Our 10 Year Timeline
Conversations Begin!
City leaders come together, leading to the creation of Baltimore's Promise.
Coalition Building
Broad community engagement begins through workgroups and planning meetings.
Bridgespan Group conducts initial analysis of Baltimore's cradle-to-career landscape.
Building & Growing
Tomi Hiers starts as Baltimore's Promise's first Chief Executive Officer.
Baltimore's Promise joins the StriveTogether Network.
Data is Power
Baseline data report released on Cradle-to-Career Investments in Baltimore City.
Baltmore's Promise launches our first city-wide collaborative work groups.
Working Together
New joint report with partners examines creating new opportunities for Baltimore City's youth.
Baltimore's Promise hosts a local convening formally launching Baltimore’s commitment to creating an Integrated Data System to provide better data about young people across systems.
Moving Forward
Julia Baez hired as Baltimore's Promise's second Chief Executive Officer.
Baltimore's Promise begins serving as administrative backbone for the Summer Funding Collaborative.
The Board develops and affirms the organization’s current Race Equity and Inclusion statement.
Baltimore's Promise partners with the University of Maryland School of Social Work on a report examining kindergarten readiness.
Celebrating Graduates
Grads2Careers graduates first cohort; receives major investment from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
New report released: Gaining Traction after High School Graduation.
Baltimore's Promise convenes city leaders at Humanim focusing on the literacy crisis for older youth.
Collaborating
The inaugural Summer Funding Collaborative community/youth review process, facilitated by Baltimore's Promise, begins.
Pandemic Support
Baltimore’s Promise provides $5.8 million to residents in response to the pandemic, including supporting Baltimore City’s COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Program and Grads2Careers participants and alumni.
Launched B'more Invested in partnership with OSI-Baltimore to support community-based organizations.
Data Launch
The Baltimore City Youth Opportunity Landscape — a public and collaborative effort facilitated by Baltimore’s Promise to centralize, aggregate, map, and analyze the youth opportunities available to young people ages 0-24 — launches the Dashboard and issues its first report.
B’More Invested announces first round of grants, five months after program’s launch.
Innovating with Partners
Youth Grantmakers Initiative releases first cycle of funding.
General Assembly authorizes and establishes the Baltimore City Youth Data Hub.
New bylaws establish shared leadership model with the community through community advisory board structure.
Grads2Careers graduates are earning a $10,000 higher average salary than when Baltimore's Promise completed the Post-Secondary Pathways Report in March 2018.