Tuesday, January 28, 2020
For February 2020, Baltimore magazine published a special edition celebrating leaders of positive change in Baltimore - Baltimore GameChangers.
The goal of the issue was to... READ MORE
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Monday, January 27, 2020
The most important way to improve Baltimore neighborhoods, according to respondents in the Blueprint for Baltimore survey, is by creating safer streets. READ MORE
Monday, January 27, 2020
Our sector’s addiction to intellectualizing, equivocating, risk-avoiding, and time-wasting is lethal, and there are few places where this is more present than within philanthropy. Because of power... READ MORE
Monday, January 27, 2020
A survey asked thousands of Baltimoreans about their priorities for the city. Here’s what they said.
Last fall, city residents themselves got the chance to weigh in. More than 5,000 filled out a survey designed to capture their top priorities ahead of the 2020 mayoral and City Council races. The... READ MORE
Friday, January 24, 2020
Unlike the public bathrooms, dark alleys and vacant rowhomes where addicts furtively conduct their... READ MORE
Thursday, January 23, 2020
From the top floor of Hotel Revival, I marveled at a sunny 360-degree view of Baltimore. Directly south along the water I could see Port Covington, a former industrial area being redeveloped into... READ MORE
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Among the many trends in giving we have seen advancing over the last decade is a shift toward entertaining shorter time frames for the philanthropic spending of personal fortunes. Now, a new report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors suggests the number of time-limited foundations, sometimes referred to as “spend-down foundations,” is gaining on those organized to give in perpetuity. READ MORE
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Carroll County is a community on fire — a fire of love and concern and giving, lots of giving. It nearly makes me cry whenever I stop to think about the depth of what goes on this little county,... READ MORE
Friday, January 17, 2020
JPMorgan Chase & Co. wants to set an example for companies across the U.S. that Baltimore is a city on the rise.
I met with Peter Scher, one of the top executives at... READ MORE
Thursday, January 16, 2020
In recent years a growing number of foundations have fastidiously articulated new program goals to support people of color, people who are LBGTQ, people with low incomes, and others facing barriers to progress. But Jara Dean-Coffey says something huge is missing from all of those equity efforts — a rethinking of the way foundations measure success. READ MORE
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