“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.
At Light City, Fagan Harris and Venture for America's Andrew Yang spoke about how Baltimore is becoming a destination for change makers. Read a recap of their conversation in the Baltimore Business Journal:
Baltimore's problems are attracting change-maker millennials
"What does collective impact look like? It looks like empowering talented leaders and their initiatives with the tools and technology they need to collaborate more effectively." - Liz Gomez
Liz, our Director of Operations, wrote an entry for the Salesforce blog about the intersection of systems and social impact. Read her full post below:
Collective Impact: No Longer a Myth with Salesforce Communities
As part of its largest pledge ever, the T. Rowe Price Foundation is partnering with Baltimore Corps and Maryland Nonprofits to strengthen local leadership and organizational capacity. Read the full story in the Baltimore Business Journal:
T. Rowe Price Foundation donating $1.3M to West Baltimore, organization's largest-ever pledge
"[Baltimore] is a town that's incredibly resilient, and it's a town that's had a lot of challenges for a long time. Because we've had to endure and tackle those, I think in many ways people have stopped seeing them just as challenges, but also opportunities." - Fagan Harris
Listen to Fagan's complete interview with The Sun's Dan Rodricks in which they discuss social enterprises like CUPs Coffeehouse, the power of Millennials and why Baltimore is "the best place in the world to change the world."
Building safe spaces for kids to play, creating jobs for local youth and energizing thousands of volunteers: Play More B'More puts kids first in Baltimore.
Learn more about Play More B'More, and why play matters, in this new video featuring Baltimore Corps' Cirron Greenidge and Fagan Harris:
