“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.
“The 20 in Their Twenties honorees are part of a new generation of leaders who are highly motivated, socially conscious and expert multitaskers who incorporate technology and community building into all aspects of their lives.”
Congratulations to Baltimore Corps CEO, Fagan Harris, and all the other honorees on this year's list:
The number of youths detained in adult jails has declined significantly, but those who remain face harsh conditions. Rais Akbar, Baltimore Corps Fellow at Advocates for Children and Youth, supplies his perspective with a quote in this Baltimore Sun article:
Baltimore jail faulted for harsh treatment of youth detainees
"We have lived with some hard problems for a very, very long time. So long, in fact, that we have moved from viewing them as problems to opportunities." Watch Fagan's entire address here:
Rais was a guest on the recent episode of the Marc Steiner Show entitled, "Should Police Carry Guns in Public Schools?" Listen to the Rais here:
What if we could provide students around the country with training and access to cutting edge technology just by "paying it forward?" Check out the brilliant work our Visionary Cause Leaders at Digital Harbor Foundation are doing through the Perpetual Innovation Fund. You can read more here: http://www.digitalharbor.org/perpetual-innovation-fund/.
