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DECEMBER 2021

  • Link to virtual Biennial Community Gathering celebration including announcement of leadership changes in Baltimore and Hawai‘i 

  • Explore the Foundation’s new interactive online grants database and digital map

  • Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative provides learning opportunities for more than 6,700 youth

  • YWCA Evanston/North Shore doubles capacity with new family support center

  • United Way of Central Maryland launches an expanded 211 call center system

  • CollegeBound Foundation increases number of students attending college after high school

  • Supporting community resilience through a second emergency COVID response

  • ARPA’s $350 billion opportunity and what philanthropy can do

  • More than $9 million in recent grants announced  

 
Link to virtual Biennial Community Gathering celebration including   announcement of leadership changes in Baltimore and Hawai‘i

Last month, the Weinberg Foundation celebrated its Biennial Community Gathering virtually. This year’s live online program featured a conversation with featured speaker, Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer; remarks from Dr. Erica Brown, Associate Professor and Director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership at The George Washington University; and a spoken word video from Weinberg Foundation grantees DewMore Baltimore and Wide Angle Youth Media. 

 

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Explore the Foundation’s new interactive online grants database and digital map

The Weinberg Foundation has launched a new, interactive two-part website feature! The online grants database, which features selected grants of $50,000 or more approved since 2018 can be found here. This new database allows you to search by organization name or keyword, as well as filter by focus area, priority community, year, grant type, and more.

 

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Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative provides learning opportunities for more than 6,700 youth

The Weinberg Foundation is a proud co-founder of the Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative (SFC), a partnership between public, private, corporate, and nonprofit institutions working to expand summer enrichment opportunities for young people in Baltimore City. This past summer, which marked the seventh year of the SFC, partners committed $3,460,000 in funding, which fully or partially funded 83 summer programs serving more than 6,700 youth. The SFC was also able to provide an additional 3,000 youth with sports and recreational equipment. 

 

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YWCA Evanston/North Shore doubles capacity with new family support center

In Chicago, Weinberg Foundation grantee YWCA Evanston/North Shore doubles capacity for women seeking refuge from domestic violence with its newly constructed family support center. 

 

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United Way of Central Maryland launches an expanded 211 call center system

Weinberg Foundation grantee United Way of Central Maryland has launched its expanded 211 call center system. In partnership with the Baltimore City Health Department, the expanded system will better coordinate case management for older adults by connecting calls to Baltimore City’s Maryland Access Point (MAP). 

 

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CollegeBound Foundation increases number of students attending college after high school

Baltimore’s CollegeBound Foundation, a Weinberg Foundation grantee, increases the number of students attending college after high school, resulting in the commitment from three public high schools to invest in their own on-site college advisors for the first time. 

 

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Supporting community resilience through a second emergency COVID response

In August and September, the COVID-19 Delta variant disproportionally impacted Hawaiʻi’s rural and Native Hawaiian communities. These communities also hold the key to innovative, sustainable solutions for food security, as well as health and wellness. The Weinberg Foundation was grateful to provide three grants to support emergency response, which helped secure government funding and paved the way for longer-term solutions.

 

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ARPA’s $350 billion opportunity and what philanthropy can do

Did you miss our latest blog? Weinberg Foundation program director Darius Graham shares ways funders can support their communities in getting the most from the American Rescue Plan Act's State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.

 

This piece was originally published by Philanthropy News Digest. 
 

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 More than $9 million in recent grants announced

The Weinberg Foundation recently approved more than 30 grants totaling $9 million supporting the areas of Housing, Health, Jobs, Education, and Community Services.  

 

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The Weinberg Foundation also produces a Hawaiʻi-focused e-news. If you would like to see that e-news, please click here.

 
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