$2,500 - $5,000 awards for community leaders connecting in Central Baltimore

¿Qué significa tejer comunidad (weaving)?

Tejer comunidad (weaving) es la práctica de construir relaciones significativas que crean las condiciones para que la confianza social crezca en las comunidades.

Comienza con un compromiso sencillo: vernos los unos a los otros como iguales en dignidad, incluso cuando las experiencias y los puntos de vista difieren.

Tejer comunidad (weaving) invita a las personas a:

• Descubrir lo que tienen en común.
• Aprender cómo sus diferencias pueden fortalecer a la comunidad.
• Trabajar codo a codo por el bien común.

Esta labor puede ser formal o informal, y se caracteriza por cuatro cualidades:

• Local: Une a personas que comparten el mismo vecindario, pueblo o región.
• Mutua: Celebra las contribuciones de todos y crea oportunidades para que cada persona pueda tanto dar como recibir.
• Acogedora: Invita a las personas a unirse tal como son.
• Continua: Construye relaciones que se profundizan con el tiempo a través de un compromiso constante.

¿Qué son los Premios Weaver?

The Central Baltimore Weaver Awards are a public recognition and celebration of the efforts neighbors and supporters in our communities are making to develop stronger connection with and between each other.

¿Por qué lanzamos los Premios Weaver en Central Baltimore?

Baltimore City and many other cities around the country are struggling with a breakdown in social trust- with institutions, with the business world, and sometimes even with their neighbors.

Social trust is cultivated through relationships and connection. In times like this, we need to support those community leaders that are making connections, combatting the darkness and leading with heart, and spreading joy by leaning into each other in a hyperlocal way.

The Weaver Awards offer rare support for the community capacity building and organizing that is essential to thriving, equitable, sustainable neighborhoods.

Being a Weave Community Host Site allows us to:

1) elevate and celebrate resident led projects and stories;

2) enhance and expand our Partnership’s strategies with new tools to build the capacity of emerging and legacy community leaders and stakeholder organizations;

3) strengthen the web of organizations we have woven across eleven neighborhoods in Central Baltimore;

4) join a learning community of peer organizations across the United States.

¿Qué recibirás si eres galardonado/a con un Premio Weaver?

CBP will award 20 Weavers annually:

• Level 1 (5 awards):
  • Financial award: $5,000
  • Professional headshot and social media post
  • Utilize meeting space in Central Baltimore for at least one event at no cost to the Weaver
• Level 2 (15 awards):
  • Financial award: $2,500
  • Professional headshot and social media post
  • Utilize meeting space in Central Baltimore for at least one event at no cost to the Weaver
• All Weavers will receive the following:
  • Access to an online national network of local leaders called Weave Us
  • Access to public speaking support through the Weavers Speakers Bureau, upon request
  • Community resource connections in Central Baltimore
  • CBP will also facilitate quarterly events for and with Weavers including:
    • A networking event
    • A professional development workshop
    • A hands on capacity building opportunity
    • A cohort celebration or event of choice

¿Quién selecciona a los galardonados con los Premios Weaver?

A diverse group of Central Baltimore stakeholders including previous Weaver Awardees, community providers and funders, as well as active community members will review applications and recommendations. They will select 20 Awardees annually to receive this recognition.

¿Quién es elegible?

For someone to be considered for an Award they need to:

• Be 18 or older
• Live, work, attend, serve, and/or connect in Central Baltimore Partnership neighborhoods
• Have a project that helps connect neighbors and fosters relationships between them
• The project is open to anyone in the community
• The project addresses a shared need in the community
• If the project is part of an organization, the organization must have an annual budget below $250,000
• Have a community recommendation from a community member who lives, works, attends, serves, and/or connects in the area you serve.

¿Qué buscamos en una solicitud para los Premios Weaver?

We all know neighbors who show up, again and again, to make our community better. They seem to know everyone. They inspire us to support each other. They see a need and fill it. They often don’t have big titles or receive grants for their work. We count on them and yet we rarely celebrate how important they are to us.

The best candidates are those that build relationships within and across neighborhoods, connect neighbors and youth to opportunity, and establish and continue traditions based on trust and that develop connectivity in communities just to name a few!

What are good examples of weaving?

Check out some examples HERE

¿Cómo puedo usar los fondos?

We believe that Weavers know the best use for their funds so that they can fill gaps, meet needs, and sustain community efforts. So the use of funds will remain flexible as long as it is used in support of the collective efforts the Weaver is doing for their project (including the Weaver's individual time) and within the eligible community.

Ineligible uses of funds include:

• Lobbying or political campaign activities
• Personal debts
• Legal defense and prosecution costs
• Losses incurred on other grant or contract awards

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About Central Baltimore Partnership

Since 2006, the Central Baltimore Partnership has worked to improve quality of life across Central Baltimore by mobilizing partners, leveraging resources, and advancing equitable development strategies. CBP collaborates with more than 150 organizations—including neighborhood associations, anchor institutions, businesses, and government agencies—to strengthen communities and expand opportunities across the eleven neighborhoods of Central Baltimore..

Learn more about the Central Baltimore Partnership HERE

Learn more about resources in our neighborhoods HERE

Asesores Comunitarios

• Review Committee Members to be named shortly