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Release Date: 
01/24/2013

When I began my work as Director of Community Affairs for The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation in 2010, I knew that I had much to learn as I transitioned from 30-plus years as a broadcast journalist. For all that time, I had been part of the audience for public relations and marketing folk.

A Roadmap for Anchor Institution Local Food Purchasing in Baltimore

Realizing the purchasing power of anchor institutions to support local businesses and in turn create jobs is the focus of this new report, Authored by Karp Resources, the report explores food procurement processes in anchor institutions, and identifies a range of strategies to more fully realize local purchasing power. The report recommends actions to support local minority-owned and small businesses, modifications to procurement processes, and outlines legislative opportunities to connect purchasing power to businesses in reinvestment areas. Many of the recommendations are applicable not...

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Resource type: 
Report
Topic: 
Baltimore Integration Partnership
Ten Essential Questions for Philanthropic Grant-Making, Policies, and Practices

CHANGING THE FUTURE

Stepping Toward Equity…

In recent years, foundations and other funding institutions across the nation have turned their attention to the concept of incorporating a “DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion),” “REI  Racial Equity and Inclusion),” “REEI (Racial and Ethnic Equity and Inclusion),” or “Healing and Reconciliation” Lens in their grantmaking processes.

Not discussed as often is the analytical frame that undergirds these marketing terms; the “change” the institutional funding entity is trying to address: expanding “diversity” — a more...

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Resource type: 
Publication
Topic: 
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Grantmaking Strategy & Tools
Audience: 
All Funders
Rural Philanthropy Day on the Eastern Shore – Bridging towards Hope, Unearthing Opportunity
Tuesday, August 01, 2023 at 09:00 to 03:00 PM

Please join Maryland Philanthropy Network, in partnership with the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, for an exciting day of learning and networking with fellow philanthropic leaders. The day will begin with an excursion through a portion of the Underground Railroad, including a tour of the Harriet Tubman Museum. Participants will then enjoy lunch and an engaging conversation with local voices to talk about shared goals around both the racial and economic challenges facing rural Maryland and how philanthropy might respond.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Members Only
Topic: 
Black Philanthropy Month
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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