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Baltimore’s Black Yield Institute Moves with ‘Urgent Process’ — You Can Too
Aug 17 · 6 min read
Photo Credit: Black Yield Institute via Instagram (@blackyield)
For many of us working in the social impact sector, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a wave of emails containing list upon list of resources and ways to support others in need. Many organizations are jumping in with two feet to do something — even if it is to gather and share resources. These responses came with both an understandable, and necessary, urgency.
Despite these efforts, the pandemic has disproportionately impacted Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. In our previous Stories to Support piece, “Baltimore’s Black Food Sovereignty Movement: What You Need To Know,” Clarissa Chen illustrated the relationship between COVID-19, systemic racism, and food apartheid — illustrating how the current pandemic provides a new context for an issue that is not at all new. Food apartheid is yet another example that nothing -no matter how urgent- exists in a vacuum; we are always living and working within the context of systemic and institutional racism and white supremacy culture.
Eric Jackson, Founder & Servant-Director of Black Yield Institute (BYI), believes we need to move with an “urgent process” pushing against the binary of “either, or” to assert that it is a “both, and” situation. This past week Clarissa and I met with Eric to talk about how BYI approaches their work — especially during a pandemic, and gather his advice for people looking to engage in the movement for Black land and food sovereignty.
we are always living and working within the context of systemic and institutional racism
BYI is a Pan-African power institution based in South Baltimore that works towards Black land and food sovereignty. Black Yield Institute aims “to create a self-determined and self-reliant community of Black institutions, Black-owned businesses and people of African Descent in Baltimore’s poor and Black food environments.” Their five main initiatives involve two direct action projects and three programs that facilitate political education work, action network building, and community-based participatory action research. The two specific action projects are the Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden, and the Cherry Hill Food Co-op, both of which operate in Baltimore’s Cherry Hill community.
“We want to be both responsive to what’s happening in the here and now- that has been impacted by history- but also we want to make history by creating sustainable coordinated interventions that deal with where we are right now and build power toward the future.” — Eric Jackson
Black Yield Institute’s work expands beyond an organizational mission: BYI puts focus on social movement building informed by, and rooted in, community accountability. “The ultimate goal for BYI is to really be an incubator,” Eric explains. BYI’s projects, emerging from community conversations and expressed needs, are intended to become their own entities. Eric continues, “and if we’ve done our job, then we’ve developed leaders that can lead these new entities that are part of this larger movement work.”
Black Yield Institute aims “to create a self-determined and self-reliant community of Black institutions, Black-owned businesses and people of African Descent in Baltimore’s poor and Black food environments.
BYI’s holistic, intentional approach to their work has not changed amidst the current pandemic. While some engagements moved to virtual platforms, and they began distributing food and supplies to community members, they continued to connect their direct action work to their larger strategy and movement building. The lesson in this extends beyond the pandemic.
Eric described how a lack of strategy harms social movement building, including the recent reinvigoration of the Movement for Black Lives. “Emotions are driving people to the street… We should be moving with our emotions, but the armor that protects our emotions and longevity has to be our collective consciousness and has to be relationships… So when we go to the street, we are actually returning somewhere afterward to talk about what’s next.” The armor that Eric is referencing takes time and strategy to build up, and he believes we all need to be using the tools in our toolbelt to do so.
Eric’s advice for those looking to engage in movement work:
Slow down and start with you.
“Don’t do anything outwardly- just chill out. Then ask yourself, ‘why do you feel the impulse to do something?’… ‘what about you deserves to be connected to this work?’ It’s not about worth but why do you deserve to do it? Is it because of your privilege? And if it is, what has your privilege afforded you that you’re willing to give to establish relationships and connection to this movement…as a means of reparatory justice- to repair- rather than to make your name look good and put some pictures and nice words on Instagram. And if that’s the answer — not only slow up, but stay your ass at home.”
This candid, intrapersonal reflection is necessary to engage in movement work. We all internalize and uphold facets of white supremacy culture, knowingly and/or subconsciously. To identify those beliefs and actions, we have to be our own biggest critic — without ego and pride clouding our judgment and motivations.
Actually talk to people.
“Relationships are the building blocks of movements.”
