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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- February 8, 2002
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more information, contact Bernard Siegel
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INAUGURAL CLASS SELECTED FOR 2002 HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FELLOWS PROGRAM
Training
to Begin in April for an Innovative Leadership Development Initiative to Train
Executive Directors Of Nonprofit Agencies in Baltimore City
Baltimore, MD. A diverse group of executive directors of non-profit agencies serving the disadvantaged of Baltimore City have been selected to join the inaugural class of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Fellows Program, which will begin an extensive series of training sessions in April, 2002, at the Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center in Reisterstown, Maryland.
The Inaugural Class List may be found here.
The Weinberg Fellows Program for Baltimore City will train selected nonprofit executive directors and board members, adding to their knowledge and honing their skills, developing common standards and understanding of best practices and positioning their services for maximum benefit to the Baltimore community. The idea is to assist disadvantaged people by strengthening the effectiveness of nonprofit agencies serving them.
Created and funded by The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, the Weinberg Fellows Program is an innovative leadership development initiative designed to enhance community-based nonprofit agency capacity to assist people in need. The program, held annually, was first introduced in 1992 in Hawaii, where more than 200 Weinberg Fellows have since graduated and are making a difference throughout the Islands. Now the Weinberg Foundation is replicating and adapting its program to serve Baltimore, assisted by a Board of Advisors which includes leaders of Baltimore's foundation, social service and academic communities.
Bernard Siegel, President of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Incorporated, explains the thinking behind the Weinberg Fellows program:
”Many, even most, nonprofit agencies helping Baltimore City's disadvantaged residents towards a brighter future are headed by overworked, underpaid people who, day after day, not only make do with insufficient resources, but have little, if any, opportunity to catch up on current management ideas and skills or to interact with their peers. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation admires these vital community leaders, and created the Weinberg Fellows Program to give them fresh support from a local network of caring experts in the foundation, business, academic, government and human service communities -- but maybe most importantly, from each other."
The Program’s instructors, panelists and resource people will include experts from nonprofit organizations; business, professional and consulting firms; government agencies; professors from local universities and colleges and staff of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations.
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Incorporated 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. Established in 1959 by Harry and Jeanette Weinberg, the Foundation makes grants to charitable organizations which will use the funding to benefit predominantly those individuals whose financial resources are less than those of at least half the members of their community. Its total charitable distributions for the current fiscal year to date exceed ninety million dollars, including grants to Maryland recipients totaling approximately twenty million dollars.
Fact Sheet
Selection Criteria
Board of Advisors
Calendar Contact Information
– Fellows Program
