“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.
Central Baltimore Partnership – a community vision plan entitled Front and Center: A Five‐Year Equity Plan for Central Baltimore, was created to remove social and economic barriers and build an inclusive, equitable Central Baltimore where all low- and middle‐income families benefit from redevelopment.
Check out this opED co written by Mara James, Fellowship Cohort 5
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.nasw-md.org/resource/resmgr/2019stuff/nasw_winter2019_final_lr.pdf
The University of Maryland School of Social Work and Baltimore Child Abuse Center hosted a screening of the film "Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope," a documentary about the biology of Adverse Child Experiences and efforts in public health, education, and medicine to prevent and treat childhood trauma. Following the screening, representatives of nonprofit and community-based organizations, as well as city and state agencies, spoke about their youth trauma efforts in a panel discussion. Baltimore Corps Fellow and Special Assistant to the Commissioner, Kathleen Goodwin, represented the work of the Baltimore City Health Department. [via BmoreHealthy newsletter]
