We are thrilled to share with you our Summer 2024 edition of the Family League newsletter! In this issue, you will find inspiring highlights of our work, including investments in youth programs to combat learning loss, updates on our School Readiness initiatives, and powerful stories from our community partnerships. You’ll also read about the exciting progress we’ve made in fostering collaboration through Maryland’s ENOUGH initiative, along with innovations in data management and family engagement.

Upcoming Event-Let’s celebrate! In the tapestry of Baltimore’s social landscape, there are moments when threads of our collective efforts converge creating a vibrant picture of progress and possibility. Family League’s 33rd Annual Meeting is one such moment-a beacon of hope in our ongoing journey to uplift our city’s most vulnerable. Join us in this celebration of impact, resilience, and hope. This year’s theme is “Doing What Matters: Lifting up the Work that is leading Baltimore’s transformation one community at a time”…

November 8, 2024-Family League is honored to announce the awardees for our 33rd Annual Meeting, to be held on Thursday, November 14, 2024. This year’s honorees, representing the core values of Stewardship, Performance, Respect, Innovation, Trust, and Equity, exemplify the dedication and vision that define our shared mission to strengthen Baltimore’s communities. Through their remarkable contributions, these individuals and organizations have advanced equitable, impactful solutions that address some of the city’s most pressing challenges…

September 11, 2024-Cassidy Jenson, Local News. Baltimore is expanding a program to monitor students commuting hoe to areas new 10 schools, officials said at the City Council meeting Wednesday. Last summer, Mayor Brandon Scott launched the Safe Passage Baltimore initiative as a pilot, describing it as a program meant to make students traveling home from school safer. The program’s first iteration focused on monitoring students near State Center and Mondawmin bus and subway stations after school. Over the past year…

August 29, 2024-As part of Governor Wes Moore’s ENOUGH Initiative, a first-of-its-kind community-based strategy to address concentrated child poverty in Maryland, Family League hosted and facilitated four Community Quarterback and Partner Sessions across the city in conjunction with the Governor’s Office for Children and the Mayor’s Office of Children & Family Success about the $20M investment initiative and grant program targeting communities most in need…

June 17, 2024-Family League, in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office and Baltimore City Public Schools proudly kicked off the Community School 2024 Summer Institute today at Patterson High School. The two-day event, spanning June 17th and 18th gathers over 150 Community School Coordinators for an intensive professional development experience centered on the essentials of the Community School Transformation Framework. The institute aims to equip coordinators with the skills…