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2 MISSIONMISSION The Maryland Humanities Council creates and supports educational experiences in the humanities that inspire all Marylanders to embrace lifelong learning, exchange ideas openly, and enrich their communities.Through collaborations with local partners in every county and Baltimore City, we offer the humanities both for their inherent pleasure and for their tremendous power to transform. Thank you for joining us on this journey—we can’t do this important work without you. WELCOMEWELCOME It’s been a transformative year for us at the Maryland Humanities Council. In 2015, we began pursuing our ambitious Vision 2020 plan for the future.

Thanks to the amazing support of our partners, participants, collaborators, and donors, we were able to serve more youth, adults, and elders than ever before with inspiring, high-quality, free humanities activities. We were also able to reach more than 10% of the state’s residents through Hon. Stephen J. Sfekas grant-supported projects, fairs and festivals, online engagement, and our weekly radio program. Chair, Board of Directors

Let us be abundantly clear: this is only possible because you believe in the tremendous impact of the humanities and our ability to bring them to communities statewide. Thank you for your commitment.

Please enjoy a few moments savoring what you made possible for the Maryland Humanities Council and hundreds of thousands of your friends, colleagues, and neighbors last year. We think you’ll be touched by the joy you see on the faces here. What a future we have ahead of us. Thank you! Phoebe Stein Executive Director THETHE YEARYEAR ATAT AA GLANCEGLANCE Thanks to your tremendous generosity—our supporters, partners, and friends—we are able to offer substantive, impactful humanities programs throughout Maryland. Here’s a snapshot of our Fiscal Year 2015 (Nov 2014–Oct 2015). Volunteer Hours (est.): 7,211 Twitter Followers: 3,570

Events: 1,395

Donors: 589 Youth Participants: 35,993 Towns: 171

Audience: 794,357 2015 Value of Volunteer Hours: $166,358

Partners: 564 Participants: 53,262 Volunteers: 679

Scholars: 1,483

Facebook Fans: 5,658 Video Views: 10,350 3 INSPIRINGINSPIRING YOUTHYOUTH The Maryland Humanities Council is devoted to cultivating a thirst for lifelong learning. A curious, seeking intellect nurtured from childhood is invaluable to future success. Making sure that youth also have opportunities to build critical thinking and writing skills is essential to this nourishment. By giving them a solid foundation in the humanities, they’re better prepared to be civically and culturally engaged adults. That’s why some of MHC’s most impactful programs serve students in public, private, and home schools. LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE

Letters About Literature fosters a love of reading while 58 honing students’ creative, analytical, and writing skills. In Schools 19 this national contest, young people pen personal essays to Counties authors whose work has had a profound effect on them. Each spring, Maryland’s finalists and winners are honored, along with an outstanding educator. Among those honored in 2015 was Level I winner Dhruv Pai—pictured above with his proud parents—for his letter to Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket.

ONE MARYLAND ONE BOOK Taking part can be transformational for readers. A Baltimore County teacher shared that one of her students—a young man who works a full-time job in fast food in addition to attending high school—wrote her a thank you letter after reading and discussing The Boys in the Boat, stating that it had changed his life. Daniel James Brown’s bestselling account of the underdog University of Washington men’s crew team that shocked the world at the 1936 Berlin Olympics was the extremely popular selection last year.

Public Events: One Maryland One Book is a dynamic program for both 307 youth and adults. MHC provides thousands of free copies Libraries: 172 of the chosen book to schools, libraries, and community Free Books: 7,400 partners annually. An estimated 10,000 students are reading, Schools: 90 analyzing, and applying themes explored to their own lives. Counties: 24 Several hundred Baltimore City and Prince George’s County Public Schools students also met the author during a special event at a local university that includes a campus tour.

4 MARYLAND HISTORY DAY The program experienced its highest participation level last year among students since its launch. Among the dozens of student competitors who advanced to the national competition was Alayna Stepp, senior group website category honoree from Frederick County, pictured at left with Amanda Conn from the Maryland State Department of Education.

