The Annie E. Casey Foundation has announced a $3 million impact investment in the Renter Wealth Creation Fund, which aims to preserve affordable housing while helping renters build assets and savings.
From flexible giving to well-managed tech tools, the new generation of donors are changing up the old models of charitable giving.
Construction is already underway on the 700 block of Mura Street in East Baltimore.
The 2025 Baltimore City Small Business Advancement Conference, hosted by the Mayor’s Office of Small and Minority Business Advocacy and Development, took place at the Baltimore Convention Center on June 12.
Join Maryland Philanthropy Network for the Baltimore Vacants Workgroup meeting to discuss Reinvest Baltimore,
Join Maryland Philanthropy Network's Education Funders Affinity Group for a conversation with Carey M. Wright, Ed.D., State Superintendent of Schools. This will be an opportunity to hear an update from Dr. Wright about education in Maryland and upcoming plans and priorities for the coming years.
It could not be clearer in those moments how firmly engrained white supremacy is in all the structures of our nation. The response from law enforcement at the Capitol was unrecognizable from the over-policing that occurs in many of the communities we serve and represent. The upswell of white supremacists came from across our country and from nearly every community. We at Maryland Philanthropy Network stand with our colleagues and leaders across the country in calling for change. Our communities and our future depend on it.
This year, the bikes bore the Columbia based nonprofit the Horizon Foundation’s logo as the program’s “title sponsor.” Horizon Foundation’s funding will continue, but its time as title sponsor will end in the fall, according to Ayotte.
In the 2021-22 school year, only one in three fourth graders in the United States was reading at grade level, only one in four eighth graders was proficient in math, and rates of chronic absence had skyrocketed.
2025 is a big year for long-time Baltimore resident Chrissy Thornton. She’s turning 50, and the organization she’s led for more than two years turns 40.
A message to the Maryland Philanthropy Network membership from our President and CEO Danista E. Hunte.
The Benefits of Giving: Why we do what we do as Blacks in Philanthropy by Beverly Cooper
Charitable giving in the U.S. topped $400 billion in 2017. And more than half of American households give annually—more than vote in presidential elections.
I’ve spent a lot of time these past few weeks sitting at my dining room table staring blankly at my computer and wondering “what matters” in the coronavirus era?
Join us for a conversation with Laura Weeldreyer, Executive Director of Maryland Family Network, and some of our region’s child care providers to shed light on how national predictions are playing out in Maryland. Participants will learn how to support the safe, responsible re-opening of child care across the state, as well as how we rebuild a stronger and more sustainable industry made for all children and their caregivers.

