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Racial Equity in Lean Foundations: Staying the Course Toward Inclusive Philanthropy
Release Date: 
09/25/2025

Philanthropy has always excelled when it listens, learns, and evolves to meet the needs of the communities it serves. In recent years, lean funders have increasingly recognized that racial equity is not an optional add-on to their work; it is central to their mission regardless of the focus area. Exponent Philanthropy's 2025 publication, “Racial Equity in Lean Foundations: Staying the Course Toward Inclusive Philanthropy,” delves into how foundations are incorporating racial equity into their work to drive better decisions, achieve more equitable outcomes, and amplify their philanthropic impact.

USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO SUPPORT PHILANTHROPY
Release Date: 
11/07/2012

Raising the public’s awareness of the role philanthropy plays — especially the work of our member foundations and corporate giving programs — to improve the quality of life in our region is a major goal of the Maryland Philanthropy Network.

Census citizenship question hurts equity efforts
Release Date: 
08/07/2018

Social movements require bold responses, especially when government policy would directly discriminate against classes of people. We are active in our fight for equity, and we can be active in this battle over the Census question, writes Horizon Foundation CEO and Maryland Philanthropy Network Board Member Nikki Highsmith Vernick.

Members' Memo | July 31, 2023
Release Date: 
07/31/2023

A message to the Maryland Philanthropy Network membership from our Interim President and CEO Kevin McHugh.

DEFINING AND MEASURING SUCCESS WITH DATA
Release Date: 
04/10/2012

As a membership organization of foundations and corporate giving programs, the Maryland Philanthropy Network has had a longstanding interest in increasing the funding community's capacity to support and use data to inform decision making.

stepUp! Baltimore
Release Date: 
04/14/2011

As communities across the country celebrate April as National Volunteer month, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced details about a new comprehensive volunteer plan called 

Focus on Student Mental Health and Well-being
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 10:00 to 11:30 AM

Join Maryland Philanthropy Network for a conversation at the nexus of education and health. Together, we will explore how schools are responding to children in mental health crisis, how those students are being supported, what this looks like in practice, and ways the philanthropic community can be supportive.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Education Funders
Health Funders
Members Only
Funding Area: 
Behavioral Health
Children's and Youth Services
Education
Health Access and Care
Members' Memo | May 2, 2024
Release Date: 
05/02/2024

A message to the Maryland Philanthropy Network membership from our President and CEO Danista E. Hunte.

Member Sponsored Briefing: Talk and Walk: An Update on the Baltimore Greenway Trails
Friday, September 20, 2024 at 10:00 to 12:00 PM

Join us to learn more about the status of the 35-mile Baltimore Greenway Trail Network and to hear from those working to complete the trail. Panelists will share the value of the trail for transportation, recreation and neighborhood connectivity.

Event type: 
Member Sponsored Briefing
Audience: 
All Funders
Community Investment Funders
Green Funders
Health Funders
Funding Area: 
Community Development/Neighborhoods
Digital Equity in Baltimore and the COVID-19 Crisis
Monday, May 11, 2020 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM

Please join Maryland Philanthropy Network for this first in a series of conversations about how inequities in digital access are impacting our communities during the pandemic and what can be done to address immediate needs.  This first conversation will provide an overview on the situation in Baltimore.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Education Funders
Members Only
Workforce Development Funders
Topic: 
COVID-19
Funding Area: 
Education
Employment/Workforce development
Science and Technology
Green Funders Legislative Debrief
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 10:00 to 11:30 AM

Please join Maryland Philanthropy Network’s Green Funders Affinity Group for a Legislative Debrief to understand the political forces shaping Maryland’s environmental policy and the legislative progress expected in the future. Speakers from the Maryland League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club’s Maryland Chapter, and The Nature Conservancy’s Maryland/DC Chapter will provide an overview of outcomes from this year’s Maryland General Assembly, particularly around the groups top priorities of infrastructure deployment and environmental/climate justice.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
All Funders
Green Funders
Topic: 
Public Policy
Funding Area: 
Advocacy
Open Letter to Governor Hogan, Executive and Legislative Leaders Regarding State Budget Surplus
Release Date: 
11/04/2021

Maryland Philanthropy Network has joined Maryland Nonprofits and our colleagues across Maryland in responding to a call for ideas from the State for how the budget surplus should be allocated. MPN was part of a group of 170 practitioners and partners that came together to create a joint appeal the result of which is this letter to the Governor. Together, we urge the State to dedicate $1 billion of the projected budget surplus for targeted relief, and that $500 million of this commitment should continue in future budgets to assure sustainability and for more equitable disbursement of state resources in partnership with the social purpose sector.

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