“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.
“We want Baltimore City youth to blow everybody out of the water with their talent, their ideas and their ability to be just as good as students who have had incredible access to opportunity their entire lives.” - Charlotte James, Baltimore Corps Fellow at Code in the Schools
Read (and watch the video) about Charlotte's work to close the digital divide for Baltimore City youth on ABC2:
Educator champions the importance of tech innovation for city youth
"It is not hard to explain why the nation's focus has shifted so staggeringly towards STEM given the global stakes, the opportunities, and the fundamental shift in how we as a country are doing business. What is difficult, however, is capturing this tidal force of resources and energy in an equitable fashion that will provide the best outcomes for all youth."
Paul Mincarelli, Baltimore Corps Fellow at the Maryland Out of School Time Network, kicks off our Fellows' blog collection with this piece in the Huffington Post:
