The Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County (CFAAC) established the Community Crisis Response Fund in 2018 to provide flexible financial a
David Gilmore, deputy chief investment officer of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc., Owings Mills, Md., will assume the role of chief investment officer effective Sept. 1, said a news release Monday.
Over the course of this decade, two economic downturns translated into a significant rise in poverty, across the country.
In a December, 2009 Maryland Philanthropy Network program, the Nation
Literacy remains one of the priority areas for the current administration for Baltimore City Schools. Ms. Janise Lane will return to present the latest Baltimore City Schools’ Literacy Plan for the 2017-2018 school year.
You are invited to join your colleagues for an informal get together to talk shop, tips and anything else! All Maryland Philanthropy Network member communicators are welcome.
Exelon Corp.'s nonprofit foundation is launching a $10 million fund to invest in startups in six cities including Baltimore that are working on new technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change.
T. Rowe Price Group Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW) didn't need the 3,000-square foot space in its downtown Baltimore headquarters any longer for the investment center that served the company for years.
Cat memes won't be enough to keep us sane as we approach nearly a week of social distancing to keep the coronavirus — already spreading fast in Maryland — from infecting more citizens.
The Weinberg Foundation welcomes Darius Graham as the Foundation’s newest program director.
Michael Sarbanes, Baltimore City Schools' Executive Director of Partnerships, Communications and Community Engagement, will join us for our monthly meeting to discuss opportunities for and the status of partnerships between the philanthropic commu
Join us for an update on Baltimore City Schools facilities. Learn more about infrastructure problems that exist, the funding mechanisms that exacerbate the problem and the steps City Schools is taking to proactively address facility challenges and buildings with alternative financing mechanisms.
Join us on December 13th to hear from Cheryl Knott of the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (BNIA) as they overlay data as it relates to School Centered Neighborhood Investment (SCNI) and student outcomes for Baltimore City children.
Construction on 21st Century School Buildings is well underway with two completed schools, Fort Worthington Elementary/Middle School and Frederick Elementary School, and seven more currently in process. The Maryland Philanthropy Network team of consultant and member leaders will share an update on these efforts, future plans and opportunities as we enter 2018.
The Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program became available to applicants beginning with the 2019-2020 academic year.
From the top floor of Hotel Revival, I marveled at a sunny 360-degree view of Baltimore. Directly south along the water I could see Port Covington, a former industrial area being redeveloped into a new metro ecosystem.
Youth Grantmakers (YG) is a permanent, youth-led grantmaking body through which private and public youth-serving resources can flow. Baltimore’s Promise serves as the organizational home for this initiative working with local Funders and youth themselves to create a pooled grantmaking model. This intergenerational, grantmaking model has been developed in partnership with older youth from Baltimore City ages 16-24 as the inaugural cohort of YGs.
According to the Baltimore City Youth Opportunities Landscape, only 9% of youth opportunities are available to youth ages 16-24 who have graduated high school or are not in school or working. Therefore, in response to the overwhelming need for more opportunities, this first cycle of grantmaking distributed $525,000 in resources to support 10 youth-serving organizations providing economic opportunity and mobility programming for Baltimore City older youth ages 16-24.
Our hearts continue to go out to the families impacted by the tragic midair collision on January 29 that claimed the lives of all 67 passengers, service members, and crew.
I am proud to report that the National Civic League has named Baltimore an All-America City to recognize the Baltimore Campaign for Grade-Level Reading as an outstanding example of community problem solving, civic engagement and collabora

