Highlighting Spark Stories!
Baltimore Corps is thrilled to be celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year! During 10 years of impact, Baltimore Corps has built robust, equitable pipelines to enlist talent in advancing Baltimore City’s most promising social innovations. The people in our organization and network make our decade’s worth of work possible. Activating local talent into leadership roles that serve their community has always been a core mission of Baltimore Corps.
As part of our 10-year anniversary celebrations, we invited Baltimore Corps staff and network members to share the ‘spark’ that led each of them to a career in service. We hope these Spark Stories will introduce you to some of the people that have been working behind the scenes at Baltimore Corps and City Corps, and that they might spark a love for service in others! This month, we would like to introduce one of our Baltimore Corps Fellowship program alumni, Stephanie Alphee.
Click below to read the full interview about Stephanie’s commitment to service and community in Baltimore.
Baltimore Corps is thrilled to be celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year! During 10 years of impact, Baltimore Corps has built robust, equitable pipelines to enlist talent in advancing Baltimore City’s most promising social innovations. The people in our organization and network make our decade’s worth of work possible. Activating local talent into leadership roles that serve their community has always been a core mission of Baltimore Corps.
As part of our 10-year anniversary celebrations, we invited Baltimore Corps staff and network members to share the ‘spark’ that led each of them to a career in service. We hope these Spark Stories will introduce you to some of the people that have been working behind the scenes at Baltimore Corps and City Corps, and that they might spark a love for service in others! This month, we would like to introduce one of our Baltimore Corps Fellowship program alumni, Derrell Frazier.
Click below to read the full interview about Derrell Frazier’s personal experience leading to a career in service, and his vision for Baltimore!
Baltimore Corps is thrilled to be celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year! During 10 years of impact, Baltimore Corps has built robust, equitable pipelines to enlist talent in advancing Baltimore City’s most promising social innovations. The people in our organization and network make our decade’s worth of work possible. Activating local talent into leadership roles that serve their community has always been a core mission of Baltimore Corps.
As part of our 10-year anniversary celebrations, we invited Baltimore Corps staff and network members to share the ‘spark’ that led each of them to a career in service. We hope these Spark Stories will introduce you to some of the people that have been working behind the scenes at Baltimore Corps and City Corps, and that they might spark a love for service in others! Each month we will feature a new story, and this month, we would like to introduce you to a recent alumni of our Elevation Awards program, Omari Jeremiah.
Click below to read the full interview about Omari Jeremiah’s personal experience leading to a career in service, and his vision for Baltimore!
Baltimore Corps is thrilled to be celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year! During 10 years of impact, Baltimore Corps has built robust, equitable pipelines to enlist talent in advancing Baltimore City’s most promising social innovations. The people in our organization and network make our decade’s worth of work possible. Activating local talent into leadership roles that serve their community has always been a core mission of Baltimore Corps.
As part of our 10-year anniversary celebrations, we invited Baltimore Corps staff and network members to share the ‘spark’ that led each of them to a career in service. We hope these Spark Stories will introduce you to some of the people that have been working behind the scenes at Baltimore Corps and City Corps, and that they might spark a love for service in others! Each month we will feature a new story, and this month, we would like to introduce one of Baltimore Corps’ Board Members, Tracey Barbour-Gillett.
Click below to read the full interview about Tracey Barbour-Gillett’s personal experience leading to a career in service, and her vision for Baltimore!
Baltimore Corps is thrilled to be celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year! During 10 years of impact, Baltimore Corps has built robust, equitable pipelines to enlist talent in advancing Baltimore City’s most promising social innovations. The people in our organization and network make our decade’s worth of work possible. Activating local talent into leadership roles that serve their community has always been a core mission of Baltimore Corps.
As part of our 10-year anniversary celebrations, we invited Baltimore Corps staff and network members to share the ‘spark’ that led each of them to a career in service. We hope these Spark Stories will introduce you to some of the people that have been working behind the scenes at Baltimore Corps and City Corps, and that they might spark a love for service in others! Each month we will feature a new story, and this month, we would like to introduce our Artist Navigator Associate, Terrell Brown.
Click below to read the full interview about Terrell Brown’s
life-long connection to service in Baltimore and his love for community.
Baltimore Corps is thrilled to be celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year! During 10 years of impact, Baltimore Corps has built robust, equitable pipelines to enlist talent in advancing Baltimore City’s most promising social innovations. The people in our organization and network make our decade’s worth of work possible. Activating local talent into leadership roles that serve their community has always been a core mission of Baltimore Corps.
As part of our 10-year anniversary celebrations, we invited Baltimore Corps staff and network members to share the ‘spark’ that led each of them to a career in service. We hope these Spark Stories will introduce you to some of the people that have been working behind the scenes at Baltimore Corps and City Corps, and that they might spark a love for service in others! Each month we will feature a new story, and this month, we start with an interview of our Interim President and CEO of City Corps, Sarah Flammang!
Click below to read the full interview about Sarah Flammang’s
personal experience leading to a career in service, and her vision for Baltimore!
