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Virtual Brown Bag: Post-Election Conversation for Funders

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 12:00 to 01:00 PM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network for an informal opportunity to discuss the 2024 General Election. This will be a chance to connect with peers to share reflections on what is top of mind for funders and the communities they serve. This dialogue will help inform how MPN approaches state and regional policy conversations. We hope to gain insights on how Maryland funders are thinking about the affect of the political environment on their work.

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Community Issues

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Members Only

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Public Policy

Maryland Philanthropy Network 2025 Group Leaders Meeting

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 02:30 to 04:30 PM

This is the annual meeting of Maryland Philanthropy Network leaders (staff, chairs, and steering committee members) of affinity groups and collaboratives.

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Celebrating Three Decades of Giving: Q&A with Founders of the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation

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04/25/2025

The Brown Family Foundation, established 30 years ago through the Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF), provides small grants to many Baltimore-based nonprofit organizations focused on education, health disparitie

Lisa Lawson Explores the Neuroscience of Adolescence in ‘Thrive’

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09/15/2025

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is perhaps best known for its work helping America’s youth. Lisa Lawson, the president and CEO, has done extensive research into the development of teenagers.

Meet Harriette Wienner and Jason Reitberger, Co-Chairs for The Associated’s New Center for Countering Antisemitism and Hate

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11/10/2025

Earlier this year, The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore launched its new Center for Countering Antisemitism and Hate.

‘Our Children Are Watching': Nonprofit and Foundation Leaders Respond to Capitol Hill Violence

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01/07/2021

In the wake of the attack on the Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, 2021,n prominent nonprofit leaders issued statements and comments. The Chronicle of Philanthropy is collecting and actively updating a list of these statements.

Invest-in Baltimore: 2021 Baltimore Community Foundation Annual Report

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08/05/2022

Two years ago, the pandemic was an emergent, novel crisis. Last year, it was “the new normal,” but the Baltimore Community Foundation’s response and that of its fundholders, donors and partners remained fiercely urgent.

Meeting Resources from Master Plan for Aging Workgroup Kick-Off Meeting

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View materials from Master Plan for Aging Workgroup Kick-Off Meeting.

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Aging

Older Adults

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Aging/Older Adults Funders

Member Sponsored Briefing: Evaluating a Community-Led, Place-Based Collaborative for Health

Monday, December 08, 2025 at 01:00 to 02:30 PM

Members of Maryland Philanthropy Network are invited to participate in a roundtable discussion focused on a community-led, place-based strategy implemented i

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Member Sponsored Briefing

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All Funders

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Nonprofits

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Community Development/Neighborhoods

Food/Food Systems

Health Access and Care

Executive Summary from the COVID-19 Impact on Older Adults Response and Coordination Call – No. 1

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Older Adults

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Aging/Older Adults Funders

Implications of the Climate Solutions Now Act for Philanthropy

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 09:00 to 10:30 AM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network's Green Funders Affinity Group for a discussion with Michael Powell, Esq., Member of Gordon Feinblatt’s Energy & Environmental Practice Group, member of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change, and Co-Chair of the Mitigation Working Group, which is developing plans to meet Maryland’s greenhouse gas targets. The Climate Solutions Now Act and other new climate statutes, regulations, and programs will have profound impacts on philanthropic programs. Join us to discuss what these changes may entail for philanthropy and our support to nonprofits across Maryland. This session will include a short presentation and ample time for discussion.

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Environment/Sustainability

Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation CEO on How to End The Culture of Sexual Harassment

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12/07/2017

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.

Member Sponsored Briefing: inFusion Community Grants Program

Monday, May 13, 2019 at 02:00 to 03:30 PM

Participatory grantmaking is helping to restore residential power in the C.A.R.E., McElderry Park and Middle East communities of East Baltimore. Please join us for an introduction to the inFusion Community Grants Program, an Annie E.

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Member Sponsored Briefing

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All Funders

Community Investment Funders

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Family Foundation

POSTPONED | Corporate Roundtable: Investment Connection

Friday, October 11, 2019 at 09:00 to 10:30 AM

This program has been POSTPONED and will be rescheduled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Grantmaking Practice

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Corporate Funders

Members Only

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Public/Private Partnership

Philanthropists Bench Women of Color, the M.V.P.s of Social Change

Release Date:

11/19/2019

November begins the peak season for charitable giving in the United States. Over the next several months, donors and foundations will allocate billions of dollars to progressive causes.

Trust-Based Philanthropy: Imagining better, more effective partnerships between funders and nonprofits

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01/27/2020

Our sector’s addiction to intellectualizing, equivocating, risk-avoiding, and time-wasting is lethal, and there are few places where this is more present than within philanthropy.

National Alliance on Mental Illness Workshop: In Our Own Voice

Friday, April 29, 2022 at 09:00 to 10:30 AM

Maryland Philanthropy Network is pleased to host this In Our Own Voice workshop, in partnership with the Baltimore affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to understand the experience of mental health issues from people with lived experience. NAMI Metropolitan Baltimore’s In Our Own Voice aims to change attitudes, assumptions, and stereotypes by describing the reality of living with mental illness. People with mental health conditions share their powerful personal stories in this presentation. We will be joined in this session by Kerry Graves, Executive Director of NAMI Metropolitan Baltimore.

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Community Issues

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All Funders

Behavioral Health Funders

Health Funders

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Behavioral Health

Health Access and Care

New Book Makes a Clear-Eyed Case for Participatory Grantmaking

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01/13/2025

A new book titled “Participatory Grantmaking in Philanthropy: How Democratizing Decision-Making Shifts Power to Communities,” includes trenchant analysis, case studies penned by leaders at participatory grantmaking practitioners, and evidence-based approaches in areas ranging from climate justice to disability rights.

Women’s Giving Circle of Harford County Awards more than $61,000 in grants

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07/01/2025

The Women’s Giving Circle of Harford County awarded $61,448 in grants to 14 nonprofits in the county.

Community Foundation awards more than $50K to organizations to battle COVID-19

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04/22/2020

The Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County (CFAAC) established the Community Crisis Response Fund in 2018 to provide flexible financial a

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