Motor House is celebrating 10 years with a whole weekend of events celebrating Baltimore arts and fashion, from workshops to a runway show. Watch this TV interview with its new Managing Director, Jessica Smith!
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After a car crashed through the front doors of Motor House last month, the Baltimore arts hub is holding a series of events to raise money for repairs and celebrate its 10th anniversary. Baltimore Arts Realty Corporation (BARCO), the nonprofit that runs Motor House, will hold two rent parties.
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Through a partnership with the Maryland Community Investment Corporation, more than $1 millions in grants from philanthropic partners have been approved for the Support Fund. These organizations include the Goldseker Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Abell Foundation, the Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund, the Middendorf Foundation, and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.
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Organizations including the Goldseker Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Abell Foundation, the Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund, the Middendorf Foundation, and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation are supporting the Baltimore Vacants Reinvestment Initiative Support Fund.
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A native of Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood and a graduate of Morgan State University, Hopkins brings seventeen years of experience as a community leader, organizer, and pastor. He most recently served as co-chair of Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), an organization building community power to improve housing, increase job opportunities, and rebuild schools and neighborhoods.
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According to a report released Wednesday, there are spots for only half of Baltimore children under 5 at local, regulated early childhood education programs. The first years are even harder: There’s capacity to serve just 20% of the city’s infants, according to the Baltimore City Early Care and Education Landscape Analysis, which brings together hard-to-gather data on conditions for children ages 0 to 5 in Baltimore.
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Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development, the community group that organized Sunday’s event, said in a news release its new private sector partners plan to “organize a significant private capital fund that will leverage the public funds already committed. This private investment will be critical to rebuilding housing markets in neighborhoods broken by the legacy of redlining.”
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The $5.5 million project, led by ReBUILD Metro, will reconfigure 23 existing houses into 10 new, for-sale units. The redesign will reduce crowding and add more parking space. “Obviously, the state is a huge funder on this,” said Sean Closkey, president of ReBUILD Metro. “The Weinberg Foundation, the Goldseker Foundation, the Abell Foundation, Robert W Deutsch Foundation, have made sure we can do the hard work that's needed.”
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Some donations came at critical moments and literally kept us afloat. Our first big contribution came from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation in Baltimore, in the fall of 2017, when I had just been blogging for a few months. Jane Brown, the foundation’s executive director, is a former journalist. I was stunned that she had so much faith in us then, and she has been a resolute supporter ever since. Bless you, Jane!
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Read More“High-speed internet for $20 per month is not just about access,” said Gretchen Legrand, Senior Program Manager for Digital Equity at the Deutsch Foundation. “It’s about creating communities where residents and businesses thrive in a digitally connected ecosystem.”
Lerman is a dance legend, choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker. She was named the first Institute Professor at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in 2016. A former fellow of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Lerman is currently a fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at ASU.
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Coppin State University is partnering with Open Works, a Baltimore nonprofit, to create a makerspace in West Baltimore that could be a new economic engine for the area. Open Works signed an agreement with the historically Black university to open the makerspace, a facility where people can experiment with manufacturing equipment like 3-D printers or welding gear.
Read MoreEvery investor weighs the balance of risk versus reward and few want to be the first one in on the ground floor, no matter how impactful — or lucrative — the opportunity might be. Impact investing is no different, but, fortunately, the market in Baltimore is proven. The Abell Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and Straus Foundation pioneered the field decades ago, while the Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF) became involved in the past five years and has mobilized a network of co-investors. Together, we are providing patient capital for programs and projects that center residents’ own visions for their community and catalyze complementary, private investment.
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On November 10, 2022, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation hosted a Baltimore Digital Equity Showcase. The event featured grantees from our digital equity portfolio who spoke about the digital equity work they were leading; examples included the development of a technology hub, expanding connectivity to outdoor spaces, renovating technology for maker spaces, and more.
Read MoreFor more than a decade Ebstein has centered her career as an artist, curator, and spacemaker in Baltimore’s art community. She founded and co-directed three artist-run galleries between 2009 and 2021 and has focused her efforts on garnering national attention for artists working in the Baltimore area. Most recently, she served as the Director of Exhibitions and Curator at Goucher College.
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The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation is thrilled to announce the twenty-seven participants selected for our third Digital Equity Leadership Lab (DELL) Cohort. DELL is a seven-week program designed for city residents who want to increase their understanding of the internet and strengthen their ability to advocate for fast, affordable, and reliable broadband for all of Baltimore’s neighborhoods.
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The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation (RWDF) has teamed with the Central Baltimore Partnership (CBP) to launch The Mac MacLure Spirit of Leadership Award, to recognize and celebrate exemplary community leadership.
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Today, the Robert W. Deutsch Center is pleased to release, "The Digital Equity Leadership Lab: A Case Study of Community Leadership Development to Promote Digital Equity and Justice.” A paper researched and authored by Dr. Colin Rhinesmith Ph.D, with design by Raquel Castedo, Ph.D. The paper explores the impact of DELL, a program for city residents who want to increase their understanding of the internet and strengthen their ability to advocate for fast, affordable and reliable broadband for all of Baltimore’s neighborhoods.
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In 2021, the Foundation launched the Digital Equity Leadership Lab, a foundation-designed-and-led program for city residents who want to increase their understanding of the internet and strengthen their capacity to advocate for fast, affordable and reliable broadband for all of Baltimore’s neighborhoods. To date, over 50 individuals have graduated from this program.
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