The recent sharp drop in homicides and other crimes in certain cities across the country is welcome news.
The Weinberg Foundation welcomes Earl Millett as the Foundation’s newest program officer.
The Baltimore Sun has compiled a list of links by county for where to go to make appointments for the vaccine if you’re eligible to receive it.
Laureate Education will partner with IBM to design a science curriculum for the more than 1 million students at its nearly 70 for-profit schools around the world.
The Baltimore Business Journal has announced its CEO of the Year and their Power 10 Honorees — business leaders who have made a substantial impact on their industries, companies and communities — and who are highly regarded for their industry knowledge. The list of honorees includes Maryland Philanthropy Network board member Dr. Shanaysha Sauls, CEO of the Baltimore Community Foundation.
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To solve today’s complex social problems, foundations need to shift from the prevailing model of strategic philanthropy that attempts to predict outcomes to an emergent model that better fits the realities of creating social change in a complex wo
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Two years ago, the pandemic was an emergent, novel crisis. Last year, it was “the new normal,” but the Baltimore Community Foundation’s response and that of its fundholders, donors and partners remained fiercely urgent.
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.
Join Maryland Philanthropy Network's Health Funders Affinity Group and the Affinity Group on Aging for the third conversation in our mental health series. Our distinguished panel will share their expertise and intense work to create and sustain a 988 mental health crisis hotline. Together we will explore national and state models and their funding supports, the development plan for the initiative, and learn about Maryland’s need to implement and advocate for its urgency at the 2022 Legislative session. This is a call to action – 988 is not just a phone number – it is a proactive resource for people reaching out for help.
[Women's Philanthropy Institute in partnership with the YWCA and Facebook] celebrated the official launch of the I Am A Philanthropist campaign with a series of stories on Refinery29.
When one of the air-conditioning units failed in late July, the Community Foundation of Washington County MD Inc. came up with the funding to replace the unit.
Concerns about tainted money, undue pressure on fundraisers, the inequality gap, and the role of philanthropy in fixing democracy are among the issues we covered in the past year that will continue as major forces in the year ahead.
Today, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young and the Department of Finance announced that the 2020 Baltimore City Tax Sale scheduled for Monday, May 18 would be postponed to July 20. Mayor Young issued the following statement:
For John Brothers, the death of a black man at the hands of police in Minneapolis has been felt personally. Brothers, president of the T.
In the wake of the attack on the Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, 2021,n prominent nonprofit leaders issued statements and comments. The Chronicle of Philanthropy is collecting and actively updating a list of these statements.
Six years ago, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s staff was 58 percent white. Today, that figure is 43 percent.
On the December 29ths episode of CFHoCo Did You Know, the Community Foundation of Howard County’s director of development, marketing and communications, Dan Flynn, spoke with Erik Dahlen, a construction Superintendent at Har