NEWS FROM CHESAPEAKE CROSSROADS |
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Celebrate 30 Years With the Chesapeake Children’s Museum |
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Saturday, June 25
2:00-6:00 pm
Chesapeake Children’s Museum
25 Silopanna Road, Annapolis
Take a walk down memory lane and explore NEW features in & around the museum. Food, Silent Auction, Activities & more. The Chesapeake Children's Museum appreciates your support throughout the past 30 years and helping to keep us moving forward into 2022!
The mission of Chesapeake Children’s Museum is to create an environment of discovery about oneself, the peoples, the technologies, and the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay area for all our children and for the children in us all. Visit animals, create works of art, make-believe with props and dress-ups, explore a creekside nature trail.
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Advancing Equity in Urban Greenspace |
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Tuesday, June 21
7:00 pm
Organization: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
At SERC's next Earth Optimism webinar, hear from Atiya Wells, founder of the nonprofit Backyard Basecamp in Baltimore City. Atiya will highlight the importance of equity in landscape design, creation and community cultivation. With their BLISS Meadows project, Backyard Basecamp has reclaimed 10 acres of vacant land in their neighborhood to be used for environmental education and community greenspace, and to help communities of color reconnect with nature.
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Tonight! Virtual Lecture, Juneteenth: The Destruction of Slavery in the Civil War |
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Tuesday, June 21
7:30 pm
Organization: Historic Annapolis
Over the course of four years, enslaved people worked to turn the Civil War into a freedom war. Slowly but surely, they pushed President Abraham Lincoln and his commanders in the field toward embracing emancipation as a war aim and to compel them to take the giant steps forward needed to abolish slavery once and for all. On June 19, 1865, the federal government finally met that objective, declaring slavery dead across the country. This momentous event marked a new birth of freedom—an occasion we now commemorate as Juneteenth.
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AACPL Family Story Time at London Town |
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Wednesday, June 22
3:00-3:30pm
Historic London Town and Gardens
839 Londontown Road, Edgewater
London Town welcomes Anne Arundel County Public Library!
Families with young children enjoy a variety of stories, songs, rhymes, and movement activities. Build early literacy skills and enjoy the beautiful sound and sensory garden at historic London Town in Edgewater, MD.
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Fridays at The Captain’s with Jeff Holland |
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Friday, June 24
7:00-9:00 pm
Captain Avery Museum
1418 E. West Shady Side Road
Each Friday 7-9 pm in June, July, and August – the Captain Avery Museum will have a different presenter from 7-9 pm. These people will play music, make art, and talk about local history. Refreshments will be available. Get together with old and new friends for a night out!
Jefferson Holland is a modern-day Chesapeake Troubadour: singer, songwriter, poet, story-teller, performing all original material inspired by decades of life on the Bay. He co-founded the Chesapeake folk group “Crab Alley” in the 1980s and 90s and founded “Them Eastport Oyster Boys” with partner Kevin Brooks in 1992.
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En Plein Air: Painting in the Garden |
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Saturday, June 25
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Hammond-Harwood House
19 Maryland Ave, Annapolis
In partnership with Maryland Hall, join Hammond-Harwood House for En Plein Air Painting Workshop in the beautiful garden of the historic Hammond-Harwood House. The Hammond-Harwood House is a museum of 18th and 19th century architecture and art. Built in 1774, this National Historic Landmark presents a window into the lives of the people who built the house and those who lived in it, as well as an extensive decorative arts collection.
The program begins by examining the painting The Mill by James Peale. Participants will then be instructed in painting en plein air in the garden by Maryland Hall artists Edmond Prayb and Melissa Gryder.
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Next Week! Strategic Leadership for Nonprofit Leaders |
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Wednesday, June 29
6:00-8:00 pm
Michael E. Busch Annapolis Library
1410 West St, Annapolis
The Junior League of Annapolis (JLA) and the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County (CFAAC) invites nonprofit leaders, including executive directors, board chairs, and heads or chairs of large departments or committees to attend Strategic Leadership for Nonprofit Leaders. Participants will learn what strategic leadership is and what it is not, examine their motivations and their strengths, and build their own personal strategic leadership map for organizational and personal success.This session will explain the relationship between personal leadership strengths and organizational strengths and culture. Participants will learn how to connect their own personal Strategic Leadership skills with the organization’s strategic plan.
Participants will learn about and discuss the different strengths that everyone brings to the organization and how leaders lean into their strengths and think less about their weaknesses. Individuals will then use McLelland’s Model of Motivation to determine their strengths and their own leadership motivation within their organizations. These individual strengths and motivations will then be used to identify personal desired outcomes for the organization and to build a plan to use these outcomes in a strategic manner.
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Special Webinar: When Seeing Is Not Believing, How Will We Identify Implicit Bias? |
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June 22
12:00-1:15 pm
Organization: Maryland Nonprofits
What is implicit bias? How do we know if we have experienced it, or played a part in furthering it in the workplace?
As humans, preconceived notions and snap judgments are universal phenomena. The impact and influence of the decades of messages, innuendos, and stereotypes to which we have been exposed are tremendous.
This session is aimed at increasing our understanding of implicit biases and helping us identify our blind spots when it comes to people or groups who are different from us. Through conscious learning, we can do our best not to act on our implicit biases. The goal of this session is to engage in a respectful, honest, and productive conversation that will help identify the role we play in either furthering or dismantling instances of implicit bias around us.
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Quiet Waters Park Needs Volunteers |
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Project Restore Accepting Next Round of Applications in Early July |
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Application scheduled to open 7/7/2022 at 12:00 PM EST
Project Restore will provide $25 million to fill vacant retail and commercial buildings and support business investment, job creation, and economic growth in Maryland's communities. Businesses opening or expanding into vacant retail and commercial properties may be eligible for Project Restore grants from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development. Project Restore grants can help new and growing businesses with rent payments and operating costs in their first year.
Project Restore provides two grant opportunities for businesses, including nonprofits, that are expanding, moving to or opening in a property that was previously vacant for at least six months:
- Property Assistance Grant: Provides up to $30,000 for one year to support costs associated with rent, mortgage payment or property improvements as applicable.
- Business Operations Grant: For businesses that generate sales and use tax, provides up to $250,000 per calendar year to support capital (property improvements, equipment etc.) and operating (staff salaries, marketing, inventory etc.) costs associated with business operations in the vacant property.
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Chesapeake Crossroads Heritage Area | 410-222-1805 | heritage_area@aacounty.org | chesapeakecrossroads.org |
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