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Book Discussion of Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 02:30 to 04:00 PM

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Andre Perry, author of  Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities. Dr. Perry will be joined by Stephanie Smith, Baltimore City’s Assistant Director for Equity, Engagement and Communications and Maryland State Delegate, to discuss how government, corporate, non-profit, and philanthropic sectors in the Baltimore region could restore value to communities by adopting a new paradigm for determining and building value and wealth in Baltimore’s Black communities.  

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
All Funders
Members Only
Topic: 
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Funding Area: 
Community Development/Neighborhoods
Housing and Homelessness
We Must be in it for the Long Haul: A Peer Conversation about Stemming Anti-Black Racism
Thursday, October 01, 2020 at 02:00 to 03:30 PM

In June, ABFE released We Must be in it for the Long Haul, a call to action to philanthropy to stem anti-Black racism developed in partnership with Black foundations executives across the country. 

Shanaysha Sauls, President & CEO of the Baltimore Community Foundation and one of the signatories of the statement, will ground participants in the impetus for the statement and share insight around the significance for MPN’s members.  From there, MPN members will have a chance to learn and share with peers in smaller breakout groups.

Event type: 
Grantmaking Practice
Audience: 
All Funders
Members Only
Topic: 
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Health Equity Grantmaking Practices: A Roundtable Discussion
Wednesday, March 04, 2020 at 10:00 to 11:30 AM

This year, Maryland Philanthropy Network’s Health Funders will be conducting a series of programs exploring Social Determinants of Health topics, to better understand the roles of all funder groups in advancing health equity.

Event type: 
Grantmaking Practice
Audience: 
All Funders
Topic: 
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Funding Area: 
Behavioral Health
Capacity Building
Civil Rights and Social Justice
Health Access and Care
Hunger and Nutrition
Poverty
Race, Equity, and Social Determinants of Health
Friday, February 28, 2020 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM

Access to stable housing, food quality, social support networks, and other social factors are critical in shaping health outcomes. These factors are known as social determinants of health and they are rooted in unjust systems.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
All Funders
Health Funders
Topic: 
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Funding Area: 
Basic Human Needs
Civil Rights and Social Justice
Community Development/Neighborhoods
Health Access and Care
Housing and Homelessness
Decolonizing Wealth: A Conversation with Edgar Villanueva
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 04:00 to 06:30 PM

Through a presentation and discussion with Stuart Clarke, Edgar Villanueva will outline his provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance and offer a prescription for restoring balance and healing our divides.

Event type: 
Grantmaking Practice
Audience: 
All Funders
Nonprofit Staff/Grantseekers
Topic: 
Conversations with Leaders
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Governance
Grantmaking Strategy & Tools
Leadership Development

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