Students who progress to the national contest trade state pins. Grady Fort, junior individual website honoree from Calvert County, was especially successful in this cherished tradition.

Maryland History Day gives middle and high school students a solid base in critical thinking, research and analysis, writing, and public speaking. Working solo or in small groups, students create original documentaries, exhibits, performances, research papers, or websites exploring a tremendous breadth of historical topics. Students progress through competitions at the school, district, state, and national levels. A national study found History Day participants outperform peers on state assessments in social studies, as well as reading, science, and math. «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« «««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« Counties: Schools: Educators: Students: 20 199 468 24,119

Maryland History Day has a profound and lasting effect on participating students, many of whom go on to careers informed by their experiences. Alexandria Ligon, an honoree last year in the senior individual exhibits category, recently spoke to students competing this year in Montgomery County. She shared her reflections on how participation impacted her, some of which are excerpted here.

“My project was an exhibit board about Madame C.J. Walker. As a young black girl, I had a growing interest in learning about my hair and caring for it. So Madame Walker’s story was a perfect fit. I thought that Madame Walker’s legacy was under appreciated, so I felt a responsibility to educate myself and share my knowledge with others.”

Along the journey I acquired so many mentors. For once, I felt that my voice mattered. History Day is more than a school project. It taught me that you can do anything you put your mind to. Believe in your dreams, they are more than just what your parents tell you to feel good about yourself.”

I simply want to encourage you all to take this journey seriously, as it can change your future for the better. Take pride in your work, speak up – and you will reap the benefits.” 5 ENRICHINGENRICHING COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES Gathering with friends and strangers, classmates and coworkers. Sharing our stories with one another. Examining history to give context to our current moment. Spurring conversations across cultural, economic, and generational divides. Providing crucial grants for educational and cultural projects. These are just some of the ways in which the Maryland Humanities Council brings Marylanders together to enrich their communities. CHAUTAUQUA

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Clockwise from top: Museum on Main Street, Federalsburg; Chautauqua, Catonsville; Museum on Main Street, Cumberland; Grants, Baltimore; Veterans Standing Together, Harwood

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Literature & Museum on Book Festivals: Medicine: counties Main Street: 10 3 30 discussions festivals special events & activities

Veterans ADDITIONAL Book Group: Humanities PROGRAMS 15 Connection: discussions 50 broadcasts Literary Mount Vernon Veterans Standing Walking Tour: Together: Grants: 11 oral history Clockwise from top left: Museum on Main Street, Annapolis; Museum on 172 workshops Main Street, Federalsburg grant-supported tours for youth events 9

DONOR SPOTLIGHT Glennor Shirley • Columbia • Donor since 2010

Why is MHC’s work important to you? MHC is important to me because of its programs of inclusive community engagement, its use of various educational media to help open minds, and the willingness of staff to travel across Maryland to ensure this. The book donations to the Correctional Libraries resulted in many lively book discussions among prisoners.

What would you tell others to inspire them to support MHC? MHC reaches out to all communities resulting in “something for everyone.” Your financial contribution, no matter how small, will help to ensure the continuation and expansion of their educational programs, visits, book discussions, and displays.

