View Materials from Maryland Community Foundations Association Quarterly Meeting – April 2021
Site Search
Release Date:
01/19/2025
In times of challenge, uncertainty or transition, community foundations can bring people together for a common cause: the community.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 03:00 to 04:30 PM
Please join us for a meet and greet with MPN Member, Erin Robertson, the Chief Programs Officer for Nature Sacred. This program will include an overview of Nature Sacred, its vision for health in Maryland and evidence of the healing power of nature with Teresia Hazen, M.Ed., HTR, QMHP and award-winning Firesoul. Katie Lautar, Executive Director of Baltimore Green Space will share how they are working at the intersection of community care of green spaces, advocacy, and scientific research that promotes the health of communities and equitable access to sustainable green spaces.
Event type:
Audience:
Release Date:
07/13/2018
On Tuesday, July 24, 2018, 9:00 - 9:20 AM, Shanaysha Sauls, BCF's President & CEO, will tell us about BCF's strategic plan. She'll dive into how BCF will be approaching engagement, fundraising and grantmaking three and a half years.
Release Date:
08/26/2024
The Washington Association of Black Journalists (WABJ) is thrilled to announce that VoicesDMV, an initiative of the Greater Washington Community Foundation, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Dr. Sheila Brooks Community Impact Award. This award recognizes the community engagement initiative’s commitment to amplifying the voices and needs of underrepresented communities across the D.C. metropolitan area.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM
Philanthropy is crucial in maintaining a strong and equitable democracy. Such a democracy creates a culture of civic participation which enables communities to utilize collective power to shape systems and structures.
Event type:
Audience:
Topic:
Funding Area:
Release Date:
06/06/2018
In 2011, Susan Purnell conceived of a philanthropic idea to amplify the lives of local women and girls by starting a fund and asking each member to donate $1,000.
Release Date:
12/07/2017
Our Neighborhood Grants Program offers funding for projects that help neighborhoods in Baltimore City and Baltimore County become and remain safe, vibrant, clean and green, and to be supporters and champions of their local schools.
Wednesday, November 04, 2015 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM
This peer exchange is designed to share information about neighborhood and community investment grantmaking particularly as we work together to revitalize Baltimore communities. Whether you are considering making a neighborhood grant for the first time or have a dedicated community development portfolio, this session will provide an opportunity to learn from one another and to explore future possibilities for joint action.
Event type:
Audience:
Topic:
Funding Area:
Release Date:
08/15/2022
This month, we celebrate Black Philanthropy Month, a worldwide, month-long celebration of Black giving, launched in August 2011 by Jackie Bouvier Copeland and the Pan-African Women’s Philanthropy Network, now called Reunity.
Release Date:
12/30/2021
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore recently announced that Robin Evans, Tyrone Mills, Melody Nelson and Sonya Whited have joined the Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Release Date:
01/07/2022
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore recently announced Robin Evans, Tyrone Mills, Melody Nelson and Sonya Whited have joined the foundation’s Board of Directors.
Release Date:
03/24/2020
Life has taken a drastic, unexpected turn.
Release Date:
05/07/2020
Coastal Hospice has been awarded a $2,ooo dollar Emergency Response Grant for Personal Protection Equipment.
Release Date:
07/07/2020
The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore just donated $5,000 to make sure hospitality workers get the training they need to keep them safe during the pandemic.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 11:00 to 02:00 PM
Community and Philanthropy Investing Together
A networking event and keynote address hosted by the Maryland Philanthropy Network
Event type:
Audience:
Topic:
Funding Area:
Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 09:30 to 11:00 AM
The Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program became available to applicants beginning with the 2019-2020 academic year.
Event type:
Release Date:
01/18/2020
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, yet so many have no idea.
Release Date:
06/30/2020
The COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund, a coordinated fund established by the Greater Washington Community Foundation, has issued new investments of $2.8 million as part of phase two of rapid response grantmaking.