RESOURCE FOR MEMBERS ONLY
FIND MORE BY:
Resource type:
Topic:
Site Search
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 10:30 to 12:00 PM
Please join the Workforce Affinity Group to hear outcomes from this year’s legislative session. Our panel will share information about legislation that was passed and efforts that didn’t quite make it this year.
Event type:
Audience:
Topic:
Funding Area:
Financial Literacy & Asset Building Group: Briefing on Consumer Finance & the MD Legislative Session
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM
Are you curious what happened during Maryland’s legislative session for financial literacy and asset building? What’s the story on the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? What d
Event type:
Audience:
Funding Area:
Wednesday, January 09, 2019 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM
The 2019 Maryland General Assembly begins Wednesday, January 9, 2019! Some are calling the upcoming session "The Education Session!" In the coming weeks, the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education (aka Kirwan Commission) will release its final report and legislation will follow shortly thereafter. Join us for an Education Funders and Public Policy Committee Advocacy Action Discussion for 2019. During the discussion, we will share known updates for the Kirwan Commission and legislation as well as determine possible advocacy actions for grantmakers, both collectively or individually.
Event type:
Audience:
Topic:
Funding Area:
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 10:00 to 11:30 AM
As the District reopens schools, Maryland is also experiencing its first-ever virtual legislative session. Legislation around digital equity, childcare, and the overturn of the veto for the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future are critical for the future of Maryland’s children. Maryland Philanthropy Network is pleased to host Melissa Broome, Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs, for a conversation about City Schools’ legislative priorities for the 2021 state legislative session and the state plan around funding.
Event type:
Audience:
Funding Area:
Over 2 million people have been affected and over 200,000 people died as a result of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. 188,383 houses have been damaged or destroyed. Over 1.5 million displaced people living in 1,241 settlement sites. There are 4,758 schools that have been damaged or destroyed.*
The scale of destruction and need has resulted in quick and significant contributions pouring in to support relief efforts. The overwhelming success of the Text Haiti Campaign by the American Red Cross, which encourages people to donate $10 by texting "HAITI" through their cell phone,...
FIND MORE BY:
Resource type:
Topic:
Funding Area:
Audience:
Release Date:
08/17/2022
Between May 2020 to May 2021, Funders Together to End Homelessness (Funders Together) embarked on a strategic planning process in collaboration with Wayfinding Partners.
Release Date:
01/13/2022
When place-based funders from 12 regions across the country formed a learning group in 2020, chronicled in this five-part series, they shared practical, tactical steps to grapple with a range of thorny questions. When they turned to engaging stakeholders, the funders focused on three core challenges to building community partnerships.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 01:00 to 02:00 PM
Over the last two decades, waves of immigrants have made rural communities their homes. This shift, however, has not been easy, with some communities experiencing racist, anti-immigrant backlash. Join this webinar to learn from three organizers and movement builders about how they are fighting back against discrimination and the exploitation of immigrant communities while building immigrant and worker power in rural areas.
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees is hosting this program in partnership with Maryland Philanthropy Network, Forefront, SoCal Grantmakers, and Neighborhood Funders Group - Integrated Rural Strategies Group and Midwest Organizing Infrastructure Funders.
Event type:
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 12:00 to 01:00 PM
We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of wealth from one generation to the next.
Event type:
Funding Area:
Monday, March 20, 2017 at 12:00 to 12:00 AM
Foundations on the Hill (FOTH) is hosted by the Forum of Regional Maryland Philanthropy Networks of Grantmakers, in partnership with the Alliance for Charitable Reform and Council on Foundations.
RESOURCE FOR MEMBERS ONLY
View materials from State of the Sector: What Nonprofits Need from their Relationship with Funders.
FIND MORE BY:
Resource type:
Funding Area:
Audience:
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 03:30 to 05:00 PM
Maryland Philanthropy Network members work to improve health outcomes for Marylanders through strategic investments in the context of a seven billion dollars annual state budget for public health. On May 26, welcome back Dr. Joshua M.
Event type:
Audience:
Topic:
Funding Area:
Release Date:
01/22/2018
The Horizon Foundation has announced three new members to its board of trustees: Jonathan Ilsong Ahn, Esq., an attorney and Korean American community leader; Catherine Hamel, president of Gilchrist Hospice Care; and Brian Hepburn, MD, executive director of the National Maryland Philanthropy Network of State Mental Health Program Directors.
Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 03:00 to 04:30 PM
Please join the Health Funders and Public Policy Committee for a wrap-up from this year’s legislative session.
Event type:
Audience:
Topic:
Funding Area:
Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:00 to 03:30 PM
Please note: this session is now fully virtual.
Please join Maryland Philanthropy Network’s Green Funders Affinity Group for a legislative debrief of the 2025 Maryland General Assembly session. Josh Tulkin from the Maryland Chapter of Sierra Club, Kim Coble from Maryland League of Conservation Voters, Emily Scarr from the Maryland Public Interest Research Group (MaryPIRG), and Emily Ranson from Clean Water Action will share their perspectives on the implementation and lessons learned from recent legislation, offering a glimpse into the legislative progress and challenges expected in the future.
Event type:
Audience:
Topic:
Funding Area:
This report explores food procurement processes in state and private higher educational institutions in Baltimore and identifies a range of strategies to more fully realize local purchasing power. The report recommends actions to support local minority business enterprises and small businesses, modifications to procurement processes, and outlines legislative opportunities to connect state agency and institutional purchasing power to businesses in targeted reinvestment areas. Many of the recommendations are applicable not just to food but other services and commodities as well.
Wednesday, March 06, 2024 at 02:30 to 04:00 PM
Join Maryland Philanthropy Network for our next State of the Sector Workgroup meeting where we will discuss tools to better understand the organizational health needs of nonprofits.
Event type:
Audience:
Topic:
Funding Area:
Both locally and across the country intentional collaborations among funders increase the impact of philanthropy by connecting the knowledge and expertise of diverse funders with a wide range of funding interests.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 08:30 to 09:30 AM
Since 2006, Ted Talks have been viewed 290 million times online.
Event type:
Audience: