In recent years, Baltimore City Schools has considerably expanded its choice offerings, including the creation of many new charter and transformation schools.
Senior home repair programs in Baltimore are growing and experimenting with new approaches to senior health and neighborhood revitalization.
High levels of unemployment, rising foreclosures and an uneven housing market continue to threaten the gains made in revitalizing many Baltimore neighborhoods.
Much of the funding that we do as grantmakers is based on the knowledge and expertise of the adults who educate our children, yet little is known about what students experience on a day-to-day basis.
Please join us on June 2nd to discuss how we can better support homeless children and youth through schools.
Baltimore’s Promise is launching a Career Readiness Demonstration Model in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED) and Baltimore City Schools.
This year, Baltimore City Public Schools faced a $130 million structural budget gap for School Year 17-18. The gap was predicted to grow by about $30 million each year unless addressed.
Civic Works' Baltimore Center for Green Careers has a new initiative underway!
Please join the Family League of Baltimore to receive updates and information about their comprehensive Management Information System.
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.
Since July 2015, Kevin Davis has served as Police Commissioner for Baltimore City.
Please join the Affinity Group on Aging as we hear from Drs.
Alison Perkins-Cohen was appointed to the Chief of Staff position by the Baltimore City School Board on July 1,2016, at the recommendation of Dr. Sonja Santelises. As Chief of Staff, Ms.
Join Baltimore's Promise Executive Director, Thomasina Hiers, for a general update. Learn about Baltimore's Promise's work to date, data gathered and findings.
Join us as Bob Cenname, Deputy Budget Director for the Baltimore Bureau of the Budget and Management Research, gives an overview of the City Budget, its structure and how Outcome Budgeting is driving decisions, providing fiscal oversight, and measuring priority outcomes for Baltimore.
In January 2011 the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health documented 640 unaccompanied homeless youth in Baltimore based upon a one day “census.” However, this is certainly an undercount as it is only
During Baltimore City Comptroller Bill Henry’s first few months in office, the policy and process challenges faced by nonprofits and fiscal partners doing business with the City are readily apparent and numerous. You are invited to join Celeste Amato, Chief of Staff of the Baltimore City Comptroller, for a conversation intended to build out the initial list of issues that the Comptroller’s office has identified as needing attention and to discuss the formation of a stakeholder group to continue engaging with the Comptroller’s office around issues, improvements, and to outline what a more ideal partnership could look like between local government and the nonprofit and fiscal partners.
Please join the Education Funders Affinity Group for our monthly meeting.
Education Funders are invited by Baltimore City Public Schools to a conversation on with the new Chief Academic Officer, Dr.
Rising 6th grade and 9th grade students in Baltimore City have the opportunity to apply to the middle and high schools of their choice. As a result of the pandemic and the movement toward a more equitable process, the school choice process this year has been adjusted. Join Maryland Philanthropy Network and our speakers Brandon Tilghman and Dominick Bivens from Baltimore City Public Schools who will walk us through the school choice process, highlighting recent changes and sharing plans for continued improvement.