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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The LaPlata-based Wills Group announced Thursday an additional $300,000 in unrestricted grants to support nonprofit organizations working to help individuals and families in need across the mid-Atlantic region. The announcement brings the company’s total philanthropic donations to address rising food ...

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Howard Hospital Foundation received more than $238,000 in sponsorships and donations to Howard County General Hospital’s fifth annual Heroes in Health Care event, originally scheduled as an in-person event on June 13 but relaunched as a virtual fundraising campaign.  The ...

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Girls in the Game Tuesday announced it received a $100,000 grant to support social justice programming for young women in Baltimore, Dallas and Chicago. The grant is part of a commitment from The Kevin Durant Charitable Foundation, Degree and the Laureus ...

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The Maryland Food Bank Tuesday announced it reached its goal of $12 million to fund Phase 1 of the organization’s COVID-19 Food Access Response Plan. The organization’s 90-day, $12 million plan was created in mid-March and laid out the amount ...

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Owings Mills-based catering company The Classic Catering People has formed a new program with United Way of Central Maryland called Classic Cares, an initiative to help provide people living in the Morrell Park community with access to healthy foods. A ...

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Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) will serve as a distribution site for free summer meals for Baltimore students and residents through Aug. 7. BCCC will provide free breakfast, lunch and snacks to Baltimore students and residents at the college’s Liberty Campus, 2901 Liberty Heights ...

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