A Qualified Charitable Distribution (“QCD”) is a useful tool if you’ve reached the age of 70 ½ and want to give to a designated, field-of-interest, scholarship, or unrestricted fund at The Community Foundation of Frederick County.
With more than 1,430 foundations in Maryland and a growing landscape of corporate funders, donor-advised funds, giving circles, and public charities, the first step to grant seeking is understanding the basic operations of organized giving.
Affordable housing is essential for healthy, thriving communities. It supports family stability and neighborhood well-being.
From feeding families to delivering critical care, nonprofits step up every day to protect and save lives in ways most of us never see.
Please join us for a member-sponsored briefing on the continuing role of Strong Schools Maryland in protecting the Blueprint’s promises to Maryland’s children and how you can get involved in investing in the long-term infrastructure of education a
The DMV is suffering an economic crisis eerily reminiscent of factories shuttering across the Midwest during the 1980s.
This program has been canceled.
Child poverty in the U.S. has surged, nearly tripling from 5% in 2021 to 13% in 2024. This dramatic increase follows the expiration of pandemic-era economic policies and rising prices that have strained family budgets nationwide. However, a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation underscores the profound impact of public policies and programs, demonstrating their capacity to cut child poverty in half.
For decades, service and conservation corps have connected young people to quality careers while helping vital industries fill critical workforce gaps.
Join members of the Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative on a visit to the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center in Frederick, MD to learn about opportunities to help entry level construction workers build careers in the maintenance and preservation of historic properties.
Our presenters will be YOU and your colleagues. We will have an open conversation to deepen our relationships and learn from each other's grantmaking experience in the community.
How do you engage city residents to volunteer to confront Baltimore's challenges and serve vulnerable people throughout the city? To help 60,000 Baltimoreans sustain recovery from drugs and alcohol abuse? To repurpose 14,000 vacant lots?
This program has been postponed. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Join us to learn about the Maryland Suspension Representation Project's work to reconnect students with school and needed supports, hear how this can improve school systems and reduce school push-out and racial disparities in discipline, and share your ideas for keeping students in school.
Supporting continuous learning is one of eight guiding principles shared by local philanthropy for the continued assurance of private philanthropic money for public good.
Join us for our February First Monday + Election Series Discussion where we will share insights and data points uncovered from the Funders' Committee for Civic Participation's (FCCP) first State Funding Survey.
Please join your colleagues as we wrap up our 2017 Impact Investing series, in partnership with Mission Investors Exchange.
This final workshop will be focused on measuring your impact!
We are now over two years removed from the death of Freddie Gray and the uprising that followed.
This is an opportunity for Maryland Philanthropy Network members to participate in the legislative session and learn about the legislative process first hand.
Initially released in October 2015, the BaltimoreLink Plan is a complete overhaul and rebranding of the core transit system operating within the city and throughout the greater Ba
