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Grantmakers group renamed Maryland Philanthropy Network
The Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers is no more. The organization announced Monday that it would change its name to Maryland Philanthropy Network as part of a rebrand. In a news release, ABAG announced that its mission and work was no longer best represented by the existing name and that suggestions from focus groups, stakeholders and members […]
Amato named president of ABAG
Celeste Amato has been named president of The Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers.
Amato to lead Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
The Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers has announced the appointment of a new president, Celeste Amato, who will bring 18 years of city government and business development experience to the position when she steps in on Dec. 3.
Betsy Nelson: Living Cities program is gaining ground here
Fall of 2010, when we first announced Baltimore as one of five sites selected to remake America's great urban places and reconnect residents to economic opportunity, I declared that there was no more important work that we could undertake.
Betsy Nelson: To grow city population, start in the middle
During her inaugural address in December 2011, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake proposed an ambitious goal to grow the city by 10,000 households over 10 years.
Betsy Nelson: Bringing environmental literacy to school
The 2012-2013 school year will bring with it the new environmental literacy requirements passed by the legislature in June 2011. This new graduation requirement ensures that all public school students experience environmental education as part of the curriculum.
Betsy Nelson: Living the nonprofit leadership transition
Seems to me that the much-anticipated leadership transition for nonprofit organizations is now occurring. Maybe it is reality or just my perception, since I recently announced that after 25 years I will step down as president of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers by the end of 2012. I look around and see that in […]
ABAG’s Nelson to retire in December
Betsy Nelson, who has served as president of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers since 1990, said she will step down from the post in December. The organization, founded in 1983, has grown under Nelson’s tenure to more than 135 private and community foundations, donor-advised funds and corporations with strategic grantmaking programs, representing the majority […]
Betsy Nelson: Region needs to build on significant assets
Last month, I was fortunate enough to attend the first of a four-part Redefining Capital series hosted by the Federal Reserve of Richmond/Baltimore Branch and a number of community partners — including, proudly, the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers. This forum featured the release of Building from Strength: Creating Opportunity in Greater Baltimore’s Next Economy, […]
Betsy Nelson: Defining and measuring success with data
As a membership organization of foundations and corporate giving programs, the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers has had a longstanding interest in increasing the funding community’s capacity to support and use data to inform decision making. We have seen increased interest by funders in measuring the impact of their grant dollars. The desire to target […]
Betsy Nelson: A decade later and the stories keep coming
Ten years and 240 columns about the role philanthropy plays in our community and our world! It gives me pause as I reflect on the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmaker’s biweekly column in The Daily Record. In the initial 2001 column, I noted that while many of us are familiar with the activities of nonprofit […]
Betsy Nelson: Capping deductions would hurt donations
There is definite irony to the recurring proposals to decrease incentives for charitable giving. Today, nonprofit organizations need private support more than ever as they operate under increasing demands for services resulting from a stagnant economy and government budget cuts. The Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers recently issued a public statement urging policymakers to support [&hellip[...]
