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9 Baltimore groups to team up on vacant housing with $4M from JPMorgan Chase

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10/15/2024

Nine Baltimore nonprofits will receive a cut of a $4 million commitment from JPMorgan Chase to tackle the city’s vacant housing crisis and form a working group that meets regularly to share ideas.

France-Merrick Foundation 2024 Annual Report

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10/15/2024

The France-Merrick Foundation is pleased to share its 2024 Annual Report: Investing in Collaboration, Community, and Charm!

From the Desk Of Alex Echols, The Campbell Foundation

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05/27/2025

As part of the series of memos describing The Campbell Foundation’s different programs, Alex Echols, Program Strategist - Agriculture, shares a brief update on foundation’s approach to working wit

Baltimore City’s Opioid Restitution Fund and 911 Behavioral Health Diversion Pilot Updates

Friday, October 10, 2025 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM

Maryland Philanthropy Network’s Behavioral Health Workgroup is pleased to host J.D. Merrill, Deputy Chief of Staff and Philanthropic Partnership and Sara Whaley, Executive Director of Overdose Response with the Mayor's Office to share an update on the Opioid Restitution Advisory Board, funding priorities, and the status of the request for proposals that will be announced soon.

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Behavioral Health Funders

Health Funders

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Public/Private Partnership

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France-Merrick Foundation 2025 Annual Report

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10/28/2025

The France-Merrick Foundation is pleased to share its 2025 Annual Report!

Racial Equity Roundtable: Evaluating Grantmaking

Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 02:30 to 04:00 PM

Based on guidance from Maryland Philanthropy Network members, this peer exchange is designed for you to connect with fellow MPN members about their racial equity work, reflect on where your organization is in its journey, and unearth insights to take into your own work.

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Grantmaking Practice

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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Grants Managers/Administrators

Arts Funders Affinity Group

This peer group is focused on promoting and strengthening a dynamic arts scene in Maryland and engages and educates area funders about existing and emerging opportunities. Members interested in the arts and culture can build relationships with each other; share information; research and ideas; and learn together along with local and national experts.

Member Leadership: Lara Hall, Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation and Steven Skerritt-Davis, Maryland State Arts Council

Staff Contact: Elisabeth Hyleck

Grants Management Systems for Foundations: Demos and Tips

Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 11:30 to 12:45 PM

Maryland Philanthropy Network, in partnership with Maryland Nonprofits and Idealware, is pleased to offer a new course designed to save you time by providing you with the impartial information you need to accelerate your evaluation process of Grants Management software.

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Information Technology

Profile of Education Giving Full Report 2015

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The full 2015 Profile of Education Giving provides members with a clear picture of the scope of education-related grantmaking among our membership and helps members connect with colleagues who also care about specific education issues.

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Education

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Education Funders

Public Policy

Maryland Philanthropy Network seeks to grow and support our members capacity to engage in public policy.

WEBINAR: How to Bake-In Talent-Investing to Strengthen the Nonprofit Workforce

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 02:00 to 03:00 PM

Fund the People will help Maryland Philanthropy Network members better understand how to bake talent-investing, the intentional deployment of resources to support and develop nonprofit professionals and leaders, into their strategy and grantmaking

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Leadership Development

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Capacity Building

Nonprofit Infrastructure

Impact Investing: A Local Perspective on Tips, Tools and Lessons Learned

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 at 01:00 to 04:00 PM

Please join your colleagues to learn more about tips, tools and lessons learned in Impact Investing, as part of the Maryland Philanthropy Network and Mission Investors Exchange partnership series.

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Grantmaking Practice

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Impact Investing

Philanthropy + Social Innovation in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

Monday, September 26, 2016 at 06:00 to 08:00 PM

Awareness of the differing realities of Black and White Americans is at an all time high, but how do we move from awareness to action? While the pursuit of racial justice has garnered support from grassroots activists and foundations with multi-bi

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Network Building

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Focus On City Schools: The Fiscal Impact of Kirwan

Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 02:30 to 04:00 PM

In October 2019, members of the Kirwan Commission’s Funding Formula Workgroup briefed MPN members on their recommendations to the Co

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Community Issues

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Education Funders

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Focus on City Schools

Kirwan Commission

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Education

Funders Together to End Homelessness – Baltimore Meeting (05-01-2020)

Friday, May 01, 2020 at 09:00 to 10:00 AM

All funders interested in housing stability and homelessness are welcome to attend the meetings of Funders Together to End Homelessness – Baltimore.

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Committee Meeting

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Basic Human Needs Funders

Workforce Development Funders

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Member Sponsored Briefing

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Housing and Homelessness

Horizon Foundation Welcomes Kenitra Fokwa Kengne, Senior Program Officer

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05/06/2020

The Horizon Foundation is thrilled to welcome Kenitra Fokwa Kengne to our staff as a Senior Program Officer.

The Light House Increases Meals, Provides Housing Solutions with Support from Bank of America

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07/14/2020

As COVID-19 continues to challenge jobs throughout Maryland, The Light House is experiencing the ripple effect of unemployment in Anne Arundel County.

Baltimore pilot targets new way to build neighborhood trust with 10 hyper-local grants

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08/09/2021

M&T Bank and Weave: The Social Fabric Project, a program of the Aspen Institute, on Monday announced winners of the inaugural Weaver Awards celebrating and suppo

Member Sponsored Briefing: Youth Grantmakers Focus on Economic Mobility

Friday, April 14, 2023 at 01:30 to 03:00 PM

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.  

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