Shirley pictured with 2011 One Maryland One Book author Sherman Alexie

7 PARTNERSPARTNERS The Maryland Humanities Council is able to serve every corner of the state thanks to our amazing local partners. The following is just a partial list of the hundreds of cultural, educational, government, historical, and social service organizations that help bring the humanities to your community. Statewide Baltimore County Harford County Public Library Queen Anne’s County Maryland Public Television Baltimore County Public Library Harford County Public Schools Chesapeake College Maryland State Arts Council Baltimore County Public Schools The John Carroll School Queen Anne’s County Library Boys’ Latin School of Maryland Sacred Heart Homeschool Queen Anne’s County Public Schools Allegany County Calvert Hall College High School Allegany College of Maryland City County Discerning Readers Howard County Somerset County Allegany County Library Community College of Baltimore County Avaya Maryland Correctional Library Allegany County Public Schools Maryland School for the Blind EZ Readers Book Club Somerset County Library Allegany Museum Notre Dame Preparatory School Howard County Historical Society Somerset County Public Schools Bishop Walsh School University of Maryland, Howard County Public Schools University of Maryland, Eastern Shore C. William Gilchrist Museum of the Arts Baltimore County Howard County Recreation and Parks Frostburg Museum Howard County Tourism and Promotion St. Mary’s County Frostburg State University Calvert County Jo Orser Bookclub St. Mary’s County Library Gorden Roberts House American Chestnut Land Trust St. Andrew’s Episcopal School St. Mary’s County Public Schools Main Street Books Warrior’s Rest Sanctuary St. Augustine School St. Mary’s Ryken High School Mountain City Traditional Arts Calvert County Public Schools Talbot County North Branch Correctional Calvert Library Kent County Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Institution Library End Hunger Warehouse Kent County Public Library Londonderry Book Club Jefferson Patterson Park & Musem Kent County Public Schools Anne Arundel County Radcliffe Creek School Talbot County Public Schools AIA Maryland Gallery Caroline County Talbot County Free Library Annapolis Bookstore & Café Caroline County Public Library Montgomery County Washington County Anne Arundel County Cultural Caroline County Public Schools Barrie School Barbara Ingram School for the Arts Resources Division of the Federalsburg Historical Society Museum Bullis School Knob Hall Winery Office of Planning and Zoning Community Mediation Maryland Maryland Correctional Institute Anne Arundel County Public Library Carroll County Gaithersburg Book Festival Maryland Correctional Training Facility Anne Arundel County Public Schools Carroll County Public Library Green Acres School Roxbury Correctional Institute Anne Arundel County Reading Council Carroll County Public Schools Montgomery College Washington County Detention Center Banneker-Douglass Museum Carroll County Youth Services Bureau Montgomery County Historical Society Washington County Free Library Galesville Community Center Fairhaven Montgomery County Public Libraries Washington County Public Schools James Brice House Mount Airy Senior Center Montgomery Coutny Public Schools The Key School Primary Readers Book Club Cecil County Retired Teachers Book Club Wicomico County Kunta Kinte Resource Center, Bossermand Center for Conflict Cecil College Elkton Station Rockville Senior Center Book Club Sojourner Douglass College Eastern Correctional Institution Cecil County Public Library School For Tomorrow St. Anne’s School of Annapolis Migrant Clinicians Network Cecil County Public Schools St. John the Baptist Wiley H. Bates Legacy Center Poplar Hill Immaculate Conception School Washington Episcopal School Salisbury University Baltimore City The Tome School Wicomico County Public Schools Bais Yaakov of Baltimore High School Prince George’s County Charles County Wicomico Public Library Baltimore Book Festival Accokeek Academy Alpha Delta Kappa - Wor-Wic Community College Baltimore City Public Schools Accokeek Foundation Maryland Alpha Beta Chapter Baltimore Rowing & Resource Center Afro American Historical & Charles County Public Library Worcester County Baltimore Rowing Club Genealogical Society, Prince George’s Charles County Public Schools Worcester County Library Bryn Mawr School County Maryland Chapter Clark Senior Center Worcester County Public Schools Civic Works ArtSi Riverdale College Of Southern Maryland Enoch Pratt Free Library Chesapeake Math & IT Academy District of Columbia Father Andrew White School Frederick Douglass Isaac Maritime Park College Park Academy Federation of State Humanities Councils Grace Lutheran School Friendship Academy of Engineering From the Heart Christian School Library of Congress Indian Head Senior Center and Technology Montpelier Arts Center National Book Festival Leonard Hall Junior Naval Academy Gilman School Prince George’s Arts & National Humanities Alliance St. Mary’s Bryantown School Good Samaritan Hospital Humanities Council PEN/Faulkner Foundation Institute of Notre Dame Prince George’s County Dorchester County Memorial Library System Jernigan Institute at the National Dorchester County Public Schools Prince George’s County Public Schools Federation of the Blind Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance Riverdale Presbyterian Church and Jewish Museum of Maryland Win Transport Kreiger Schechter Day School University Park Below: Museum on Main Street, Loyola University Maryland Frederick County St. Ambrose School Annapolis Lubavitch Homeschool Umbrella Group Frederick Community College Maryland Historical Society Frederick County Public Libraries Maryland Library for the Blind & Frederick County Public Schools Physically Handicapped Frederick Homeschoolers Mercy Medical Center Maryland School for the Deaf Mount Clare Museum House St. Johns Catholic Prep Mount Saint Joseph High School Private High School Notre Dame of Maryland University Painted Screen Society of Baltimore Garrett County St. Joseph School, Fullerton Garrett College The Seton Keough School Garrett County Public Schools University of Baltimore Bob Parsons Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County Veterans Center Harford County Wide Angle Youth Media Harford Community College WYPR 88.1 FM 8 SCHWARTZSCHWARTZ PRIZEPRIZE Last year, our collaboration with the Galesville Community Center was honored with the Federation of State Humanities Council’s Schwartz Prize, a national award for outstanding public humanities programming. A host site for our Museum on Main Street program, the Galesville Community Center and its local partners presented the Smithsonian’s Hometown Teams traveling exhibition and a multi-faceted companion project, “Field of Dreams: Home Grown History,” preserving and celebrating the vital history of this small Anne Arundel County town. Among the many activities that galvanized Museum on Main Street local residents were the sewing of a community quilt, a activities in Galesville. Clockwise from top left: reunion of the Hot Sox Negro League baseball team, and Hot Sox Documentary an oral history project conducted by South River High Quilt, Hot Sox Reunion School students in dialogue with community elders. Lunch, “Gertrude’s Way” Ribbon Cutting

