Recently, CLIA, a youth leadership development organization, awarded Inspiring Voices 2017 awards to the Goldseker Foundation’s Program Officer, Laurie Latuda Kinkel, and a grantee, Fagan Harris of Baltimore Corps. CLIA youth produced videos to demonstrate the impact of the awardees’ work: Laurie Latuda Kinkel: Positive Planting, and Fagan Harris: Talent.…

The Baltimore Sun published an op-ed entitled Don’t Panic Over Baltimore Schools Budget by Goldseker Foundation Program Officer Laurie Latuda Kinkel regarding the $129 million budget deficit facing City Schools in 2017-2018.

The board of directors of the Goldseker Foundation has released its 2015 annual report marking four decades of grantmaking in the Baltimore metropolitan area. The report highlights many of the foundation’s most significant accomplishments and impacts.

Goldseker Foundation President & CEO Matt Gallagher co-authored an op-ed in The Baltimore Sun with Kurt Schmoke, President of the University of Baltimore, and Tom Wilcox, President of the Baltimore Community Foundation, raising concerns about accountability in Baltimore City Public Schools and offering suggestions regarding local control.

In a Center Maryland blog post, Goldseker Foundation CEO Matt Gallagher argues for sustaining the discipline to ensure incremental property tax cuts for Baltimore City residents and finding opportunities to responsibly accelerate reductions in ways that don’t rely on an unrealistic influx of new resources.

In response to the state’s decision not to build the Red Line, Goldseker Foundation CEO Matt Gallagher called for near-term transportation improvements in an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun.

Throughout 2014, the Goldseker Foundation sponsored a series of eight programs on WYPR 88.1 FM, to examine the many dimensions of Baltimore’s struggles with vacant properties, and the most promising efforts to find solutions.

The Board of Directors of the Goldseker Foundation has announced the approval of the largest grant in the foundation’s 39-year history: $1.5 million to the Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF) and its affiliated entities Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. (HNI) and the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance (CMTA).

Goldseker Foundation CEO Matt Gallagher called for tackling Baltimore’s vacant property problem to set the stage for transformational growth in an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun.

Governor Martin O’Malley has named Matt Gallagher to chair the Local and Regional Transportation Funding Task Force. WBAL Reports.