Wells Fargo & Company and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) delivered 70 emergency relief grants totaling $100,000 to America’s Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, including the Maryland chamber, which are leading in providing technical assistance to small businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USHCC ...

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Salisbury-based Perdue Farms Friday announced it has delivered another 140,000 pounds of protein — or 560,000 servings — to the Maryland Food Bank and five others as part of its commitment to donate a minimum of 1 million pounds of ...

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Silver Spring-based media company Urban One Friday announced the launch of Urban One Community Works Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that provides charitable assistance and services and donated a total of $20,000 to two organizations in their efforts to support students, families and ...

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Sandy Spring Bank Foundation Inc. announced Thursday it is donating $600,000 to support local hospitals and health care providers in the fight against COVID-19. The Olney-based foundation is donating $50,000 to 12 community-based hospitals in the greater Washington region, including ...

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SC&H Group, a Sparks-based management consulting, audit, and tax firm, donated 886 meals for local hospital workers through the Josie King Foundation lunch donation program. The firm challenged its employees to buy one meal for local hospital workers and within ...

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To honor the area’s health care workers, Baltimore-based creative agency TBC curated some of its favorite coronavirus internet memes and create a cheeky adult coloring book, “Thank You for Literally Saving the World: Volume 1 – Healthcare Heroes” to give ...

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As part of its ongoing COVID19 relief and recovery efforts, No Kid Hungry, a national campaign to end childhood hunger in America, and Nationals Philanthropies, the official charitable arm of the Washington Nationals, have issued matching grants of $25,000 to Prince George’s ...

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United Way of Central Maryland (UWCM) received a $10,000 donation from Amazon to help provide needed distance learning technology for low-income students. The donation will allow UWCM to purchase Amazon Fire tablets for 125 students at Ben Franklin High School ...

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Beloved Community Services Corporation, a nonprofit affiliate of Union Baptist Church, will receive 1,000 KN95 Masks to distribute Wednesday at 11 a.m. to persons living in the Upton community in the historic west Baltimore district. Baltimore-based VDNA Trading has initiated ...

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After weeks of COVID-19 restrictions that have put dental work on the back burner, Dr. Joanne Block Rief, a Baltimore area dentist who owns Crossroads Dental Arts in Owings Mills, distributed more than 250 free oral health kits May 1 ...

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