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  BALTIMORE — In roughly one week, the We Give Black Fest will host its annual CLLCTIVLY event at West Covington Park in Baltimore.    The three-day festival is aimed at highlighting black-led organizations and raising money. WJZ is a proud media sponsor of the event.   Ahead of the festival, CLLCTIVGIVE is trying to draw […]

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Letta Moore, the owner of KSM Candle Co, has been in business for eight years now. As one of Baltimore’s many Black-owned business owners, she is looking forward to the second year of the Black Business Quest, a campaign to shine a light on local businesses. – register for the Black Business Quest @ www.wegiveblack.com 

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We Give Black Fest is working to change the narrative for Black-led organizations through collective impact, community, and celebration. Each year, in celebration and honor of Black Philanthropy and Black Business Month, We Give Black hosts a Fest of 3 powerful events: Black Business Quest to encourage Baltimore to explore and support participating Black-owned businesses […]

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New Leadership Position to Strengthen Mission and Accelerate Growth  Baltimore nonprofit CLLCTIVLY, a place-based social change organization focused on racial equity, narrative change, social connectedness, and resource mobilization, announced today the addition of Krystle Starvis as the organization’s first chief operating officer. As chief operating officer, Starvis will utilize her strong nonprofit background to support the organization’s ongoing […]

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Join us for a powerful conversation with a panel of experts on implementing liberatory methodologies in our daily work. Broadly – we want to spark a regional conversation about liberatory methodologies in the human service field. Get involved and join the conversation. Our hope is that this event will lead to standing meetings with interested […]

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Happy Women’s History Month!   Are you a Black Woman-Led organization serving in Great Baltimore?  CLLCTIVLY is proud to present #BmoreHERstory BLACK FUTURES MICRO-GRANT VIDEO CONTEST.   💰The winner takes home $1500.💰The runner-up gets $1000.💰3rd place gets $500.🗣 NO STRINGS ATTACHED!   HOW IT WORKS   1. SUBMIT VIDEO Video entries meeting all requirements are accepted beginning […]

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By Cori Lucas,   It’s imperative in raising the next generation of Black leaders to convince them their voice matters. DewMore Baltimore (DMB) is giving Baltimore’s young adults a platform to tell their stories and share their thoughts, and showing them how. DewMore Baltimore houses some of Baltimore’s most talented young Black poets and spoken […]

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By Cori Lucas, It takes a lot to be Black in Baltimore City; decades of disinvestment and underdevelopment have contributed to the stress and trauma that many  Black residents are struggling with today. Add to this the grief due to gun violence, mass incarceration, maintaining employment, and underemployment—the list of hurdles are plentiful. When “everyday […]

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By Cori Lucas,   “We all we got, we all we need,”—a proud declaration from the members of We-Our-Us who describe their coordinated effort as a movement rather than an organization. We-Our-Us is an initiative led by and comprised of Baltimore’s Black men that shows that unity is much more powerful than aggression. Together, they […]

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By Cori Lucas,   Young Black men and boys need the support of the village now more than ever before. Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood (MMTH) is stepping in to be the supportive village that Black boys need in order to mature with respect, self-esteem, and the drive to always be their best selves. […]

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By Cori Lucas,   Of the 338 homicides reported in Baltimore City in 2021, 294 of those victims were young men—over half of those young men were Black. To say that the city’s statistics of violence among Black people is alarming would be an understatement; Baltimore has lived in this state of emergency for over […]

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By Cori Lucas, The most unfortunate facet of Baltimore’s reality is its reputation as one of America’s most dangerous cities due to its excessive murder rate. 2021 marks the seventh consecutive year in which Baltimore has experienced over 300 homicides—the grand majority of them a product of gun violence. “Baltimore Ceasefire 365 is a community-led […]

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