DONOR SPOTLIGHT Greg Sesek • Baltimore • Donor Since 2012

Why is MHC’s work important to you? What impact has it had on your community? I am a Marylander, a lifelong late thirtysomething Baltimore City resident, and have worked in the arts and community development my entire career. I know the transformative power that comes from speaking and being heard. Too many people in our communities feel invisible, and as a social worker, I see this on a daily basis. Individuals communicate with us however they can. MHC creates opportunities for us to speak and be heard through their wonderful programs and the skills they teach. I hope you will participate.

What would you tell others to inspire them to support MHC? MHC creates opportunities to engage people across our diverse state, children and adults, leaders in our communities and new Americans. I am inspired when I see young people recognized for their elegant self-revelations at the Letters About Literature program. Bright minds have to be encouraged and developed. The humanities are the tools for creating atmospheres of mutual respect and societies capable of recognizing the dignity of each voice. You will experience this if you participate in MHC programs, plus you will have some fun. I can’t think of a better place to meet new friends.

9 GRANTSGRANTS MHC supports innovative humanities projects with grants of up to $10,000. During Fiscal Year 2015, we awarded 17 grants totaling $87,600. Recipient organizations came from five Maryland counties and Baltimore City, as well as the Districtof Columbia. All grants were leveraged to secure additional community supporting funds, totaling $837,005 for all recipients.

Allegany County City Neighbors Foundation Towson University Frostburg State University Does History Matter?: A Student Exploration Visions of Place: Complex Geographies Humanities, History and Social Ethics in Appalachia and Documentary in Contemporary Israeli Art $1,200 $1,200 $6,000

