News

  • 05/11/2017 10:03 a.m.

    Goldseker Foundation Program Officer & Grantee Honored

    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….

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  • 02/28/2017 9:47 a.m.

    Op-ed: Don’t Panic Over Baltimore Schools Budget

    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.

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  • 05/13/2016 1:18 p.m.

    Press Release: Goldseker Foundation Releases 40th Anniversary Report

    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.

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  • 05/06/2016 12:51 p.m.

    Who is accountable for Baltimore schools?

    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.

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  • 01/12/2016 3:27 p.m.

    Let’s Get Real About Property Taxes

    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.

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