Following the bank’s rapid expansion into the region, JPMorgan Chase pledged $20 million in 2022 through 2027 to small businesses, entrepreneurs and community developers focused on curbing the city’s vacant housing epidemic.
The Baltimore Business Journal has unveiled its 2024 class of 40 Under 40 honorees, spotlighting the very best of the next generation of local business leaders.
A new resource provides an overview of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation’s grantmaking in the Baltimore community.
The Daily Record has announced its 2024 Influential Marylanders, honoring 62 recipients who are leaving their mark throughout the state. The list of honorees includes three Maryland Philanthropy Network members.
Everyone agrees that teens need more sleep. So why does school start so early? This report from the Abell Foudation examines the research on school start times and the implications for students in Baltimore City.
The Baltimore Business Journal has announced its CEO of the Year and their Power 10 Honorees — business leaders who have made a substantial impact on their industries, companies and communities — and who are highly regarded for their indu
Each year brings new opportunities for the Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF) to grow its presence and increase its positive impact in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. In 2023, after a period of significant growth at the foundation and after the intensity of the first couple of years of the COVID-19 pandemic had passed, the foundation turned its focus inward to develop and launch Inspire, its new strategic plan.
In the 2021-22 school year, only one in three fourth graders in the United States was reading at grade level, only one in four eighth graders was proficient in math, and rates of chronic absence had skyrocketed.
A new partnership to address homelessness in Baltimore will grow the city’s supply of affordable housing with services to help people remain stable.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is saddened to share that Patrice Cromwell, vice president of the Foundation’s Center for Economic Opportunity, passed away on Aug. 27, 2024, after a long illness. Cromwell, who spent nearly 20 years at the Foundation, led its investments to improve financial stability and educational and economic prospects for children, young people and families.