Many of us get stuck in “analysis paralysis,” meaning we think the answer is to keep reading and learning without experiencing. Eric connected this to the dangers of only committing to “saying all the right things.” If we avoid vulnerability and authentic relationships -ones where you can risk screwing up to learn and grow- then we risk being lulled to sleep by fancy words that we might not really understand. He adds, “there’s this illusion that you’ve already grown and that you’ve come to this place of self-actualization. When the truth is you’ve been actualized through the works of other people.”
Talking to people and learning about their experiences is one approach. “You can read, but we won’t move the needle if we’re only intellectually in it. This movement should be a whole-body experience,” Eric explained.
Third, humble yourself.
“Help is not ‘help’ if it’s not helpful. So how do you know if it’s helpful? Ask people questions. Can I help? Is there room for me? If there isn’t, back the f*ck up.”
Black liberation work should be led by Black people. If you’re looking to engage in this movement work, those leading should be the ones defining the terms and conditions. Once you’ve done the introspective work and relationship building outlined above, identify what you bring to the table (skills, time, dollars, etc.) and ways to use them. Then, ask how you can be helpful.
How Can You Support Black Yield Institute?
Donate to Black Yield Institute
Volunteer at the Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden
Support the Cherry Hill Food Co-op
Stream Baltimore’s Strange Fruit — a documentary film produced by Black Yield Institute, directed by Eric Jackson and Maddie Hardy
Want to Learn More About Food Sovereignty in Baltimore?
Read: Baltimore’s Black Food Sovereignty Movement: What You Need To Know
Watch: Black Yield Institute youtube series “CHUCG TALK”
Listen: Future City podcast — Sweet Potatoes and Power: Food Security in Baltimore
Do you know of an initiative responding to COVID-19 as a racial equity issue? Complete our Airtable Form to be featured on Stories to Support!
Thank you to Eric Jackson of BYI for sharing your time, energy, and wisdom. And, thank you to the collaborators of Stories to Support for contributing to this piece.
Written by Hannah Correlli
Interview conducted by Clarissa Chen and Hannah Correlli
Edited by Clarissa Chen, Kate Lynch, Blake Wrigley, & Hess Stinson
Baltimore’s Black Food Sovereignty Movement: What You Need To Know
Jul 24 · 11 min read
Farmer Nell & Doc Cheatham: Freedom Fighters for Food Sovereignty photo from The Afro
This piece is a part of Stories to Support.
During the first week of pandemic induced “shelter in place,” people across the U.S. panic-bought flour, canned goods, and frozen vegetables; emptying the shelves in grocery stores. Americans were scared, threatened by the possibility of an unstable food supply coupled with an inability to go on weekly grocery trips. For middle and upper-class Americans, this fear was in response to a government-sanctioned quarantine. However, for low-income Americans, lacking access to healthy food can be a daily reality.
COVID-19 compounded the conditions that create food insecurity, especially for those who weren’t able to stock up on months’ worth of food. Many in Baltimore City have come face-to-face with what it means to be food insecure during a pandemic.
Twenty-three and a half percent of Baltimoreans live in a Healthy Food Priority Area, and Black residents are the most likely to live in one. Baltimore City defines living in a Healthy Food Priority Area (formerly known as a food desert) by four factors:
an area where the average Healthy Food Availability Index score for all food stores is low
the median household income is at or below 185 percent of the Federal Poverty Level
over 30 percent of households have no vehicle available
the distance to a supermarket is more than 1/4 mile.
Thirty-one and a half percent of Black residents in Baltimore live in a Healthy Food Priority Area, compared to only 8.9% of white residents living in food compromised areas. The CDC lists Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people under “racial and ethnic minority groups” that need to take “extra precaution” against COVID, citing living conditions due to racial segregation, imprisonment, being an essential worker, distrust in the health care system, and underlying health conditions as reasons why — these patterns are all the result of systemic and institutional racism.
These are all factors of mobility: economic, physical, and social.
COVID-19 limits mobility in unique ways: it is determined not just by what type of vehicle one owns or doesn’t own, but whether their body is older, immunosuppressed, or already sick.
COVID-19 has, in short, made food insecurity worse for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities. It furthers the conditions of food apartheid, a term that accurately describes the history of redlining, segregation, and racial oppression that created the pattern of the Healthy Food Priority Areas we see today.
In compromising situations, human resilience inevitably creates solutions.
