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Focus on City Schools: Budget Conversation with John Walker, Interim CFO

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM

Join us for our Focus on City Schools meeting with John Walker, Interim Chief Financial Officer for Baltimore City Schools. Mr. Walker will provide an overview of the proposed 2019-2020 City Schools budget.

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Education: K-12

The Associated's 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting

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06/17/2020

On June 17, The Associated held their first, virtual Annual Meeting. Hundreds of community members joined us on Facebook and YouTube as they recounted their 100-year history and reflected on their accomplishments during this past year.

Talking Shop about Learning with GEO Conference Participants

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM

In June more than 150 philanthropic leaders, including Maryland Philanthropy Network members, will participate in the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Learning Conference in Baltimore

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Pitfalls in Paying for College: Confronting Scholarship Award Displacement in Maryland

Monday, November 27, 2017 at 02:00 to 03:00 PM

The Woodside Foundation and the Caplis Family Fund invite grantmakers who manage or fund private scholarship programs, to be aware of the practice of scholarship award displacement.

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Behavioral Health Funders: Legislative Wrap Up

Tuesday, May 02, 2017 at 03:00 to 04:30 PM

Please join the Behavioral Health Funders Group where we will hear from Ann Ciekot from National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence; Adrienne Breidenstine and Stacey Jefferson from Behavioral Health System Baltimore; an

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Focus on City Schools: A Budget Conversation with John Walker

Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM

Baltimore City Schools face a $130 million deficit and potentially 1,000 school-based layoffs. In January 2017, John Walker was appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer for the school district.

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Education

Focus on City Schools: The Legislative Focus for 2017 and Beyond

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 09:30 to 11:00 AM

In October, 2016, Melissa Broome was appointed as the Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs for Baltimore City Public Schools.

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Seniors & Housing Collaborative

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Education

United Way of Central Maryland Helping People Avoid Eviction

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07/04/2021

Seniors & Housing Collaborative Emergency Response Workgroup Meeting

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 10:00 to 11:30 AM

The Seniors & Housing Collaborative Emergency Response Workgroup is committed to creating connections and partnerships between both Baltimore City / State agencies and community-based organizations to respond more effectively

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Committee Meeting

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Emergency Assistance

Older Adults

Seniors & Housing Collaborative Emergency Response Workgroup Meeting - March 2023

Monday, March 20, 2023 at 03:00 to 04:30 PM

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Committee Meeting

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Seniors & Housing Collaborative

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Emergency Assistance

Older Adults

Focus on City Schools: Equity-Centered Pipeline Initiative with Dr. Tracey L. Durant

Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 10:00 to 11:00 AM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network's Education Funders Affinity Group for an informational program about the exciting work at Baltimore City Public Schools around the principal pipeline. Dr. Tracey Durant, Executive Director of City Schools Equity Office, will share an overview of their equity-centered pipeline work, priorities for City Schools connected to their successes and strategies to reimagine this work at City Schools, and how this work builds on philanthropic accomplishments along with other successes that helped to position City Schools for this current opportunity with their principal pipeline development. Dr. Durant will be joined by her City Schools team.

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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Education

Focus on City Schools: Secondary Success and Innovation, Career and Technical Education

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 11:00 to 12:00 PM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network as Eric Jefferson, Executive Director of Secondary Success and Innovation for Baltimore City Public Schools, provides an overview of City Schools’ strategies around Secondary Success and Innovation, particularly the current state of Career and Technical Education programs.

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Workforce Development Funders

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Children's and Youth Services

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Education: Middle School - High School

Employment/Workforce development

Our Strategic Frame

Maryland Philanthropy Network's Strategic Frame was a labor of love comprising the work of our board and staff and the feedback of the dynamic community of funders that makes MPN possible. As a membership organization, we rely on our members not just for the vibrancy they bring to our community, but also to hold us accountable to the strategy we set forth. We encourage you to read through the entire Strategic Frame including our updated mission, vision, and north star.

Shifting Power through Participatory Grantmaking

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 01:30 to 04:30 PM

Are you interested in participatory grantmaking but don’t know where to start? Are you curious about giving the communities you serve decision-making power?

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Influential Marylander 2020 Profile | Celeste Amato

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05/07/2020

As president of the Maryland Philanthropy Network, a statewide, Baltimore-based association that represents some 130 organizations, Celeste Amato helps manage some $9 billion in charitable assets.

Practitioner/Funder Conversation: Aligning Math and Literacy Programs with Workforce Development

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 12:00 to 03:30 PM

Low math and literacy skills disqualify many men and women from training programs that provide occupational skills needed to acquire family sustaining employment.

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Workforce Development Funders

B’More Invested and Beyond

Friday, June 11, 2021 at 09:00 to 10:30 AM

Back in October 2020, we heard from the Open Society Institute – Baltimore and Baltimore’s Pr

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Community Development/Neighborhoods

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COVID-19

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Statewide Perspectives on Community Schools: Part 2 – Intermediaries

Tuesday, December 07, 2021 at 02:00 to 03:30 PM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network for the second of a three-part series on community schools. Part II will focus on Intermediaries and the role they play in facilitating the implementation of Community Schools. We will be joined by the following community school leaders: Chief Tina Hike-Hubbard of Baltimore City Schools,; Khalilah Slater Harrington, Chief Program Officer, Family League of Baltimore; and Dr. Ingrid Williams-Horton, Director of Community Schools, Prince George’s County Public Schools.

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Families and Children

Member Sponsored Briefing: City Dibs: A Model for Community Driven Development

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 09:00 to 10:30 AM

All funders interested in community development, workforce development, affordable housing and the creative arts are welcome to attend this briefing. Part presentation, part workshop, this briefing will lift up a new model for community growth; one that increases the impact for low- and moderate-income families while bringing vital services back into historically marginalized neighborhoods.

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Member Sponsored Briefing

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All Funders