Baltimore Business Journal – The Women’s Giving Circle, a fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation, started with 52 women in 2001. The group now has more than 300 members, each of whom contributes $1,100 annually. The women decide together which organizations should receive the funds, with a goal of improving life and fostering self-sufficiency among economically disadvantaged women and their children in Baltimore and Baltimore County.
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