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Unfinished Business: Lessons From Baltimore
By Timothy D. Armbruster
I have had the great good fortune to spend the past thirty years, nearly half my lifetime, working on many of the social and economic challenges that bear upon the Baltimore region and its central city in particular.
Earlier this year, my board of directors encouraged me to share what this three decade journey has taught me about approaching the many challenges confronting this community and how we think about the Foundation’s place in the civic mosaic. This essay is the result.
It has two parts. The first is about lessons learned over many years in philanthropy and one foundation’s approach to its work. The second is about what this experience has taught me about urban communities and some ways to think about positioning Baltimore for greater economic competitiveness and social progress.
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Unfinished Business: Lessons From Baltimore
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August 29, 2011 -- The following opinion column appeared in the Baltimore Sun on August 29, 2011: click here.
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January 20, 2011 -- The Goldseker Foundation recently invited Jacqueline Edelberg, author of How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance, to Baltimore. Jacqueline spent two days visiting with groups of parents and school and neighborhood leaders, sharing her experience working with a small group of parents in Chicago to transform their local public school, previously rejected by the surrounding community, into an asset for families in their Chicago neighborhood. Listen to Jacqueline’s interview with WYPR’s “Midday” host Dan Rodricks here.
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May 17, 2010 -- Karen Stokes, Executive Director of Greater Homewood Community Corporation, spoke on WYPR’s “Midday” with host Dan Rodricks about how the Healthy Neighborhoods and Neighborhood School Partnership initiatives are making living in Baltimore City increasingly attractive to middleclass families and households. To hear the conversation, please click here.
Neighborhood-School Partnership Grants Press Release
February 26, 2010 -- Recognizing the interdependence of neighborhoods and schools—the quality of one directly impacting the quality of the other—the Goldseker Foundation today announced grants to five Neighborhood-School Partnerships in Baltimore City totaling $435,000. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore City Public School CEO Dr. Andrés Alonso, Catholic Schools Associate Superintendent Dr. Skipp Sanders, and Healthy Neighborhoods Inc. President Mark Sissman joined Goldseker Foundation President Dr. Timothy Armbruster to announce the grants during an event at one of the partner schools, Calvin M. Rodwell Elementary School. For the full text of the press release, click here.