Baltimore Bridges: A Youth Innovation Coalition Mixer

What can our impact be if we value authentic connections, collaborate, and envision abundance over scarcity? Join the Baltimore Youth Innovation Coalition (BYIC) for lunch, speed networking, and roundtable discussions. Our goal: spark new relationships intentionally, deepen existing ones, and align on ecosystem-wide challenges that may lead to collaboration and/or joint funding requests. This mixer is for BYIC Active Members and our stakeholder partners - foundations, corporations, & civic leaders - who care to support and shape youth opportunities in workforce, technology, STEAM, and entrepreneurship. Rough agenda: Lunch & Open Networking: 12-12:25 pm Speed Networking & Intentional Intros: 12:25-1:10 pm Funder Landscape Overview: 1:15-1:30 pm Roundtable Discussions: 1:30-2 pm Thank you to Wide Angle Youth Media for hosting us! We appreciate our organizing committee including representatives from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, France-Merrick Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative at Maryland Philanthropy Network and Active BYIC Members: The Be Org, Dent Education, CITCA, Code in the Schools, Village Place, and Wide Angle Youth Media. The Baltimore Youth Innovation Coalition (BYIC)’s purpose is to strengthen Baltimore’s ecosystem of equity-driven youth innovation organizations to achieve sustainable, collaborative impact. We define Youth Innovation as an approach that empowers young people as changemakers through equity-based STEAM, entrepreneurship, social impact, and/or workforce opportunities of the future. We are working towards a future where Baltimore’s youth grow into our city’s leading innovators.