Positive mental health can have a significant impact on a child’s academic performance and overall well-being. A national team of mental health experts, including the Bainum Family Foundation, today released a new resource that calls for:
Place-based giving has long been a cornerstone of the American philanthropic tradition.
Community Science is a research technique that encourages scientific democracy, accessibility, and accuracy through crowdsourced data collection.
The world of philanthropy has shown renewed interest in curbing racism and hate, and several grant makers have teamed up to urge more collective action.
By expanding support to arts and cultural organizations in diverse neighborhoods, funders can provide a missing ingredient in the effort to advance equity.
The Chesapeake Bay Trust introduces four new Councilmembers, four new ex officio Trustees, and one new Governor-appointed Trustee to its organizational leadership.
It’s the season of giving and what better way to give back than to donate to local non-profits that do great work right in our backyard. That’s the premise of the Shore Gives More.
In October 2019, members of the Kirwan Commission’s Funding Formula Workgroup briefed MPN members on their recommendations to the Co
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), the largest provider of pro bono civil legal services to low-income Marylanders, today announced a generous grant from the Venable Foundation to support its Human Traffic
Rebuilding local news coverage is part of a civic-repair program we must pursue to restore the democratic promise of our cities and of our country.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have decided to postpone this program. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Amanda Cage, previously of the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, will lead the organization’s work around good jobs, economic stability for all, and frontline worker advancement.
BGE is joining with Exelon and Constellation to donate $175,000 to Maryland relief organizations including the United Way of Central Maryland, the Maryland Food Bank
The financial, emotional, and physical toll that the COVID-19 health pandemic has put on our country can’t be overstated. This is a time for federal policymakers to come together – using every policy lever possible, every public resource available
As the coronavirus spread endangers millions of lives around the globe, nonprofits and foundations are scrambling to find the best ways to help.
Maryland Philanthropy Network joined a public statement issued today by our colleagues at the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers regarding funding for the District of Columbia as part of federal legisl
The decision to spend down all the assets of the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation was made in 2008, creating significant opportunities as well as some real challenges.
It is not news to anyone that the Covid-19 pandemic has been hard on nonprofits, many of which are working with the communities hardest hit by this disease. In the past month, many nonprofit organizations have been on a pause.
Protective films around bus drivers, temperature checks at schoolhouse doors, playgrounds marked with social distancing markers.