Baltimore Corps is thrilled to be celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year! During 10 years of impact, Baltimore Corps has built robust, equitable pipelines to enlist talent in advancing Baltimore City’s most promising social innovations. The people in our organization and network make our decade’s worth of work possible. Activating local talent into leadership roles that serve their community has always been a core mission of Baltimore Corps.
As part of our 10-year anniversary celebrations, we invited Baltimore Corps staff and network members to share the ‘spark’ that led each of them to a career in service. We hope these Spark Stories will introduce you to some of the people that have been working behind the scenes at Baltimore Corps and City Corps, and that they might spark a love for service in others! Each month we will feature a new story, and this month, we start with an interview of our new Executive Director of Baltimore Corps, Tamara Arnold.
Click below to read the full interview about Tamara Arnold’s
personal experience leading to a career in service, and her vision for Baltimore!
PRESS UPDATES
Baltimore Corps Announces New Leadership,
Promoting Two Veteran Leaders
Each of the nonprofit’s top executive positions now held by women.
(BALTIMORE – Jan. 24, 2023) Baltimore Corps’ Board of Directors announced today the promotion of two veteran leaders: Tamara Arnold was promoted to executive director of Baltimore Corps and Sarah Flammang was named Interim President and CEO of City Corps. Both Arnold and Flammang began their new roles on Jan. 18.
The change in leadership marks the first time new leaders are at the helm in Baltimore Corps’ near 10-year history. Founding president and CEO Fagan Harris stepped down from his role to serve as the chief of staff for Gov. Wes Moore.
Following years of rapid growth including expanding nationally through City Corps, Baltimore Corps Board Chair Matt Gallagher said the transition provided an opportunity to create a leadership structure that better supports the nonprofit’s strategic direction.
BALTIMORE CORPS ANNOUNCES PLANS TO SHARE MODEL FOR SERVICE WITH CITIES, COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE NATION
(BALTIMORE – June 7, 2022) – Baltimore Corps today announced plans for sharing its model for service with other cities and communities throughout the nation as the nonprofit prepares to officially launch City Corps, with its first-ever expansion site in Birmingham, Alabama this month.
City Corps is a national platform for Baltimore Corps to share its model for service and essential practices. Fagan Harris, the nonprofit’s founder and CEO, says the decision behind City Corps builds on 10 years of proven experience creating pathways to high-mobility careers.
“Cities are a great source of untapped talent living in places that are chronically overwhelmed by our biggest challenges while also being historically underfunded,” Harris said. “Baltimore Corps has been doing this work for a long time, and we’re ready and excited to share our more equitable model for service with other cities across the U.S. as well as lessons we have learned.”
Edisha Brandy
CFO and VP of Technology and Measurment
Karon McFarlane
COO
Baltimore Corps Calls for True and Meaningful Diversity in Nonprofit Leadership Roles
Karon McFarlane, Edisha Brandy assume top leadership positions within the organization
(BALTIMORE – May 26, 2022) Baltimore Corps has announced the recent promotions of Karon McFarlane to chief operations officer and Edisha Brandy to chief finance officer and vice president of Technology and Measurement. Fagan Harris, Baltimore Corps CEO, hopes the decision to elevate two “highly-qualified, deeply experienced Black women” to major leadership positions (with McFarlane now serving as second-in-command) motivates other nonprofit organizations in Baltimore and beyond to do the same.
“At Baltimore Corps, we deeply believe in the power and purpose of diversity and inclusion. Representation matters and is a good first step, but communities of color deserve a decision-making seat at the table here in Baltimore and across the nation,” Harris said.
“This kind of hiring and promotion is more than just ‘box-checking’ on diversity. We are proud to lead by example and challenge other organizations and corporations to do the same.”
The Campaign for Citywide Service is a collaborative, multi-year effort to transform service learning in our city. At Baltimore Corps, we work toward population-level change by engaging the community in service programs that center equity and innovation. Over the past year, we partnered with government and nonprofit leaders to take an honest look at what matters most, from the programs we run to the impact of our work. This led us to expand and double down on our core mission: when members of our community are looking to turn service into a career, Baltimore Corps is committed to providing the first open door.
The Campaign for Citywide Service was born out of this commitment.
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NEWS
David Nevins Interviews Tamara Arnold, Executive Director with Baltimore Corps
Source: Citybiz
Fagan Harris, CEO of Baltimore Corps, has been selected as a Leader In Diversity 2021
Source: Baltimore Business Journal
In creating a path to public service, Baltimore Corps has been recognized as one of the best places to work in the city by Baltimore Business Journal
Source: Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore scales up contact tracing by putting jobless residents back to work
Source: Bloomberg Cities
Baltimore Corps helped sponsor and organize a vaccination clinic for the Kevin L. Cooper Foundation through our Senior Hub Lead, Sarah Matthews
Source: CBS Baltimore
Baltimore: Fighting Covid-19, Joblessness and Inequity with One Innovative Project
Source: The Rockefeller Foundation
After scaling back due to COVID, Baltimore’s YouthWorks program welcomes some teens back to in-person jobs this summer
Source: Baltimore Sun
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