The Maryland Philanthropy Network’ Diversity and Inclusion Committee, has compiled this list of top picks for your summer reading.
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View Materials from Conversation with the New State Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury
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View program resources from A Conversation with Dr. Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Schools 2023.
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View Materials from Annual Conversation with Dr. Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Schools 2021.
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COVID-19 is bearing down on communities of color with intense disproportional impacts that are felt both economically and physically.
Baltimore City Community College students comprise 31 percent of all Baltimore City residents currently enrolled as undergraduates in Maryland. Students may pursue one of 35 degree and 31 certificate programs.
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View program resources from Governance, Legal Trends, and Best Practices: A Review for Funders.
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View program resources from Member-Sponsored Briefing: Modern Classrooms Project in Baltimore.
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For the people leading local nonprofits to improve on major social issues, it can be lonely at the top.
We have spent a great deal of time in recent weeks connecting with our clients and friends who oversee endowments and foundations, listening to their concerns and offering counsel as we all navigate this pandemic and its impact on our communities.
As we contend with two seismically important events — the Covid -19 pandemic and the uprisings over police brutality and systemic racism — foundations and nonprofits need to work harder than ever to build trust in their programs and policies.
Over the course of this decade, two economic downturns translated into a significant rise in poverty, across the country.
In a December, 2009 Maryland Philanthropy Network program, the Nation
Based on survey responses of 205 leaders of nonprofit organizations with annual expenses between $100,000 and $100 million, Nonprofit Diversity Efforts: Current Practices and the Role of Foundations provides a collection of data on topics such as how diversity relates to the work of nonprofits and what demographic information nonprofits and funders alike are collecting — and how that information is used. The data in this report can inform foundation leaders and staff as they consider how they can most helpfully engage with their grantees on the topic of diversity.
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In 2019, in partnership with BoardSource, Hispanics In Philanthropy set out on a regional listening tour with Latinx Trustees to document their journey and what they saw as opportunities and challenges within the
Building Movement Project (BMP) presents Move The Money: Practices and Values for Funding Social Movements, a set of resources geared towards grantmaking institutions eager to expand and deepen their support of organization
Join the leadership of Healing City Baltimore to learn about its mission, partners, and progress to date and future and to connect with other MPN members interested in trauma-responsive services and healing. To practice self-care and healing together, and as a gift to you from Healing City and MPN, we’ll spend the second half of our time in a mindfulness experience led by Ali Smith of the Holistic Life Foundation.
Maryland Philanthropy Network is pleased to host this In Our Own Voice workshop, in partnership with the Baltimore affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to understand the experience of mental health issues from people with lived experience. NAMI Metropolitan Baltimore’s In Our Own Voice aims to change attitudes, assumptions, and stereotypes by describing the reality of living with mental illness. People with mental health conditions share their powerful personal stories in this presentation. We will be joined in this session by Kerry Graves, Executive Director of NAMI Metropolitan Baltimore.
To kick off 2022, the Arts Funders Affinity Group is pleased to welcome Eddie Torres, president & CEO of Grantmakers in the Arts. In late 2020 and again in mid-2021, Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) surveyed their members about recent and upcoming changes in arts grantmaking practices in response to the pandemic and the movement for Black lives. Eddie will share his national perspective of arts grantmaking and discuss the findings from GIA’s latest survey. We’ll then bring it home with a brief update from Nicholas Cohen from Maryland Citizens for the Arts and have a whole group sharing session about our grantmaking practice and if it reflects the national trends in increased giving, flexibility, support for individual artists, and support for BIPOC organizations. Will also identify opportunities for collaboration and continued learning.