Warren and Lavette Blue at The Greener Garden. (Photo by Jesse James DeConto)
BIPOC activists have been expanding food access both prior to, and in response to, COVID-19. Inaccessibility to a reliable supply of healthy, affordable food has gotten worse since the pandemic, and we can find the answers of how to solve it through the works of BIPOC activists towards food sovereignty.
Food sovereignty establishes food as a right, and emphasizes control over the production and distribution of food in the hands of those who cultivate the land and eat food, as explained in the robust framework from the peasant farmers of Via Campesina.
Food sovereignty establishes food as a right.
In Baltimore, we are living on the land of Paskestikweya people who took care of this part of Earth before settler-colonizers committed genocide against the Indigenous peoples of this land. Simultaneous with atrocities being committed against Native people, European settlers then enslaved and relied on the labor of Black people to grow their food, along with being forced to produce labor for major industries of tobacco, cotton, sugar, iron, and more. In resistance to centuries-long displacement from food sovereignty, Black people have been doing the work of creating community-based systems to care for themselves and their family. In Baltimore, we turn to the leadership of Black activists who have been leading this work of creating a self-reliant, alternative food system. Black people have been cultivating this land for centuries, and Native Americans working with the land since time immemorial, however are most marginalized by the modern food system.
These leaders have been studying, practicing, actively planting seeds, preserving their land, and reclaiming ancestral practices — even as state violence has ripped away land and food access. Food Justice leaders have demonstrated that when we fight for healthy food access, we support each other through our basic needs in community. We can determine the trajectory of our own lives; we don’t have to be dependent on the systems and people that hurt us.
Growing Food
Most stories of chattel slavery reduce enslaved Black folks down to bodies used for labor, Judith A. Carney, along with other scholars, counters such dehumanization with a theory that Africans were responsible for the cultivation of rice. Having carried it with them from West Africa, Africans who were trafficked to the Americas used their agricultural knowledge to establish rice as a crop. In addition to this prized crop, European settlers also took advantage of the agricultural knowledge of Indigenous nations across the continent for their own survival. Today many agriculturists are looking to Indigenous practices on ways to restore the land and grow food sustainably.
The Greener Garden 5623 McClean Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21214
Acknowledging the history of how enslaved Black people were forced to tend to land, yet historically excluded from owning it, is necessary in modern conversations about food justice. This fact inherently ties into land justice and reparations, a history that Soul Fire Farm and co-director Leah Penniman use to center the call for reparations. Supporting resources for this call included a reparations map, and a book on what it means to farm while Black.
In Baltimore, we are blessed to be in a community with many farmers who have cultivated vacant lots into urban gardens and harvest the fruits of their labor to share at farmstands, markets, and community supported agriculture shares. The Farm Alliance has compiled a list of all Black-owned and operated farms in the city, as well as created a fund to support education for Black farmers.
Nationally, Civil Eats has compiled a list of organizations working towards food sovereignty and justice.
Distributing Food
Cooperatives have been an alternative means of creating food access through mutual investment and support. Some of the first cooperatives were founded by Black people as a necessary work towards liberation. Fannie Lou Hamer, most famous for her Civil Rights work around registering voters, saw establishing sustainable food access as a necessity for Black liberation and created the Freedom Farms Cooperative. Families that participated got a pig they had to care for, with the promise that they would bring bag two piglets the next year, among receiving housing, employment, and education.
“The time has come now when we are going to have to get what we need ourselves. We may get a little help, here and there, but in the main we’re going to have to do it ourselves.” Fannie Lou Hamer
The Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union (CAFCU), founded in the 1880s, brought Black farmers together to establish leadership in Southern agriculture. At its peak, the CFACU had one million members, who benefited from newsletters to share agricultural practices, raised mutual aid funds to support the sick and elderly, and allied farmers to be an active voice in local and regional politics.
Fannie Lou Hamer
W.E.B DuBois archived the history of cooperatives in Black communities in his piece, “Economic Cooperation among Negro Americans”, noting how Black people pooled resources in church congregations, worker-owned businesses, fraternal societies, and mutual aid groups. Published in 1907, he counted 154 Black-owned cooperatives.
