Fred Gober Joins Hearts & Homes for Youth Board of Directors

In this role, Gober will advise Hearts & Homes for Youth on a number of business and strategy issues relating to expanding awareness and services for the Silver Spring non-profit. Gober became actively involved with Hearts & Homes during the planning of the organization’s first annual HONORS fundraising gala in May, in which he worked closely with Larry Davis, Hearts & Homes’ Board member and managing partner of Aronson Capital Partners. This is Gober’s first time on the Board of Directors.

Gober serves as the Principal Financial Advisor of Bernstein Global Wealth Management in Washington, D.C. Since 1999, he has served as a financial advisor to foundations, associations and wealthy families around the country.  With special training in complex asset allocation strategies, Gober works with clients and other professional advisors to create a long-term plan utilizing appropriate vehicles and assets to increase the probability of achieving financial objectives. 

Before joining Bernstein, Gober was a partner with the firm Transwestern Carey Winston, where he spent 12 years as a commercial real estate advisor representing national corporations and private investors.  He was responsible for the leasing of many of suburban Maryland’s prominent office properties.  Gober is a graduate of the University of Maryland and resides in Potomac, Maryland with his wife Terri and children Brian, Brett, and Madison.

“We are thrilled to have Fred join our Board,” commented Rex Smith, President and CEO for Hearts & Homes for Youth. “His background as a financial advisor to foundations all over the country and his work with a variety of national corporations will guide Hearts & Homes for Youth to make the best financial decisions possible; something imperative to any non-profit organization.”

Since its founding in 1964, Hearts & Homes for Youth has served over 30,000 boys and girls throughout Maryland who are neglected, abused, abandoned, homeless or otherwise at risk. Their services include the only shelter in Montgomery County specifically for kids, seven group homes, therapeutic foster care, independent living and a unique foster care program for pregnant and parenting teens.  The organization is dedicated to the mission of helping troubled children and youth who are abused, neglected, or runaways become independent, productive adults. For more information on the agency, please visit www.HeartsandHomes.org.