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05/21/2020
United Way of Central Maryland Thursday announced it received a $150,000 grant from Truist Financial Corporation for the nonprofit’s COVID-19 Community Fund to support people and organizations in need during the pandemic.
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05/26/2020
Whenever classes return to school buildings, they’re likely to be very different than the day students walked out so suddenly in March.
Friday, June 12, 2020 at 09:00 to 10:00 AM
Maryland Philanthropy Network is pleased to host Dr. Karen Salmon, State Superintendent of Schools, for a briefing about philanthropy’s role moving forward followed by discussion. Dr. Salmon will address questions such as the availability of state funding to address the digital divide, contingency plans should the pandemic return full force in the next school year and how MSDE is thinking about the community schools strategy in reconstruction and redesign.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 10:00 to 11:00 AM
This week’s call with Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative will include a presentation from Alma Roberts and Tonga Turner from Kaiser Permanente about a new community resource network as part of the Bold Moves Toward Recovery initiative.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 01:00 to 02:00 PM
Join us for a conversation with Laura Weeldreyer, Executive Director of Maryland Family Network, and some of our region’s child care providers to shed light on how national predictions are playing out in Maryland. Participants will learn how to support the safe, responsible re-opening of child care across the state, as well as how we rebuild a stronger and more sustainable industry made for all children and their caregivers.
Friday, June 12, 2020 at 10:00 to 11:00 AM
As the COVID-19 outbreak evolves, we are convening members, grantees, and government sector partners to stay connected, informed, and to support collaborative action.
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View materials from "14th Weekly Funder and Partner Coordination Briefing".
CHANGING THE FUTURE
Stepping Toward Equity…
In recent years, foundations and other funding institutions across the nation have turned their attention to the concept of incorporating a “DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion),” “REI Racial Equity and Inclusion),” “REEI (Racial and Ethnic Equity and Inclusion),” or “Healing and Reconciliation” Lens in their grantmaking processes.
Not discussed as often is the analytical frame that undergirds these marketing terms; the “change” the institutional funding entity is trying to address: expanding “diversity” — a more...
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View materials from "Funders Together to End Homelessness – Baltimore Meeting (06-05-2020)"
Friday, June 26, 2020 at 01:30 to 03:00 PM
Please join us together with OSI-Baltimore, Black Girls Vote, No Boundaries Coalition, and Baltimore Votes for a virtual roundtable about opportunities for funders to support a strong civic participation culture in Baltimore.
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Friday, June 19, 2020 at 10:00 to 11:00 AM
As the COVID-19 outbreak evolves, we are convening members, grantees, and government sector partners to stay connected, informed, and to support collaborative action.
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Friday, June 26, 2020 at 10:00 to 11:00 AM
As the COVID-19 outbreak evolves, we are convening members, grantees, and government sector partners to stay connected, informed, and to support collaborative action.
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05/06/2020
The Horizon Foundation is thrilled to welcome Kenitra Fokwa Kengne to our staff as a Senior Program Officer.
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06/08/2020
Tonia Wellons was named permanent CEO of the Greater Washington Community Foundation on April 2
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04/02/2020
White people aren’t inherently bad or broken. We are humans, born into and conditioned by a toxic culture of whiteness.
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06/05/2020
The Baltimore Health Corps launched this week to train and hire unemployed city residents to work in neighborhoods hit hardest by COVID-19. The initiative is seeking to hire 300 people to perform roles including contact tracing, public health educ
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06/08/2020
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.
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06/05/2020
In the last week, Baltimore has joined other cities in taking up the call for racial equality, with thousands pouring into city streets to protest for equal treatment of African Americans and other people or color under the law.
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06/08/2020
During the coronavirus pandemic, government leaders and the news media have focused their attention on the economic struggles facing business. But America’s nonprofits are in the gravest danger.
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06/08/2020
Baltimore is a one-party city, so much so that it hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1967. Registered Democrats vastly outnumber any other party registration, having a tenfold advantage over the Republican Party.