Anne Arundel County Fells Point Creative Alliance University of Maryland, Baltimore County Annapolis Community Foundation Después de la Frontera/After the Border Mapping Dialogues: Deindustrialization in Baltimore Treaty of Paris Center $10,000 $10,000 $1,200 The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African- Dorchester County Historic Annapolis Foundation American History & Culture Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance Teacher Workshops on 18th Century Slavery Ruth Starr Rose (1896–1965): Revelations of 2015 Nanticoke River Jamboree: “Fire!” and African American History African American Life in Maryland and the World $1,200 $1,200 $6,750 Harford County Lost Towns Project The Walters Art Museum Harford Community College Foundation Four Rivers Heritage Area in 40 Artifacts: Humanities Programming for “Pearls on a String: Voices of Change: Social Protest through the Accessing the County’s Archaeological Collections Art in the Age of Great Islamic Empires” Arts & Humanities $3,400 $10,000 $9,750

Baltimore City Baltimore County District of Columbia American Institute of Architects, Baltimore Historic Hampton The Ciesla Foundation Uncovering the History of Past Women Architects Historic Hampton: Where Maryland History Rosenwald Documentary $2,500 Inspires Art and Innovation $6,000 $5,000 Arts Every Day A Walk through Shakespeare Stevenson University $3,400 New Roots $8,800

VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT Keith Stone program called the Humanities Fund for Baltimore and Baltimore recently has started funding the first slate of applicants. I had Volunteer since 2014 the privilege of reviewing grant proposals, and I continue to be amazed by the number of groups that are using the Why is MHC’s work important humanities to help move this city forward. Unfortunately, we to you? aren’t able to fund every applicant, but I’m thrilled that we were able to step up and help support some of the fantastic My mom was a Montessori organizations that are using the humanities to address the teacher so I’ve been around deep-rooted problems facing the city of Baltimore. [Please the humanities most of my life. Looking back, I have no see page 15, “Looking Ahead,” for more information.—Ed.] doubt that the opportunities I had to engage with the humanities in a variety of different ways (e.g., libraries, What would you tell others to inspire them to support MHC? museums, etc.) played a pivotal role in shaping who I am today. I really connect with MHC’s mission of lifelong Often times, we don’t realize how much of our everyday learning, and I’m excited to be a part of an organization that experience is influenced by the humanities. Reading is so dedicated to making sure that all Marylanders have the your favorite book. Going to an art or history museum. opportunity to engage with the humanities. Admiring the architecture that surrounds you. Each of these experiences is an exploration of the humanities. MHC is What is your favorite MHC experience or memory? inspired by these daily interactions, and we strive to enable the continued exploration of humanities content for all As a Board Member, I’ve been fortunate to attend a lot of Marylanders, regardless of age, economic status, race, the great programming supported by MHC. I’m probably the location, or any other factor. The work of MHC is not possible most proud of the organization’s response to the protests without your support. that swept Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray. In the fall of 2015, MHC established a new special grant

10 Elisabeth Dahl Baltimore VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT Volunteer since 2014 Robert Forloney St. Michaels What is your favorite MHC memory? Volunteer since 2009 In 2014, the Maryland Center for the Book selected my debut children’s Why is MHC’s work important to you? novel, Genie Wishes (Abrams 2013), For almost a decade, I have been to represent the state on the [National involved with MHC in diverse Book] Festival’s Great Reads About ways—from serving as a partner to Great Places list. That alone was exciting. But spending a few participating in public programs to hours at the Maryland table in the Festival’s Pavilion of the volunteering. MHC has helped to States was a whole different sort of exciting. Andrea Lewis, enrich me as well as those in my community. My aspiration is director of the Center, had told me ahead of time—It’ll be a to use a dialogue-centered approach to encourage respectful madhouse. She wasn’t exaggerating. It was a sea of people! engagement, facilitate listening, and generate better public People wanting their US maps stamped with the Maryland crab, understanding when developing educational programming. people browsing through pamphlets, people requesting signed These aims are also at the center of MHC’s mission. The bookmarks, people just wanting to talk books and writing. objective is to directly engage with others who think, feel, and It was an excellent few hours. The kind of hubbub usually believe differently as we, together, look beneath the surface of associated with rock concerts, World Cup soccer matches, and complex issues. Black Friday sales was happening because of books. How great is that? What would you tell others to inspire them to support MHC? I would encourage others to support MHC in order to create What would you tell others to inspire them to support MHC? a robust community that is informed as well as directly MHC is run by people with the talent and inspiration to turn engaged in significant local issues. The work that MHC makes your support into great humanities-related programming. possible acts as a catalyst for open and civil dialogue about Their efforts really do—as the MHC tagline says—help to topics important to the community as a whole. There is no open Marylanders’ eyes, ears, and minds. other organization that actively takes on this responsibility. HUMANITIESHUMANITIES CONNECTIONCONNECTION Did you know that MHC offers a weekly humanities essay Interested in being featured? Contact Communications on public radio? Officer and Humanities Connection producer Jessica Wichmann at (410) 685-4186 to discuss this opportunity. Thanks to the incredible generosity of WYPR 88.1fm, we are able to bring you humanist perspectives on history, culture, and current events from local scholars, community leaders, grantees, and members of our Board of Directors. The series, Humanities Connection, has aired more than 130 segments since 2013, each one introduced by Executive Director Phoebe Stein.

