiative Working Group. She is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation's Weinberg Fellows Program and the Baltimore Safe and Sound Campaign.

A graduate of the University of Maryland College Park, and the University of Maryland School of Law, Yolanda is an active member of the American Bar Association, the Sandy Spring Civic Association, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.Inspiring her to undertake these projects is her husband of 25 years Norman and their two daughters, Lauren and Mary.

Michael Sarbanes 

Michael Sarbanes began in April, 2003 as executive director of Citizen's Planning and Housing Association in Baltimore, a six-decade old organization devoted to giving citizens and communities a voice in regional planning and policy. He was most recently deputy chief of staff to Maryland''s Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, and was previously executive director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control & Prevention, where he helped to spearhead a statewide effort to support comprehensive anti-crime strategies in high-crime communities. Prior to that, he was the director of the Comprehensive Communities Program, a successful effort of communities, police, and private groups to reduce the causes and impacts of open air drug dealing. He has also been a staff attorney at the Community Law Center in Baltimore, representing community groups in civil legal actions.

He is a graduate of Princeton University, Oxford University and the New York University School of Law. He resides in the Irvington neighborhood of Baltimore City, is active in the Irvington Community Association, and works with neighborhood youth as a coach and church leader.

Roundtable Conversations with Local Funders

Resource Fair Exhibitors

Weinberg Fellows Agencies 

Other Not-For-Profit Resources

2004 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellows

2003 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellows

2002 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellows

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellows Program

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellows Program, created and funded by The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, is a management enhancement program for executive directors of agencies serving disadvantaged individuals. It provides practical, interactive sessions focused on key elements of nonprofit management; exploration of issues important to agency leaders; the chance to meet and form long-term relationships with peers, and opportunities to identify and connect to a rich network of other helpful resources. The program was first introduced in 1992 in Hawai'i, where more than 200 Weinberg Fellows have since graduated and are making a difference throughout the Islands. Assisted by a Board of Advisors which includes leaders of the foundation, social service and academic communities, the Foundation replicated the program for the Baltimore community in 2002. The third group of Baltimore Weinberg Fellows will be graduating in October, 2004.

Board of Advisors
Alfred L. Castle, The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation
Robert C. Embry, Jr., The Abell Foundation
William G. Ewing, Maryland Food Bank
Darrell D. Friedman, The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.
Yolanda J. Pruitt, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Earl S. Richardson, Ph.D., Morgan State University
Lester M. Salamon, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Michael A. Sarbanes, Citizens Planning and Housing Association
Terri L. Turner, Marriott Corporation, Inc. Larry E. Walton, United Way of Central Maryland, Inc.

Program Manager: Ted Gross, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc.

Consultant: Holly Henderson, Integrated Outcomes

Special thanks to our administrative team

Suzanne Caldwell, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc.
Beverly Steimel and Kenya Asli, Citizens Planning and Housing Association
Amy Silberman and Carol Madden, The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, Inc.

The Weinberg Fellows - Awards Programs

AIM for Excellence (Achievement in Management for Excellence) Award is an awards program established by The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Its purpose is to encourage Weinberg Fellows to effectively use their program-related learnings to make positive changes affecting those whom it is their mission to serve. Awards go to the agencies, in honor of their Executive Directors. The Committee has considerable latitude in its decision-making. A; awards from $1,000 to $25,000 may be made, based on the strength of the entries -or, if entries are not sufficiently solid in a particular year, none at all. The first winner of the AIM Awards in Baltimore was a collaboration of three Weinberg Fellows: Leslie Kirkland of The Loading Dock, Talib Horne of East Harbor Community Development Corporation, and Jenny Hope, formerly with Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity.

