A PLACE FOR PURPOSE

A Message from Our President & CEO

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Caryn York CEO of Baltimore CorpsI am proud to serve as President & CEO of Baltimore Corps. Our organization celebrates the best of Baltimore’s brilliance, working to elevate homegrown human capital and bolster the business and public sectors that rely and thrive on it. As we prepare for the holiday season and New Year, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude for your partnership and support and share a preview of what’s to come in 2025.

Thanks to partners, funders, and key stakeholders, Baltimore Corps has reimagined talent development for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) professionals; made critical investments in emerging Black-owned businesses; and facilitated problem-solving partnerships between government and business – all for over a decade.

But change is on the horizon, and I want to recognize and address the challenges before us given the evolving national political landscape.

Here’s what we should expect:

  • Challenges to Baltimore Corps’s equitable approaches to workforce development and unapologetic focus on removing barriers for local BIPOC talent to access impactful careers.
  • Questions about how Baltimore Corps deploys capital to emerging Black-owned businesses who struggle to access capital from more traditional networks.
  • A protracted fight to protect federal funding for Baltimore Corps’s programs and initiatives that focus on advancing opportunities for working-class communities of color.

Concerningly, if plans for mass layoffs and agency closures come to pass, we can expect a workforce crisis impacting one in three federal workers in the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia). With 160,000 civilian federal jobs (paying a total of $25 billion in wages) at risk for Maryland, the consequences could be dire for residents and state coffers.

Given the uncertainty these dynamics create, Baltimore Corps’s resolve to double down on and expand our mission-driven work of leveraging talent to strengthen civic and community infrastructure is stronger than ever. As someone who understands the business case for the work needed to ensure the economic security, stability, and viability of our Black-owned businesses and workers, we invite you to join us in supporting our work of positioning Baltimore City as the national model for advancing the interests of our city’s underestimated and underrecognized residents.

Thank you for your interest, involvement, and support.

In community,

Caryn York
President & CEO

 

 

¹Maryland ranks fourth in the country for the most federal jobs according to a recent accounting by Maryland’s Department of Legislative Services.

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Stay tuned for what’s to come! In the meantime, you can reach us at development@baltimorecorps.org or (443) 264-8203.