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06/11/2025
If it were about the money, Erica Watkins probably would've thrown in the towel a while ago. But keeping this restaurant open is about her passion - for cooking, and for her customers.
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07/31/2025
Is there room for another entity to grapple with anti-Israel, anti-Jewish hate on the U.S. East Coast? The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore thinks so.
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11/10/2025
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore (CFES) and the Richard A.
Thursday, May 05, 2022 at 09:30 to 11:00 AM
Please join our Green Funders Affinity Group to hear outcomes from this year’s Maryland General Assembly session.
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This report lays out a range of strategies that can help address Baltimore’s urgent need to do more to create new opportunities for the city’s large population of disconnected youth.
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04/22/2025
The Baltimore Community Foundation’s $1.2 Million Donation Will Directly Support Victims’ Families and Survivors
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10/07/2025
Listen first. Find unlikely allies. Point to the helpers.
Program Resources for Focus on City Schools: A Conversation with Chief of Staff Alison Perkins-Cohen
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01/07/2020
Eric Ward, who is African American, is an expert on white nationalism. He worked in foundations for seven years, including a three-year stint as a program officer at the Ford Foundation.
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07/17/2020
In April, Exponent Philanthropy and PEAK Grantmaking each fielded a survey to see how their respective communities of funders were responding to the impact of COVID-19 on their communities, grantees, and internal
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08/18/2021
Supported by the Horizon Foundation, United Way of Central Maryland, Women’s Giving Circle and Community Foundation of Howard County, the biennial Changemaker Challenge encourages
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
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07/02/2021
The Chesapeake Bay Trust announced a $65,000 Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns grant to the City of Annapolis for the design and construction of much-needed improvements to Hawkins Cove in Eastport.
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01/02/2025
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.
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09/05/2025
This resource from the Annie E. Casey Foundation explores strategies aimed at helping young parents succeed in college.
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How has place-based family philanthropy evolved over time? Rather than look first to comparing the contrasting decisions—why a place or issue basis for giving—this study is designed to examine how family foundations and funds committed to place are sustaining (or not sustaining) that commitment over generations.
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03/03/2021
The global reach of Covid and its staying power both as a killer disease and an economic menace attracted a philanthropic response of $20.2 billion last year, more than double the amount given to the previous top 10 disasters combined, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday. For many nonprofit leaders, however, the true measure of philanthropy’s response to both the pandemic and the racial-justice uprisings that followed the killing of George Floyd in May will be in whether foundations and other donors continue the less restrictive approaches to grant making they adopted during the pandemic’s early weeks.
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01/04/2022
Even the best-intentioned philanthropies can’t support what they don’t see.