United Way of Central Maryland features Helping Up Mission on their website. To view the video CLICK HERE    

WMAR Staff BALTIMORE (WMAR) – Law firms in Maryland teamed up for Giving Tuesday to help people expunge their criminal records. Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service and Venable, a Baltimore law firm, set out to help 40 clients expunge 250 criminal record convictions so they can have easier access to jobs, houses, and time with their children. Both firms worked with the Helping Up Mission, which aims to help people who are overcoming poverty, homelessness, and addiction. To Read More CLICK HERE

Check out this great article about Helping Up Staff member and CFO Michael Burns: By Emily Rosenthal of the Catholic Review   WESTMINSTER – Fifteen choirs will participate in the world premiere of “Rhapsody in Bluegrass” at Carnegie Hall in New York City Nov. 27. Only one has a Catholic connection: the adult choir from St. John Parish in Westminster. “We’re a little parish choir in Westminster, invited to perform at Carnegie Hall,” said Regina McCurdy, director of liturgical music …

Yvonne Wenger Contact Reporter The Baltimore Sun A coalition of young people is searching for 614,000 pledges of time, money or acts of kindness as part of a local #GivingTuesday campaign to secure one charitable action in honor of every Baltimore resident. The global fundraising movement has raised tens of millions of dollars locally and generated creative outpourings in Maryland since it was established in 2012, such as a dance crew posting step-by-step video tutorials on social media to raise money …