“This veggie lasagna is so fresh and delicious,” said one of the patrons of With Love, Co. A forty- year vegan, the customer told Jacqueline Bellamy-Bey, the owner of With Love, Co., how excited she was to learn that a plant-based eatery had just opened up in Parkville.
The Pitch Competition will feature local business owners competing for up to $500, a panel of judges, and guest speakers Jim Peterson from the Small Business Resource Center and John Brothers from the T. Rowe Price Foundation.
Who gets to be a leader? In Baltimore, community members and social leaders recognized that the nonprofit sector had two issues when it comes to talent development: the qualifications of leadership were not inclusive, and organizations overlooked community members as the most important assets towards addressing the city’s most pressing issues.
Equitable leaders are “more than” their battles, they’re also the devotion they pour into communities and the way that love blossoms into tangible change and dreams within grasp. He was the epitome of the love that can come from growing in Baltimore, and is what love looks like in action.
Thursday, September 26th Baltimore Corps convened a conversation with community, civic and student leaders on the Kirwan Commission. Baltimore Corps C.E.O Fagan Harris welcomed the group and stated the goals of the conversation were to explicitly talk about racial equity and Baltimore city’s strategy in Annapolis.
"In a country that looks more and more like Baltimore every day, which is a majority-minority city, it's incredibly important that we're a more just and inclusive place." - Fagan Harris, CEO of Baltimore Corps.
Baltimore has the makings to be America's frontier of social change. In this new video from Emerson Collective, meet some of our Fellows working to create and sustain opportunity for communities throughout Baltimore:
Our Visionary Cause Leader, CUPs Coffeehouse, was recently featured on Voice of America. Their BookBox project, gives the community more access to reading materials. Watch the video here:
http://www.voanews.com/media/video/path-to-literacy-on-the-street-corner/3081506.html
