Baltimore Community Foundation

12-21-12: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

Today on The Lines Between Us, some people in Baltimore's nonprofit community tell us why they're moving the conversation about employment opportunities beyond "diversity" into "inclusion," and we'll learn what the difference is.

Then, the Celtic music group, Helicon, joins us for a preview of their 27th annual winter solstice concert.

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12-21-12: The Lines Between Us: Is Diversity Enough?

Our series "The Lines Between Us" has turned its focus from fair housing to economic opportunity, with a look last week at the various ways Baltimore’s minority entrepreneurs found support for their ventures when banks were denying them commercial credit.

Web extras:
- Danista Hunte describes the biggest challenge in approaching race, equity, and inclusion at the foundation.
- Sheilah asks Hunte and Johnson whether the conversations about race at the foundation have ever gotten confrontational.
- Harry Johnson talks about seeing the same faces in civic leadership, and ideas for bringing new leaders into the fold.
- Danista Hunte describes mapping the city and finding many West Baltimore community associations either defunct or led by people in their 50s and 60s. She also talks about a BCF program that hopes to develop young leadership in these neighborhoods.
- Plus, the full, unedited interview (33:45).