Rachel Garbow Monroe

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CEO & President
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Rachel Garbow Monroe is president and CEO of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, a $3.1 billion private charitable foundation dedicated to meeting the basic needs of people experiencing poverty.

Monroe joined the Weinberg Foundation in 2005 as its first chief operating officer and was promoted to president and CEO in 2010. The foundation provides approximately $150 million in grants each year across the United States and Israel.

During her tenure, Monroe has grown the foundation’s staff to more than 70 professionals in Baltimore and Honolulu; built its first internal investment team and investment advisory committee; and successfully rebranded the foundation. She chairs the organization’s program (grants) committee, monitors all legal matters with outside counsel and manages board governance and succession efforts.

Monroe also has launched diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the foundation, solidifying its commitment to promoting equity internally and in its grantmaking. She travels to Israel frequently to advance the foundation’s work there and is passionate about leading an annual mission to Israel for influential leaders from communities throughout the United States for the past 17 years.

Before joining the Weinberg Foundation, Monroe was chief operating officer for The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore; the worldwide director of marketing for the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and marketing manager for the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago.

She also served as an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, where she taught a graduate nonprofit marketing course at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Monroe earned a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University and a Master of Management from Norhtwestern’s J.L. Kellogg School of Management.

This profile is part of The Daily Record's Power 100 List for 2023-2024. Information used in this profile was sourced from the honoree. See the full list at origintdrdev.wpengine.com.