Baltimore

Urban innovators share a commitment to using new approaches, and often new technologies, to tackle long-standing challenges that seem unsolvable to others and that affect a large number of cities.  

What do entrepreneurs look like, and how can the city support them?

Baltimore’s arts community is tirelessly striving to advance diversity, equity, and social cohesion.

Baltimore had plenty of gloom in 2015 — the inexcusable death of Freddie Gray and the uprising that followed, the 344 homicides, and the 24 percent of the population living below the poverty line. But there is some gold gathering.

When viewed through a health lens, the more a person is exposed to violence, the more likely they are to be involved in future incidents of violence — either as a victim or a perpetrator, spreading like a disease.