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Tour: Goodwill Excel Center High School
Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 01:00 to 02:00 PM

In Fall 2023, Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake opened the Baltimore Excel Center High School, a school designed to provide residents aged 21 and older the opportunity to receive a tuition-free high school diploma along with access to post-secondary education and careers. Please join the Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative and the Maryland Philanthropy Network's Workforce Funders Affinity Group to tour the school and learn more about the Excel model.

Event type: 
Site Visit
Audience: 
Education Funders
Members Only
Workforce Development Funders
Funding Area: 
Employment/Workforce development
Education Funders Affinity Group

This peer group supports a broad range of programming and convening to explore education investment opportunities, educational research findings, best practices, and advocates for related public policy.

Housing Funder Huddle
Friday, March 14, 2025 at 09:00 to 10:30 AM

Convened by MPN’s Funders Together to End Homelessness – Baltimore, all funders interested in housing justice and homelessness prevention are welcome to attend this huddle! Lightly structured as a peer-to-peer exchange, we encourage you to bring your burning questions, strategic ponderings, or interesting projects to raise with the group. We’ll also ask for your ideas about learning and potential future collaboration.  

Event type: 
Network Building
Audience: 
Basic Human Needs Funders
Community Investment Funders
Funders Together to End Homelessness Baltimore
Members Only
Seniors & Housing Collaborative
Funding Area: 
Basic Human Needs
Housing and Homelessness
Building Bridges Between Blacks and Jews
Release Date: 
03/04/2025

Recently, The Associated, in partnership with The Elijah Cummings Youth Program, Associated Black Charities, and the Baltimore Jewish Council, launched Baltimore’s inaugural cohor

Strong and Glowing: Improving Quality of Life & Well-Being by Investing in Place
Tuesday, November 01, 2022 at 01:00 to 02:30 PM

Baltimore has long benefited from the place-based investments of our philanthropic community. The Community Investment Affinity Group and others who invest in place are invited to hear about two newer initiatives led, in part, by MPN members:

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Community Investment Funders
Members Only
Topic: 
Impact Investing
Funding Area: 
Community Development/Neighborhoods
DEFINING AND MEASURING SUCCESS WITH DATA
Release Date: 
04/10/2012

As a membership organization of foundations and corporate giving programs, the Maryland Philanthropy Network has had a longstanding interest in increasing the funding community's capacity to support and use data to inform decision making.

Education and Policy: What's the Focus for 2019?
Monday, February 25, 2019 at 09:30 to 11:00 AM

Join us for a conversation with City Schools and the ACLU to discuss the education policy agenda for this legislative session.  We will be joined by Melissa Broome,  Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs, Baltimore City Schools and Bebe Verdery, Education Director, ACLU of Maryland.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
Education Funders
Members Only
Topic: 
Kirwan Commission
Public Policy
Funding Area: 
Education: K-12
Philanthropists should tackle racial justice.
Release Date: 
04/11/2019

A recent commentary in The Baltimore Sun delved into the many ways that the institutions of American society discriminate against African Americans (“The case for reparations is clear; the means are not,” April 7).

20th Weekly Funder and Partner Coordination Briefing
Friday, August 07, 2020 at 10:00 to 11:00 AM

As the COVID-19 outbreak evolves, we are convening members, grantees, and government sector partners to stay connected, informed, and to support collaborative action. Our conversation will include updates from Baltimore City and Baltimore County on eviction prevention and housing stability efforts as related to COVID-19.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
All Funders
Members Only
Topic: 
COVID-19
Grantmaking Strategy & Tools
Funding Area: 
Disaster Relief
Health Access and Care
Tuerk House receives $700K grant from Weinberg Foundation
Release Date: 
07/15/2020

Tuerk House, a nonprofit drug and alcohol treatment system serving the most disadvantaged members of the greater Baltimore community, has been awarded a signature grant of $700,000 from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the larges

Behavioral Health Legislative Wrap-up
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 12:00 to 01:30 PM

Please join the Behavioral Health Funders Group to hear outcomes from this year's legislative session. We will hear from the following organizations: National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Maryland Chapter, Mental Health Maryland Philanthropy Network of Maryland and Behavioral Health System Baltimore.

Event type: 
Community Issues
Audience: 
All Funders
Behavioral Health Funders
Topic: 
Public Policy
Funding Area: 
Advocacy
Behavioral Health

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