“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.
"Broken laws shouldn't lead to broken families, yet they do."
Our Brand Manager Meryam Bouadjemi's deeply personal op-ed in The Baltimore Sun about how public policies should, but often fail to protect the vulnerable and voiceless:
Chasing After Parents in Police Cars
Congratulations to two Baltimore Corps pioneers: Brian Gerardo (Class One Fellow) and Meryam Boudjemi (our Brand Manager) were both named 2015 Open Society Institute-BaltimoreCommunity Fellows. Read about the entire 2015 class here: announcement. Meryam and Brian are in good company, joining Class One Baltimore Corps Fellow and 2011 Baltimore Community Fellow, Jill Pardini.
For more on their specific projects, you can visit the OSI profile pages for both Meryam and Brian.
For our recruitment materials (created by our Brand Manager, Meryam Bouadjemi), Baltimore Corps was included in this list of "5 Incredible Campaigns And What You Can Learn From Them":