The Black Panther Party started the Free Breakfast Program in 1969, distributing breakfast to Black children. They recognized the need for community services and created the program to serve kids (especially since many of them weren’t able to focus or learn in school for a variety of reasons — not having access to meals was one of them). They worked with local churches, grocery stores, and mothers, to bring free breakfast in at least 36 cities around the US. They notably pioneered this effort before 1975, when federally-funded free breakfast was expanded.
Arabbers in Baltimore have been since the end of the Civil War, and while only a few of these horse-cart mobile markets still market on the streets of Baltimore today, the Arabber Preservation Society maintains the history and value of their work in expanding food access in Black neighborhoods.
Arabber in the 20th century
Today, the No Boundaries Coalition runs a program called Fresh at the Avenue, connecting residents of Sandtown to affordable produce at the Avenue Market. During COVID-19, they’ve been distributing food via home deliveries to their neighbors.
The Black Church Food Security Network promotes growing and distributing food on the land of historically Black churches. They connect Black farmers and producers to churches and are running a Faith, Food, and Freedom Summer Campaign to encourage gardening, working with Black farmers, and food storage. Normally, they also run a Soil to Sanctuary Market at Pleasant Hope Baptist Church.
Many Black farmers and food businesses are continuing to vend at a physically distant Wednesday Druid Hill Farmers’ Market this summer. The Cherry Hill Food Cooperative is currently building to create a grocery store that would be owned, operated, and benefiting Cherry Hill residents.
Preparing and Eating Food
Food is the manifestation of ancestral dreams; serving as a creation of physical and spiritual nourishment. For many, food is one of the facets of culture that has remained resilient through journeys of immigration, and the terrors of enslavement and land robbery. The preparation and cooking of food is a practice that has been historically gendered, especially in commercial settings, and often relies on the labor of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color.
Enslaved people were responsible for cooking meals for the families of their enslavers. Through both adaptation and forced labor, Black people have indelibly shaped what we think of as Southern food today. However there are few Black chefs in the ranks of a mostly white male-dominated culinary field. Edna Lewis brought Black southern cooking into the spotlight when she wrote The Taste of Country Cooking, a cookbook and memoir about her life growing up in rural Virginia. Today, chef-activists like Tunde Wey are calling attention to the economic ownership white folks have over Southern food, though it originated in the hands of enslaved Black women and men.
Dr. Christopher Carter, a professor at University of California, San Diego, has focused his studies on what it means to eat soulfully, a question that is rooted in his theological lens on food. He discusses the racialization of food, and how eating soulfully should embody the three virtues of “embracing our soul, justice for food workers, and care of the earth.”
Today in Baltimore, the Black Vegetarian Society of Maryland, Thrive Baltimore, and Holistic Wellness and Health are all Black-led organizations and businesses that focus on promoting healthy, plant-based diets within the Black community by way of increasing access to nutritional education, affordability of plant-based foods, and supporting Black-owned businesses. Gregory Brown, Kimberly Ellis, Krystal Mack, Catina Smith aka Chef Cat, and David Thomas are just a few of the Black chefs and food creatives that are claiming space for eating soulfully within the culinary arts and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
We can foster Black ownership within the food system by eating at Black-owned restaurants in Baltimore. Many of these Black-owned restaurants serve not just as a place to support the economic growth, but as a grounds for convening to work on other forms of justice.
Healing Land
Regenerating soil and healing the land that food is grown, harvested, and consumed on is both the end and the beginning of the food system.
A collaboration between leaders within the food and land justice movements became Land Justice, an anthology of essays that called for the food justice movement to come together to secure land access.
The first Community Land Trust, was founded by Black Civil Rights activists in 1970, called New Communities, Inc, a 5000 acre plot in Georgia. The founders bought the land on a loan, and struggled to maintain it all under a segregationist governor and the debt they carried. Despite systemic struggles, the organization still remains today, resilient and active as a 501(c)(4) organization.
The community land trust is a model that United Workers used as a foundation to establish the Affordable Housing Trust Fund through organizing a ballot initiative in Baltimore. United Workers, among the Energy Justice Network and the Institute for Local Self Reliance, also fights for a zero-waste future to ultimately shut down the incinerators and landfills that pollute the air and the earth, intentionally placed in majority-Black communities.
