Join your peers in the region for a jointly sponsored program between philanthropy-serving organizations about the role private and public foundations can play in advocacy as individual foundations or with your grantees.
How can funders align with Baltimore City Public Schools at this moment? How can our network support Tina and her team?
Across our field, in politics, in business, and in our communities, Americans are questioning the very nature of philanthropy and probing its core value.
This Bainum Brief highlights 10 ways foundations can engage in policy advocacy, with examples from many funders, including the Bainum Family Foundation, across an array of topics. It also provides lessons learned to make the best use of scarce resources and maximize the chances of success.
Join Maryland Philanthropy Network's Education Funders Affinity Group for a program with the Fund for Educational Excellence to learn about their new report on teacher retention.
Lauren Smith’s opinion article, How to Help the Most Vulnerable Through the Pandemic, made an important point about a focus on equity in philanthropy’s r
This is a time of change for philanthropy, especially related to how we deploy our resources to best meet urgent and emergent needs of our communities.
In 2023, Mayor Brandon Scott, BUILD, and the Greater Baltimore Committee formed an agreement to end the crisis of vacant and abandoned properties in Baltimore City over the next 15 years. This partnership is committed to a “whole blocks” approach that will leverage an estimated $3 billion in public investment — including $300 million in private and philanthropic contributions — to bring an additional $5 billion in private investments to neighborhoods across Baltimore. We invite business and philanthropic leaders to a briefing about this strategy. The session will highlight specific areas where expertise and resources from the business and philanthropic communities can support a historic public-private partnership to eliminate vacant housing and build safe, stable neighborhoods where all city residents can thrive.
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Program resources for Transforming Baltimore into a Trauma Responsive City
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View materials from Health Services Cost Review Commission on Community Supported Programs and Reporting.
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View materials from "Innovations in Apprenticeship and Paid Work Experience"
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Please join the Passano Foundation for a member sponsored briefing on the Pride of Baltimore II. On February 27, 1977, the first Pride of Baltimore was launched.
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View material from "Home Health Workers: Quality Eldercare Care and Quality Jobs go Hand in Hand"
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Please join the Maryland Philanthropy Network staff and nonprofit and funder colleagues for a coffee and donut celebration on June 29 from 8:30-10:00 am. Drop in Open Works for Greenmount Coffee Lab's refreshments and good conversation about how to build connections in our sector.
Please join us in person for a luncheon session with Sarah Neville-Morgan, Maryland's new Assistant State Superintendent for the Division of Early Childhood at the Maryland State Department of Education. Our time together will offer an opportunity to be in dialogue about her vision, plans and priorities and to learn how funders can be involved. Participants will have time for informal networking over lunch.
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View materials from "Shifting Power through Participatory Grantmaking".
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On busy Route 1 in Howard County, most bus stops consist of a roadside pole stuck in the ground. But a stop outside a CVS in Elkridge, Md., has a new bus shelter — with a dazzling twist.
A message to the Maryland Philanthropy Network membership from our President and CEO Danista E. Hunte.