Broadcast every Thursday afternoon at 4:44 p.m. on 88.1fm in Baltimore and Frederick and 106.9fm in Ocean City—to a weekly listenership of 14,000— the series explores the intersection of the humanities and our daily lives. Each installment is also available for subsequent free download at both mdhc.org and wypr.org.

We hope you’ll tune in and share with us your reactions via Facebook and Twitter. RaeLynne Snyder, Social Studies Coordinator for Baltimore City Public Schools, records a segment on Maryland History Day 11 DONORSDONORS Thanks to our generous donors, we are able to keep hundreds of annual program activities free and acessible to all. Contributors to the annual fund of $1,000 or more are members of our Leadership Circle.

Leadership Circle: Diamond Leadership Circle: Platinum $250 to $999 Gosia & Todd Baker Barbara & Sam Himmelrich Anonymous Anonymous (3) Rose Baldwin, in Honor of James & Rosemary Hormuth Baltimore County Commission AES Corporation Norma Purcell Susanne M. Humphrey* on the Arts & Sciences Carol & Thomas Allen Cynthia Barry & Oliver Payne Reed & Kathleen Hutner* Alvin and Fanny B. James T. & Francine G. Brady* Taunya Lovell Banks* Janet & Gordon Bartels Josephine Imbriani & Thalheimer Foundation Brown Advisory Rick & Kim Barnes Buzz & Marylen Bartlett Lisa Vura-Weis Baltimore City Foundation FirstEnergy Foundation Carl & Jane Belt Howell Baum & Madelyn Siegel Judi & Randy Jachman Aaron Heinsman Laura Koppes Bryan John & Diane Baum Paula Johnson Freeman & Jacqueline Hrabowski, Deborah Winston Callard, Drew Berry Jane A. Josephs in Honor of Catherine Gira in Honor of Phoebe Stein Catharine F. Black Mary E. Kambic Pete & Mariana Lesher* Caplan Family Foundation Charles Alfred Blackburn Leonard Keifer Lois and Irving Blum Foundation Alex & Kelly Castro Mary Blair & Burt Kummerow Robert B. Kershaw* Eric & Meredith Brotman The M&T Charitable Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Charles C. Chadbourn, III, John & Bonnie Boland* Cathy & Mark Knepper* Mike & Margaret Bowler Denise Koch & Jackson Phippin Elizabeth Cannon & John Guy Stephen & Elizabeth Sfekas in Honor of Judy Dobbs & Phoebe Stein the Maryland History Day Staff Martha & William Bowlsbey David & Sandra Lange* Chapin Davis Foundation H. E. Bowlus Linda F. & Julian L. Lapides Leadership Circle: Gold Peggy & Ron Cohen Hope Braveheart Jonna & Fred Lazarus Anonymous (2) Suzanne F. Cohen Ronald & Marti Brown Grace & John Leatherman Barbara Barrett Clapp Thomas & Barbara Crain* Daniel & Sandra Bruckner* Dr. Hugh Ming Lee* Catherine R. Gira* Columbia Gas of Maryland* Kathleen Curtin, in Memory of Dr. George H. 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Shanks # Matching gift Betty Best Joe & Sue Garonzik Jason Loewith & Ned Cramer Robert M. Sheehan, Jr. Jayne Blanchard Jacqueline Pearce Garrett Taeler Lottino Nancy & Dick Shirey Nancy & Donald Bliss Tyler & Cathy Gearhart Alfred & Marsha Luce Glennor Shirley Daniel Blitzer Auni & Timmy Gelles Jacquelyn Lucy Maralee Shoemaker DONOR SPOTLIGHT Dr. Barbara A. Hill • Bethesda • Donor since 2008

