This weekend’s misinformed, racist tirades made it clear that Donald Trump doesn’t consider Baltimore part of his America. The Baltimore President Trump sees is a racist caricature of urban blight.
Baltimore’s anchor institutions and other businesses recently made news with results from inclusive hiring and purchasing initiatives Hopkins BLocal and the Baltimore Integration Partnership. These large businesses and partnerships show the potent
Maryland Philanthropy Network’s (MPN) School-Centered Neighborhood Investment Initiative (SCNII) funded a research team to conduct an initial analysis that sought to document the 21CSBP’s implementation process, understand the complex relationships among responsible agencies, and explore the implementation and emerging outcomes of the program in three neighborhoods. Their recent report attempts to answer the question what is – and what should be – the role of a “community school?"
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View program resources from A Conversation with Alice Kennedy, Commissioner of Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development.
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The Rockefeller Foundation is investing $20 million in a new initiative focused on improving Covid-19 vaccine access and equity that is set to roll out in Baltimore and four other pilot cities.
Join Maryland Philanthropy Network, the Abell Foundation, and the Middendorf Foundation for a joint program examining recent research on Baltimore City’s contracting, payment, and permitting processes and how delays in those processes negatively affect non-profits and the high-need communities they serve. At this briefing, you will hear from authors of the newly released Abell Report on the City’s contracting process and learn about the findings from a joint Middendorf/MPN study on the City’s permitting and grantmaking systems. The goals of the briefing are to share the scale and scope of the challenges, recommend changes, and discuss how funders can support the implementation of these changes in an effort to strengthen and support Baltimore’s non-profit sector.
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Program materials from "Lyft Grocery Access Program: Connecting South Baltimore to Healthy Food".
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View materials from Funders Together to End Homelessness – Baltimore Meeting - November 2022.
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View materials from "Funders Together to End Homelessness – Baltimore Meeting (05-29-2020)"
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The Morehead-Cain Scholarship at UNC at Chapel Hill has a Civic Collaboration Summer for rising sophomores, and five scholars were assigned to work with Maryland Philanthropy Network and the Middendorf Foundation. This study looks to explore both the permit and grant processes from the perspectives of nonprofit organizations, foundations, and the Baltimore City Government. By interviewing various stakeholders, the scholars gained insight and understood just how complex these processes were. All sides provided their experiences, which led the scholars to develop key takeaways and recommendations to create a more efficient system.
View materials from "Funders Together to End Homelessness – Baltimore Meeting (4/17/20)"
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View Program Resources from Early Childhood Partnership Opportunity with Maryland State Department of Education: Baltimore & Statewide.
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View program resources from Whole Blocks, Whole City: Reclaiming Vacant Property Throughout Baltimore Briefing.
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View program materials from "A Conversation with Dr. Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Schools 2019"
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View materials from "Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative Wage Record Study Debrief".
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View materials from "Informational Session on Baltimore's Arts and Cultural Institutions, with Michael Kaiser"
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