In alignment with zero-waste goals, the Baltimore Compost Collective increases composting in South Baltimore and regenerates food scraps into life-giving soil, or Black gold as founder Marvin Hayes calls it. Baltimore City Office of Sustainability runs free, public food scraps drop off sites at farmers’ markets — in Waverly on 32nd St on Saturdays 8–12pm and the Baltimore Farmers’ Market and Bazaar downtown from 7–12pm.
Looking at the past work of Black, Indigenous, and people of color is a practice that allows us to recognize the roots of where food sovereignty work has come from. This is a de-colonial and “unsettling” practice. Within this context, we are encourages by Black organizations in Baltimore that are on the front-lines of fighting food insecurity during COVID-19 today. These same communities have been responsible for the success and growth of our food system for centuries.
This week, we encourage you to take action by learning. As our gears continue to turn and make connections that bring us to cultivating justice in our practices, honor your own journey of uncovering truth in your mind, and honor the work that has been paved by revolutionary BIPOC folks.
Generations of farmers, cultivators, revolutionaries have laid a pathway, sowed the seeds, and grown a flourishing environment that is a safe space for us to do the work of educating ourselves to ultimately liberate our mindsets. Give thanks, cherish, and absorb it all.
For our next Stories to Support, we will be featuring the work of the Black Yield Institute in Cherry Hill, with more hands-on action items that Baltimore can support and learn about their work.
Organizations in Baltimore working on food access in response to COVID-19
Resources referenced throughout the article can be found here.
Resources on BIPOC food sovereignty, as referenced throughout the article.
Thank you to the Stories to Support team for contributing to this piece.
Written by Clarissa Chen
Research by Clarissa Chen and Hannah Correlli
Edited by Hannah Correlli, Shawn Gunaratne, Kate Lynch, Jasir Qiydaar, and Hess Stinson
Ideation by Clarissa Chen, Hannah Correlli, Colby Sangree
Project Waves is Addressing the Digital Divide in Baltimore
Jul 7 · 3 min read
“The United Nations declared access to the internet to be a human right, and we are working to fulfill that right in Baltimore.” Adam Bouhmad, founder of Project Waves.
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, many residents of Baltimore have been completely dependent on the internet to meet their daily needs. This may take the form of ordering groceries online to minimize exposure, studying for a school assignment, or simply working remotely to have a steady income. Access to a stable internet connection has become a human need to function and prosper in our current society now more than ever.
This pandemic has illuminated many inequities in our current society, one of them being the digital divide. According to a recent Abell Foundation report, almost 2 in 5 households in Baltimore do not have a wireline internet service, including cable, fiber or digital subscriber line service, which is roughly 96,000 households around the city.
To address this inequity, Project Waves is working to install internet access points on Baltimore rooftops. Founded by Baltimore native Adam Bouhmad, Project Wave’s pay-what-you-can system has a goal of connecting 350 households by the end of 2020. So far, they’ve connected 35 households to date.
The intentional human-centered process begins with introducing its mission to communities within Baltimore, and once invited, the team installs internet access points for all families and organizations who express interest.
“ We are trying to work with communities to provide something we believe is very important, which is access to the internet. I see that as access to information and I wholeheartedly believe that is a human right,” said Bouhmad, “our whole model is tackling the issue up front and working with communities in actually bridging these inequities.” “We are not trying to build the next Comcast, and we are not trying to build this monolith.”
Families participating in the program can also elect to share their internet to anyone in range of the WiFi, and in many neighborhoods, these have become de facto WIFI hotspots. The community internet service provider (ISP) is currently installed in the neighborhoods of Sharp Leadenhall, Park Heights, UMB Community Engagement Center, Lakeland, Hollins Market, and Lakeland.
Project Waves recently received grant funding from the Abell Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The staff is growing exponentially. A micro team at the beginning of 2019, has now turned into 13 full time employees.
COVID-19 has highlighted many inequities in our city, which has also shined a spotlight on the people willing to address them head-on, even during a pandemic. Adam Bouhmad and the Project Waves Team continue to fight for internet access throughout Baltimore, one family at a time.
How Can You Support Project Waves?
Check out their website or email contact@projectwaves.net
Want to Learn More About Digital Equity in Baltimore?
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Stories to Support: Arts & Learning Snacks!
Jul 1 · 5 min read
In the wake of COVID-19, Young Audiences Arts For Learning, Maryland & FutureMakers have been busy passing out 18,000 snacks to children at meal distribution centers around Baltimore City.
