The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair

Friday, June 2, 2017

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today announced that Mr. Robert T. Kelly, Jr., who has served as a trustee of the Weinberg Foundation since 2006, has been elected as chair of the board for a three-year term beginning today.

Mr. Kelly succeeds Mr. Barry I. Schloss, who joined the Foundation in 2004 and most recently served as the chair of the board for the Foundation for a three-year term that concluded May 31, 2017.

"It is my privilege to serve the Weinberg Foundation in this new capacity," said incoming Chair of the Board Robert T. Kelly, Jr. "Since my election to the Board of Directors more than a decade ago, I have had the pleasure of working to advance the mission and agenda of the Foundation— from governance and investment management to grantmaking and operations. Over the course of the next three years, the Foundation will continue to prioritize asset growth as well as maximizing the Foundation's philanthropic impact..."