Why is supporting the work of the Maryland Humanities Council important to you?

MHC always offers opportunities for bringing friends and strangers together in learning. As a former chairperson of the MHC Board of Directors, I had many opportunities to both shape and experience the council’s work. But my most meaningful MHC memories came in helping to realize the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Remembrance and Reconciliation initiative. Nearly all of the council’s programs drew thematically on this special initiative for several years. As a result, many frank and necessary community dialogues on race were held throughout the state. These challenged everyone to walk in another’s shoes, providing vital moments of discovery. The Music of the Movement culminating event— with the amazing performances by Sweet Honey in the Rock founder Bernice Johnson Reagon and the Bowie State University Gospel Choir and remarks from Congressman John Lewis—remains a treasured memory. John & Barbara Hill at the 2014 Leadership Circle Reception at the Baltimore Museum of Industry

13 WHOWHO WEWE AREARE Staff Board of Directors Dr. Phoebe Stein Grace Leatherman The Honorable Stephen J. Sfekas Dr. Lindsay J. Thompson Hilary B. Miller, Esq. Executive Director Maryland History Day Outreach Chair Governance Committee Chair Potomac Coordinator Baltimore Baltimore Jessica Baldwin Sally Miller Program Assistant Andrea Lewis Elizabeth Cannon Dr. Diedre Badejo Cumberland Program Officer Vice Chair Towson Kathleen M. Curtin Swanton Dr. Adrianne Noe Institutional Giving Manager Susan Millard Barbara Clapp Silver Spring Office Manager Dr. Silvia B. Golombek Baltimore Judy D. Dobbs Secretary and Program Committee Matthew Power Program Officer Jessica Wichmann Chair Elizabeth Cromwell Odenton Communications Officer Lutherville Frederick Marilyn Hatza Cynthia Raposo Program Officer Theresa Worden Dr. Nancy E. Rogers Rhonda Dallas* Silver Spring Program Coordinator Treasurer Oxon Hill Aaron Heinsman Dickerson Keith Stone Director of Development Albert Feldstein Baltimore The Honorable Ronald “Pete” La Vale Susie Hinz Lesher, Jr.* David Wise Development & Government Liaison Dr. Mary Kay Finan Baltimore Communications Assistant Easton Cumberland Dr. Joseph S. Wood Courtney Hobson Dr. Maarten L. Pereboom Dr. Michael S. Glaser Baltimore Program Assistant Grant Committee Chair St. Mary’s City Salisbury *Gubernatorial appointee Jim Kitterman Lisa Jablonover, J.D. Fiscal Officer Thomas B. Riford Clarksville Development & Communications Committee Chair Tiffany McGhee Williamsport Owings Mills

Statements of Financial Position: FY14 FINANCIALSFINANCIALS Assets Cash $ 592,283 Contributed: State of Maryland Receivables $ 165,075

$259,457 Prepaid Expenses $ 16,853 20% Property & Equipment $ 151,321 Security Deposits $ 2,500 Contributed: Private Contributed: $253,327 National Endowment 19% Total $ 928,032 REVENUES

