When looking at our issue advocacy strategies, how can we strengthen our understanding of evolving concepts like ballot initiatives, organizing, and direct action that together advance this work for the long term?
The 2023 Legislative Session in Maryland will address major issues affecting nonprofits and the people and communities we serve, including the funding of education, the impact of federal policies on Maryland’s government services, and protection of health and the environment. Join Maryland Philanthropy Network and Maryland Nonprofits for this informational program to learn what other funders will be working on, policy issues affecting nonprofits, how the legislature will function, and the state budget.
In the past year, 16 states and tribes have revised their foster care licensing requirements to improve support for kinship caregivers and the children placed with them.
Robert C. Embry Jr. is best known in Maryland as the longtime president of the Abell Foundation, where he has been fighting to improve the lives of all state residents, especially the disenfranchised, since 1987.
When population vulnerability coincides with a pattern of pollution exposure, we call it environmental injustice. How do we objectively identify such cases?
Amid a complex climate for charitable giving, American individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations gave an estimated $427.71 billion to U.S.
The Community Foundation of Washington County MD, Inc. is seeking nominations for its 20th annual People’s Choice Awards.
Childhood hunger was a problem in Maryland long before the coronavirus pandemic hit, and it’s no secret that the ongoing economic crisis has made the situation much more dire for many families.
The Surdna Foundation announced today a nearly $13 million commitment to support artists of color working to advance racial justice within their local communities.
Please join your fellow Rising Leaders for a lunch and learn together. This is a bring your ideas, thoughts and your own lunch, as we discuss accountability in philanthropy.
One of the greatest values of Maryland Philanthropy Network membership is colleagues you meet and the relationships you build with them.
The Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County (CFAAC) established the Community Crisis Response Fund in 2018 to provide flexible financial a
Coastal Hospice has been awarded a $2,ooo dollar Emergency Response Grant for Personal Protection Equipment.
Maryland’s chief provider of grants to groups offering free legal aid to low-income residents faces a nearly $7 million pandemic-driven shortfall, the executive director of the Maryland Legal Services Corp. said Thursday.
Join your peers at Maryland Philanthropy Network for a virtual networking session. This will be a semi-structured opportunity to meet new colleagues or get to know peers a little more. Our virtual speed networking will primarily be 1:1 breakouts. We will have some prompts but feel free to let the conversation flow.
No fooling! We’re holding an in-person networking event!
Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, co-founder of the Mizrahi Family Charitable Fund, recently penned a guest commentary published in Maryland Matters advocating for the passage of the Responding to Emergency Needs
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The Greater Washington Community Foundation announced it will dedicate $50,000 in funding for emergency cash and food relief for local workers, contractors and small business owners impacted by the partial Federal Government shutdown.
Seeking ways to maximize the social and economic returns of their place-based impact investments, foundations, CDFIs, private investors, and others are turning to collaboration.
