The Hunt Valley-based Peak Wealth Management Group at UBS is partnering with NBA star Kyrie Irving and the KAI Empowerment Initiative to help women who have opted out of the 2020 WNBA season because of COVID-19 concerns with a financial ...

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Howard County General Hospital is bringing COVID-19 testing to neighborhoods in Columbia with tests at two churches. Testing will be done at St. John Baptist Church, 9055 Tamar Drive, beginning July 25 from 8 a.m. to noon. Additional dates are ...

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Dunkirk-based Patriot Spaces is shipping storage containers that have been converted for use as medical stations or other related applications to hospitals in Maryland, Ohio and California to help meet the growing need for hospital and testing facilities because of ...

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GLEN BURNIE — About 100,000 pounds of food and two cars were given to community members at a relief event held by a church in Maryland. Hundreds of people showed up at i5 City Church in Glen Burnie Sunday for ...

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Howard County General Hospital will offer free COVID-19 community testing in places of worship throughout Howard County. The first testing event will take place Sunday from 8 to 11 a.m. at Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal M.I. at 6798 Oak Hall ...

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Tuerk House, a nonprofit drug and alcohol treatment system serving the most disadvantaged members of the greater Baltimore community, has been awarded a signature grant of $700,000 from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations ...

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Landover-based regional grocery chain Giant Food Tuesday donated $1,208,846 to the USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore for COVID-19 recovery efforts. For the fifth consecutive year, USO-Metro served as one of the main charity beneficiaries of the 2020 Giant National Capital Barbecue ...

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Breweries throughout Maryland are uniting to release a collection of one-off beers, raise funds for Brewers Association of Maryland (BAM), the state’s craft beer trade association The effort, dubbed “Brew for BAM,” includes each participating brewery brewing a beer showcasing ...

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Salisbury-based Perdue Farms has delivered more than 1.5 million pounds of protein to food banks and hunger-relief efforts through its “Delivering Hope To Our Neighbors” hunger-relief initiative, exceeding its commitment to donate a minimum of 1 million pounds of protein to ...

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UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group company, is awarding $1 million in Empowering Health grants to eight community-based organizations in Maryland to expand access to care and address the social determinants of health for uninsured individuals and underserved communities. In total, UnitedHealthcare ...

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