“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.
Kaetlyn plays a key role in operating a lending program that will deliver the kiva.org program to local entrepreneurs through various partnerships. She focuses on serving and growing the Kiva impact within Baltimore Corps’ network and across Baltimore City.
Please visit baltimorecorps.org/kiva for more information.
For five years, the Baltimore City Health Department has partnered with Baltimore Corps to place Fellows with strong interests in public health into various areas of the Department. Baltimore Corps was founded in 2013 by Baltimore natives, Fagan Harris and Wes Moore, to find the most talented people to work on solving the City’s most important problems.
Our last of the 3 borrowers from the #KivaBaltimorePitchCompetition, Rickisha White, owner of Simply Elegance Studio has been fully funded.
