The behind the scenes orchestration of managing and administering grants is often as varied as the grantmaking organizations themselves.
One of the greatest values of Maryland Philanthropy Network membership is colleagues you meet and the relationships you build with them.
For 24-hours on Tuesday, Washington County Gives wanted to break their record of donations given to nonprofits.
Moving the Needle. Changing Systems. Giving Collaboratives. Impact Investing. Being able to see the impact of giving is a priority for this next generation of donors.
The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) has recently updated its definition of philanthropic effectiveness with input from its staff, board, and community, to share with the sector. CEP believes that effectiveness requires the
Join Maryland Philanthropy Network and the T. Rowe Price Foundation for this 90-minute virtual session that will provide an introduction to gathering, interpreting, and acting on feedback from those at the heart of your work and an overview of why listening and acting on feedback is important to ethical, equitable, and well-run organizations.
Maryland Philanthropy Network invites you to join us for networking fun at our Ice Cream Social. This will be a lightly structured opportunity to meet, build relationships with colleagues and MPN staff, and unwind. MPN will provide a build your own sundae station with selections from our neighbors at The Charmery, so bring your sweet tooth.
Join other education funders for a peer-to-peer exchange that will focus on grantmaking for summer learning. We encourage you to bring your burning questions, strategic ponderings, or interesting projects to raise with the group. Then, from 4:00 – 5:00PM, we’ll continue conversation and relationship building at UNION Craft Brewing.
Convened by MPN’s Funders Together to End Homelessness – Baltimore, all funders interested in housing justice and homelessness prevention are welcome to attend this huddle! Lightly structured as a peer-to-peer exchange, we encourage you to bring your burning questions, strategic ponderings, or interesting projects to raise with the group. We’ll also ask for your ideas about learning and potential future collaboration.
Convened by Maryland Philanthropy Network’s Funders Together to End Homelessness – Baltimore, all funders interested in housing justice and homelessness preve
It’s time for Maryland Philanthropy Network’s peer learning exchange for education funders! This lightly structured peer-to-peer exchange will focus on your grantmaking in the current context. We encourage you to bring your burning questions, strategic ponderings, or interesting projects to raise with the group. From 4:00 – 5:00 PM, we’ll continue conversation and relationship building at UNION Craft Brewing.
It’s time for Maryland Philanthropy Network’s peer learning exchange for arts and culture funders! We’ll gather over a cuppa for a lightly structured peer-to-peer exchange. Plan to share information about your recent grantees, what you are learning from them and others, and any updates about your arts or arts adjacent funding strategies. Following up on April’s conversation about The Changing Landscape of Arts Funding, we’ll also share plans for upcoming sessions and collect group feedback.
The 2026 Maryland Nonprofits Legislative Preview will be co-hosted by Maryland Nonprofits and Maryland Philanthropy Network. The event will feature what nonprofits will be working on, how the legislature will function, how nonprofits can be effective advocates in the coming year, and how to access opportunities for their organization. During this virtual convening, you will hear from public officials and leading nonprofit advocates.
Attention all Maryland Philanthropy Network members funding in arts and culture! Please join us at this session where participants will share with one other their current focus areas, some grant information and questions/struggles. Together we will plan learning programs and other activities for the Arts Funders Affinity Group in 2018.
The Basic Human Needs Affinity Group seeks to raise awareness about critical human service needs, to share information about new and current strategies to keep vulnerable residents from falling into crisis, and to foster the coordination of servic
Since July 2015, Kevin Davis has served as Police Commissioner for Baltimore City.
Baltimore Integration Partnership stakeholders gathered last week with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake at the Chesapeake Restaurant to celebrate all the work and accomplishments that have moved forward over the last three years.
Words have power. Too often today, they are being used to tear us down and apart, making us feel helpless and defenseless. Alternatively, words can build us up, strengthen us and give us the ability to move forward together, constructively.
Attention all Maryland Philanthropy Network members funding in arts and culture!
Maryland lawmakers passed a sweeping education package in the latest General Assembly session and recently identified a work group whose task will be to find a way to pay for it.