The Aloha Shirt Award (Weinberg Aloha Ambassador Exchange Program) is another awards program connected to the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellows Program, which provides an annual opportunity for a Baltimore Weinberg Fellow to travel to Hawai`i, and a Hawai`i Weinberg Fellow to travel to Baltimore. The goal of the exchange program is to strengthen the ability of agencies serving two of the communities important to Harry Weinberg and to provide more effective service to those in need by having Weinberg Fellows and their agencies learn from each other. The activities in the two locations may be different, but both offer a chance to learn, to share experiences, and to connect the two communities and agencies as the Fellows compare fresh ideas and best practices with each other. Aloha Shirt Award winners visit with Fellows in similar fields of interest, and make presentations about their agencies, programs and services. Each Weinberg Aloha Ambassador is also asked to make brief reports and presentations to Foundation Trustees upon returning home and at the AIM for Excellence Conference.

Previous winners of the Aloha Shirt Award include Linda Stewart, The Maryland Mentoring Partnership , Jan Hoffberger, Volunteers for Medical Engineering, Inc., and Mary Anne Long, Ko'olau loa Educational Alliance Corporation.

Harry Weinberg (1908-1990) and Jeanette Weinberg (1909-1989)

The late Harry Weinberg was actively involved in real estate and other business pursuits throughout many areas of the United States, with primary concentrations in several of the Hawaiian Islands, Baltimore, Maryland and Scranton, Pennsylvania. His late wife, Jeanette, was an avid and talented painter

Harry Weinberg

Harry Weinberg was born in 1908 in Sambur, Galicia. His father emigrated to Baltimore and, shortly thereafter, sent for his wife and four children. Growing up in southwest Baltimore, young Harry had little, if any, tolerance for the constraints of formal education and left school in the sixth grade. However, clearly, he had other aptitudes. At the age of nine, he hired a sub-contractor to work his paper route for a day, so that he would be free to attend the World War I victory parade. But Harry wasn't there to enjoy the festivities. He had invested his meager savings in small American flags, pins and similar patriotic souvenirs to sell to spectators along the parade route. Business was so good that he sold out and replenished his stock several times in what he would later describe as his "first big killing."

After a relatively short stay in Philadelphia working for a tire store, he returned to Baltimore and, at the age of fourteen, with the meager capital he had accumulated by literally saving his pennies and with whatever free rent and credit he could talk his landlord and suppliers into advancing, he opened his own tire store. As was to be the case throughout his life, his unique combination of business genius and disciplined work ethic made the store a success and furnished the capital for his early forays into real property investing.

An ever-increasing interest in real estate eventually led him to invest in public companies with substantial such holdings, the true value of which was neither reported on the companies' balance sheets nor reflected in the market prices of their stock. He never acted without having done his homework and often understood his target's business and underlying asset values far better than its own officers and board of directors. He was able, in almost every instance, to force the company's management to realize the value of its non-productive assets, thereby enriching the company's stockholders. He was very proud that no long-term investor in a publicly-held company he controlled ever lost money on that investment. Even his bitterest critics could not deny his genius.

But far more important is the decision by Harry and Jeanette Weinberg regarding the eventual disposition of the considerable assets they had accumulated. In 1959, they caused the formation of, and contributed the initial funding for, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. Over the next three decades, Harry would inform his colleagues time and again that everything would end up in the Foundation "for the poor people." And so it did.

Harry Weinberg passed away in 1990, little more than a year after the death of his wife. The Foundation they formed is today one of the largest such organizations in the world and its charitable endeavors are a tribute to their generosity.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit institution dedicated to aiding those unfortunate people who by reason of poverty, disability, failing health and/or advanced age are unable to adequately help themselves. The Foundation, which was established in 1959 by Harry and Jeanette Weinberg, makes grants to charitable organizations which will use the additional funding to benefit those individuals whose financial resources are less than the financial resources of fifty percent of the members of the relevant community.

The Foundation has become one of the twenty-five largest private foundations in the United States, with a market value of approximately 1.9 billion dollars as of February 29, 2004. Total charitable distributions for the most recent fiscal year were approximately one hundred million dollars worldwide.

Trustees

Bernard Siegel, President
Alvin Awaya
Timothy P. Kelly
Shale D. Stiller, Esq.
Donn Weinberg