Protective films around bus drivers, temperature checks at schoolhouse doors, playgrounds marked with social distancing markers.
Maryland’s public health policy cuts across all sectors: housing, transportation, education, public works, planning, and community development, and renewed investment in public health is critical to ensure the strength and vitality of all of these sectors. Please join Maryland Philanthropy Network and our distinguished experts for a discussion on how we can collaborate and support a coordinated, equity-focused advocacy agenda to create change in the funding appropriations for public health infrastructure at the state and local levels.
Congress is back to work and, candidly, the nonprofit sector is nervous.
Over the course of a year, Philanthropy New York's Leadership Transitions Funders Group has engaged a group of NYC-based funders in building a community of practice. The goal has been to strengthen funder practices around supporting nonprofits going through leadership transitions and to more broadly address transition patterns or moments as they arise within the movements/fields we support.
What we’ve learned about funder behavior and funder practices transcends the space of supporting leadership transitions. In other words, adopting holistic funding practices and supporting organizational capacity strengthens the nonprofit sector, period.
Maryland Philanthropy Network members are invited to read, The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty Is Wrong, by Mauricio Lim Miller and join us for a discussion
In July, Sagamore Development Corporation and the South Baltimore Six (SB6) Coalition announced a long-term investment partnership and community benefits agreement.
Maryland Philanthropy Network Members consistently note the impact of housing affordability and stability on many other grantmaking issue areas.
You are invited to join your colleagues for an informal get together to talk shop, tips and anything else! All Maryland Philanthropy Network member communicators are welcome.
This 60-minute call is to discuss the role that the Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative can play over the next weeks/months during the COVID-19 crisis.
The use of nonprofit tax form the 990 to evaluate nonprofits' finances is becoming more and more widespread.
In the coming fiscal year, Baltimore City's Children and Youth Fund will have about $12 million to spend.
We are now over two years removed from the death of Freddie Gray and the uprising that followed.
As a result of the Ukraine invasion and increased sanctions, MPN is hearing from colleagues that several foundations are seeing an increase in unusual network activity and attempted breaches for their foundations and their nonprofit partners.
At this Maryland Philanthropy Network program, we will hear about the Sustainable Workforce Model from Laura Roberts of the Rockefeller Foundation and Liddy Romero of the Denver-based WorkLife Partnership.
The Human Capital Office leads Baltimore City Schools in attracting, developing, evaluating, engaging, and retaining high-quality leaders for all roles at all levels, ensuring equity, excellence, and opportunity in support of improved student outc
In October 2019, members of the Kirwan Commission’s Funding Formula Workgroup briefed MPN members on their recommendations to the Co
Maryland Philanthropy Network is pleased to welcome Bill Henry, Baltimore’s new Comptroller for a conversation with members.
Please join us in person at the Maryland Philanthropy Network's office for a luncheon session with Dr. Shayna Cook from the Maryland State Department of Education. We will learn about the State's plans and Dr. Cook's vision for early learning in Maryland. There will be an opportunity to be in dialogue with her to learn how funders can be involved and to share the work of the PN5 Affinity Group. Participants will have time for informal networking over lunch.
People and communities of faith contribute to environmental causes, both by stewardship of their own properties and by advocating for environmental protections as a tenet of their faith. Pope Francis' encyclical has raised awareness of the role of faith leaders in calling for a range of environmental reforms. Three Maryland organizations that support activism in faith communities will share their work with us.
Low math and literacy skills disqualify many men and women from training programs that provide occupational skills needed to acquire family sustaining employment.