Total $1,324,489 Total for the Humanities $791,960 Other Income & Interest Liabilities and Fund Balances 60% $19,745 3% Liabilities Accounts Payable & Accrued Expenses $ 65,387 Change in Net Assets ($15,481) Refundable Advances $ 33,750 Fundraising Capital Lease $ 19,712 $199,506 15% Regrants Payable $ 8,459

Loans Payable - Subtotal $ 127,308 Program Services Management $765,940 $177,626 Fund Balances 57% 8% Net Assets - Unrestricted $ 657,640 Net Assets - Temporarily Restricted $ 142,984 EXPENSES

Total $1,339,970 Total Grants to Organizations Subtotal $ 800,724 $196,898 15% Total $ 928,032 14 LOOKINGLOOKING AHEADAHEAD Now that you’ve had a look at some of the highlights of The humanities—especially history, the law, ethics, and 2015, please enjoy this overview of some exciting new philosophy—can give us the contexts for understanding and developments in store for you and the rest of Maryland addressing these entrenched problems. The humanities can this year. facilitate the conversations that will ultimately contribute to solutions. These conversations are—at their foundation— The Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative about fostering democracy at a difficult and painful time of polarization, fear, and animosity locally and in our nation. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually and honoring outstanding American To that end, MHC has launched a special grants initiative works in a variety of arts and humanities disciplines. MHC— supporting projects by community organizations that utilize along with 45 of our partner councils across the nation and the humanities to examine these issues and envision possible territories—will offer programming throughout the year solutions to them. Ten grants of up to $5,000 will ultimately spotlighting different genres and their relevance and impact be awarded. Projects already funded include: on our daily lives. • A documentary film made by youth and incorporating Our public programming will include: youth perspectives that investigates the public housing crisis in Baltimore and gives a historic perspective on • Journalism & Its Power to Inform—a series of panel how housing inequity and segregation began in the discussions featuring Pulitzer-winning journalists. city. Grantee: Afrikan Youth Alchemy Sponsored in part and hosted by The Baltimore Sun, moderated by Editorial Page Editor Andrew Green. • The “Seeds of Promise Book Club” after-school book March 8 through May 10. club for 80 high school students and young adults who reside in West Baltimore. Participating youth and adult • Pulitzer at Play—a series of dramatic readings mentors will read Monster by Walter Dean Myers and featuring A Streetcar Named Desire, The Gin Game, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore to explore the Water by the Spoonful, and others to be determined, environment that leads to the current conditions that along with a new adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s impact boys and men of color, such as racial inequality, Pulitzer-winning novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. the justice system, and mass incarceration. Grantee: Produced in collaboration with and hosted by Olney Promise Heights and the University of Maryland, Theatre Center. September 30 through October 2. Baltimore School of Social Work

For their generous support for the Campfires Initiative, A list of all Humanities Fund for Baltimore grantees and we thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford supported projects can be found on our website. In addition, Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John S. related public events will be featured on our online calendar and James L. Knight Foundation, the Pulitzer Prizes Board, of events and in our monthly eNewsletter. If you don’t and Columbia University. already receive it, subscribe today at mdhc.org.

Two of MHC’s existing programs will complement the We hope you are as excited as we are for what’s to come Campfires Initiative this year as well. This summer’s in 2016 and hope to see you at many of these events and Chautauqua series will feature living history performances others in future. Again, your support is what makes all of of three honored artists: poet Gwendolyn Brooks, musician this possible! Duke Ellington, and author Ernest Hemingway. One Maryland One Book’s 2016 theme is “the 21st-century Great American Novel,” as embodied by the selected book, All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.

The Humanities Fund for Baltimore Both the peaceful protests and the violence in Baltimore that followed the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in April 2015 were in response to decades of structural racism and inequity in housing, education, and economic opportunities in predominantly African American communities. MHC believes that the equity that needs to be created both in Baltimore and across much of the nation can begin with the humanities. Grants, Baltimore 15 108 West Centre Street Baltimore, MD 21201 (410) 685-0095 | [email protected]

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