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Green Funders Peer Learning Exchange with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 01:00 to 02:30 PM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network for a peer learning exchange for environmental/sustainability funders. We’re pleased to be joined by Program Officer, Deborah Philbrick of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, who will speak with us about their Climate Solutions grantmaking. The goal of this “Big Bets” portfolio is to ensure that the Earth stays well below a two-degrees Celsius temperature increase to avoid catastrophic global effects. Hear about how this international funder thinks about its approach, priorities, and what they are learning. We’ll then discuss trends and opportunities you and other funders are seeing. 

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
All Funders
Green Funders
Funding Area: 
Environment/Sustainability
CLLCTIVLY And Maryland Nonprofits Build Resiliency Of Youth Service Providers
Release Date: 
01/26/2023

The Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (BCYF) awarded CLLCTIVLY and Maryland Nonprofits $150,000 to pilot the CONNECT program. CONNECT is a nine-month cohort of ten organizations focused on deepening relationships and collaboration among nonprofits to improve organizational sustainability, increase fundraising, and move towards a liberatory framework for serving young people in Baltimore City.

Code Red for Humanity: Leadership & Actions around Climate Change in Maryland
Wednesday, March 02, 2022 at 09:30 to 11:00 AM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network's Green Funders Affinity Group to learn more about two recent action-oriented reports on climate change efforts in Maryland. Participants will also have an opportunity to discuss with grantmaking colleagues what are they are doing and can do in the climate mitigation and climate justice space. Through the conversation, we’ll lift up issues for further learning and potential collaboration in the environmental grantmaking space.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Green Funders
Members Only
Funding Area: 
Environment/Sustainability
Green Funders Peer Learning Exchange
Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 01:00 to 02:30 PM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network for a peer learning exchange for funders supporting environmental and sustainability issues in Maryland! We take some time to integrate our learnings, share what we are thinking about and focusing on, and discuss our plans for the coming year. Lightly structured, these peer-to-peer exchange events are designed to integrate and learn from others in philanthropy through facilitation of the following: strategy sharing and exchange of ideas around what other funders are working on, stimulating new ways of thinking by sharing learnings and creating an environment conducive to discovery among the community of funders, and relationship building.

Event type: 
Network Building
Audience: 
Green Funders
Members Only
Members' Memo | June 26, 2024
Release Date: 
06/26/2024

A message to the Maryland Philanthropy Network membership from our President and CEO Danista E. Hunte.

Book Discussion of Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 02:30 to 04:00 PM

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Andre Perry, author of  Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities. Dr. Perry will be joined by Stephanie Smith, Baltimore City’s Assistant Director for Equity, Engagement and Communications and Maryland State Delegate, to discuss how government, corporate, non-profit, and philanthropic sectors in the Baltimore region could restore value to communities by adopting a new paradigm for determining and building value and wealth in Baltimore’s Black communities.  

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
All Funders
Members Only
Topic: 
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Funding Area: 
Community Development/Neighborhoods
Housing and Homelessness
The State of the Blueprint for Education 2025
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 09:30 to 11:00 AM

The State legislature was busy this session crafting a balanced budget and addressing revisions to the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future 10-year reform plan. Join Maryland Philanthropy Network’s Education Funders and Prenatal to Five Affinity Groups and Rachel Hise, Executive Director of the Maryland Department of Education’s Accountability and Implementation Board, to learn about recent legislative changes that impact the Blueprint and what they mean for implementation.  

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Education Funders
Prenatal to Five Affinity Group
Topic: 
Public Policy
Public/Private Partnership
Funding Area: 
Education
Program Resources from Understanding the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and Philanthropy’s Role in the Deployment of Funds to Disadvantaged Communities

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View program resources from Understanding the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and Philanthropy’s Role in the Deployment of Funds to Disadvantaged Communities.

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Program Resource
Topic: 
Public Policy
Public/Private Partnership
Funding Area: 
Environment/Sustainability
Audience: 
All Funders
Green Funders

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