Their snacks aren’t edible though, instead, they’re creatively-named free art kits that youth and their families can use to build a variety of projects at home during the pandemic. This initiative’s full name is Arts & Learning Snacks!, and it’s a collaborative effort between the two youth arts organizations to provide equitable art education to Baltimore youth and their families who may not have internet access at home.
When COVID-19 struck, and stay at home orders went into effect, teachers around Baltimore (and the world) were forced to shift their lessons online - but not every student was able to access them. As Stacie Sanders Evans, President and CEO of Maryland’s Young Audiences chapter notes, “Everybody was moving very quickly into virtual learning but there were so many families that didn’t have devices at [that] point.”
This inequitable reality is an example of the digital divide: a term that describes the gap between those who have access to the internet & internet-connected devices, and those who do not. As the pandemic has made so many of us reliant on these resources to work, learn, and communicate, this inequity has been brought to light in an unprecedented way.
Home internet access is even more essential than normal during this time, however in Baltimore City, it’s not guaranteed. According to the 2018 American Community Survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau, “…96,000 households in Baltimore (40.7%) did not have wireline internet service, such as cable, fiber, or digital subscriber line service.” The same report also references a figure showing that 1 in 3 Baltimore City households lack a laptop or desktop computer.
With such a large number of homes lacking these essentials, it was important for the team at Young Audiences & FutureMakers to come up with an initiative that could serve as a form of arts education that families could enjoy, regardless of the digital resources they have at home.
“One of our artists, Matt Barinhotlz from FutureMakers, had this idea of basically creating…arts/creativity kits and distributing them at meal sites,” Evans explains. These sites are repurposed Baltimore City Public Schools with an established system of distributing resources to food-insecure families, who Young Audiences & FutureMakers especially wanted to reach. This choice also had the bonus of helping them come up with a unique name for their project.
After initially calling the art packets “kits” (a name whose similarity to “kids” caused some confusion in the early days), the group started to search for a new name. They decided “snacks” would be a better fit because the small art packets would supplement the meals families needed during the pandemic.
Snacks! include all the materials needed to create art projects, which can range from lumps of clay to cardboard as well as paper instructions written in English & Spanish. Online, Young Audiences’ website hosts videos with step-by-step instructions on how to complete the projects, ensuring youth can enjoy their art project whether they have internet access or a device at home or not.
While the need to provide equitable arts education is the driving force of this project, it has another added benefit. Many of Young Audiences’ teaching artists, who are all independent contractors and typically do residencies, assemblies, and other face-to-face engagements were suddenly left without work in the wake of COVID-19. This project gave these artists an opportunity to work assembling the Snacks! under strict safety guidelines, as well as delivering them to distribution sites and handing them out to families. As Cat Brooks, Program & School Relationship Coordinator at Young Audiences says, “….we [had] these artists that we care very much about in this very precarious position, so this was also a good way for us to be able to pay our artists.”
This project is just one of Young Audiences’ initiatives for promoting education for Baltimore’s youth in an equitable way during this pandemic. They’ve also created an educational television series called Arts & Learning Kids that airs every weekend on Baltimore City Schools’ public access TV channel and produced digital content that will be available to students around the city.
With the success of the Arts & Learning Snacks! program, which includes plans to distribute 4,000 Arts & Learning Snacks! in St. Louis in June, Young Audiences & FutureMakers are looking to expand their work and continue feeding young people’s minds in Baltimore & beyond.
Thank you to fellow Stories to Support collaborators Kate Lynch for coordinating the interview used in this piece and providing research, and Andrea Stennett for editing this piece.
How Can You Help Young Audiences & FutureMakers?
Request Arts & Learning Snacks! for your community by contacting: Cat Brooks, Program & School Relationship Coordinator: cat@yamd.org
Volunteer to help Young Audiences’ Summer Arts & Learning Academy, which will be using Arts & Learning Snacks!
Using the hashtag #YAMDkids on social media & connecting with Young Audiences (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) & FutureMakers (Instagram, Facebook)
To connect with more resources, check out the Baltimore Corps COVID-19 Resource Guide and stay tuned for the next installment of Stories to Support.
Do you know of an initiative responding to COVID-19 as a racial equity issue? Complete our Google Form to potentially be featured on Stories to Support!