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Baltimore is “The Most Generous City in America”
Publisher’s Note: What Works Studio, the agency that produces What Weekly, is proud to have served as GiveCorp’s marketing partner for…
Warnock Foundation Survey Finds Hope Amongst Baltimoreans
Publishers’ Note: The Warnock Foundation is a client of What Weekly’s sister company, What Works Studio. We are proud to…
Redefining Family and Community
At last check, 66 percent of Baltimore City Public Schools students graduate high school in four years. Every student in…
The “Mad Women” of the 307 Collective
In room 307 of Maryland Institute College of Art’s Brown Center, four students immersed themselves in a design internship for…
The Baltimore Algebra Project
Ralikh and his colleagues stay involved because beyond tutoring math – as the name implies – the goal of the…
Primal Guerrilla Marketing
How’s this for a social experiment… 1. Fill a couple duffel bags full of drums and percussion. 2. Show up…
Challenging a Culture of Low Expectations
The reality of life is that it’s not all cupcakes and rainbows. Even if it were, cupcakes aren’t good for…
From Here To There
On March 29, 2013 the Maryland General Assembly passed the historic Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act ensuring that $4.4 Billion will…
Transportation Infrastructure Now
Note from the editor: Keeping in line with our mission, What Weekly advocates for transit and transportation infrastructure projects that…
Let There Be Transit
Baltimore has plenty of fire. Fire for crime, for housing, for jobs. This past weekend the fire focused on transit,…
Come Home Baltimore
PROVING YOU CAN TAKE THE WIRE OUT OF BALTIMORE The Come Home Baltimore Fund Modestly Announces a Crowfunding Contest…
Araminta Freedom Initiative
The name Araminta, which means “defender,” was Harriet Tubman’s given name as a child slave in Maryland. In honor of…
The Consent Revolution
The Consent Revolution, One V-String Thong at a Time By now, you have probably heard about the Pink Loves Consent…
Give Corps turns 1!
Give Corps collaborative string art! Local crowd-funding site GiveCorps celebrated its first year of grassroots philanthropy in a one-of-a-kind anniversary party…
Little Free Libraries
Lesley Noll wants to invite you into a world at once vast and intimate. That world begins within the Village…
Baltimore Time Bank
At the conclusion of a dynamic presentation last Friday by Piper Watson and John Shea, discussing the future plans of…
What is a Tool Library?
“Much like a traditional library, the tool library is a free community lending service, but instead of books, we deal…
What is a Tool Library?
“Much like a traditional library, the tool library is a free community lending service, but instead of books, we deal…
Give Corps: Philanthropy for the People
A conversation on philanthropy and entrepreneurship with Give Corps CEO, Jamie McDonald. Give Corps, a visionary tech startup, seeks to…
#SaveADopeBoy
“You know, people look at the young drug dealers in this city like they a menace. Man, these are kids.…
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