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What Funders Need to Know about ARPA
Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 11:00 to 12:30 PM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network and our speakers for an overview of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to contextualize the ways funds are being disbursed, including the $350 billion in State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF). Drawing on ideas found in this Philanthropy News Digest article by Darius Graham of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, we’ll discuss how a greater understanding of priorities and processes in a community can help with allocating SLFRF in ways that inform grantmaking. We will conclude with a dynamic panel discussion with our partners on how funders can support nonprofits, provide community input about public dollars, and address any potential funding gaps.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
All Funders
Members Only
Policy Staff
Funding Area: 
Basic Human Needs
Social Sector
Advocacy
Like Learning A Language: Bringing the Voices Behind Baltimore’s Permitting and Grantmaking Systems into Conversation
Release Date: 
12/07/2022

The Morehead-Cain Scholarship at UNC at Chapel Hill has a Civic Collaboration Summer for rising sophomores, and five scholars were assigned to work with Maryland Philanthropy Network and the Middendorf Foundation. This study looks to explore both the permit and grant processes from the perspectives of nonprofit organizations, foundations, and the Baltimore City Government. By interviewing various stakeholders, the scholars gained insight and understood just how complex these processes were. All sides provided their experiences, which led the scholars to develop key takeaways and recommendations to create a more efficient system.

Justice Funding Lunch Discussion
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 12:00 to 01:00 PM

Advancing racial equity and supporting marginalized communities require intentional power shifting and the redistribution of wealth. Join the Rising Leaders for a brown bag discussion about strategies Maryland funders can use to promote systems of liberation in our communities.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Members Only
Rising Leaders
Topic: 
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Funding Area: 
Capacity Building
Economic Development
Issues in the Mental Well-Being of Older Adults: Cognitive & Behavioral Health Policy, Alzheimer’s Research, and Advocacy for Caregivers
Thursday, September 09, 2021 at 02:00 to 03:30 PM

Please join Maryland Philanthropy Network’s Health Funders and Aging Affinity Groups for our first program in a new Mental Health Series. This session will focus on the correlation of the significant increase in diagnosis of dementia felt within communities of color and chronic stress caused by determinants of health. Our guest speakers will also present on new drug therapies (including the controversial Aducnumab), current research, legislative recommendations for Maryland to develop a data-driven, multi-year plan to meet the cognitive and behavioral challenges of the elder boom.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Aging/Older Adults Funders
Behavioral Health Funders
Health Funders
Funding Area: 
Basic Human Needs
Aging
Behavioral Health
Health Access and Care
The Democracy of Justice: Our Liberation Is Bound Together
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 12:00 to 01:00 PM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network’s Emergent Philanthropy Roundtable, to discuss Darren Walker’s book From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth. This peer discussion will focus on chapters six through eight which address valuing both expertise and experience, standing up and speaking out, and include conversations with Ai-jen Poo, President of National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Ken Frazier, former CEO of the pharmaceutical company Merck. Bring your questions, your favorite quotes, or just a curious attitude!

Event type: 
Professional Development
Audience: 
Members Only
Topic: 
Grantmaking Strategy & Tools
Leadership Development
Building Community with Exponent Philanthropy
Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 10:00 to 11:30 AM

What is the essence of the Maryland funding community? Exponent Philanthropy, which includes all types of lean funders—those who practice philanthropy with few or no staff, is bringing its annual conference to Baltimore in October 2023 and wants to hear from you! Join Exponent Philanthropy’s new CEO Paul D. Daugherty for a conversation about our funding community – our interests, impact, and successes.

Event type: 
Network Building
Audience: 
Members Only
Topic: 
Conversations with Leaders
Climate Resiliency and Its Impact on Residents’ Health
Monday, December 02, 2024 at 01:30 to 03:00 PM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network's Health Funders Affinity Group and Green Funders Affinity Group as they host Ben Zaitchik, PhD, chair and professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, who will give an update on the promising work of the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative. Two years into a five-year, $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, Dr. Zaitchik and his team of researchers are aiming to create Baltimore as one of the world’s most climate resilient cities.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Green Funders
Health Funders
Members Only
Funding Area: 
Community Development/Neighborhoods
Disaster Preparedness
Environment/Sustainability
Health Access and Care
2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill

The oil spill disaster in the Gulf Coast is one of the most significant threats to the environment our country has faced in decades. It has the potential to devastate fragile coastal communities and ecosystems beyond repair, easily making it far worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989.

For more information or questions, please contact Elisabeth Hyleck, Director of Learning and Engagement.

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ABAG Resource Page
Topic: 
Grantmaking Strategy & Tools
Funding Area: 
Disaster Relief
Viewpoint: Child care merits greater investment
Release Date: 
12/04/2020

For months, as the Covid-19 pandemic continued and intensified, early care and education providers in the District and across the country wondered how they were going to survive.

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