Learning Inc. News
Current and Former Learning
Inc. Students
Enjoy Ball Game From Sky Box
HH1 June 2010
Auburn Bell from Legg Mason ARRANGED FOR SOME OF OUR CURRENT AND FORMER STUDENTS to have the sky box for one of the evening ball games – coming from the left to the right – the 1st 2 young men just graduated from high school on Saturday and were LI students 2 and 3 years ago. Next student is a current LI student, next one was with us for 2 years and is now in a BCPSS high school and is being successful and the last student is a current LI student!
Christopher B. Elser Memorial
Fund Awards Grants and Praise to Learning Inc.
HH1 May 2010
The news below is taken directly from the CBE website and is followed by an excerpt from an email recieved from the fund to Learning Inc. Executive Director, Judy Friedman.
"The CBE Fund is proud to announce that since our inception in 2006 we have distributed $30,000 in the form of two grants to Baltimore based Charity Learning Inc. Learning Inc. is a non profit organization whose mission is to re-engage Baltimore City at-risk adolescents in the process of education and to provide them with academic and life skills so that they may grow into caring and responsible adults with economic opportunity. It is our greatest hope that by partnering with this respected organization we can make a difference in the lives of young people who might otherwise become engaged in acts of violence or crime."
"Judy,
I just wanted to thank you again for taking the time
to meet with myself, Patrick and Cory this past Friday
afternoon. It was really a treat for us to get to meet
you and see the Learning Inc. space. It really seems
that what you are all doing is an absolute necessity
for these kids, and we couldn't be prouder that our donation
to you is assisting in such a worthy endeavor. Thank
you again for welcoming us with open arms, and we look
forward to continuing our partnership with Learning Inc
in the future."
Learning
Inc. Welcomes Auburn Bell as New Board Member
HH21 April 2010
Learning Inc. is very pleased to announce the appointment of Auburn Bell to our Board of Directors.
Auburn has worked at Legg Mason for seven
years in several capacities with increasingly broader
responsibilities. Currently, Auburn oversees several
aspects of the firm’s global marketing efforts including: market
research/intelligence, strategic marketing initiatives for the
Firm’s affiliates as well as periodic special projects for the
Chairman/CEO. Most recently, Auburn has also led the development
of the Legg Mason Global Equities Group as well as the re-branding
of the global / emerging market equity firms within the
group.
Prior to his current role at LM, Auburn served as a senior
marketing person in the Private Client Marketing Group
within the Legg Mason Wood Walker brokerage subsidiary.
While there, Auburn spearheaded two key initiatives which
included re-branding the brokerage unit and conducting
a strategic assessment of the retirement income market
and potential opportunities for the firm.
Prior to arriving at Legg Mason, Auburn held senior market
research, strategic planning and client service roles
at two of Baltimore’s largest advertising agencies. During
these tenures, his client experience included: Marriott
Hotels & Resorts, US Airways, McCormick & Company,
Six Flags Entertainment, Citigroup and Black & Decker.
Auburn received his B.S. in Business from High Point
University and a M.S. in Business from the Johns Hopkins
University. Outside of LM, he currently serves on the
Johns Hopkins University / Carey Business School Dean’s
Strategic Advisory Board and coaches both of his daughters’
soccer teams. Auburn resides in Towson just north of
Baltimore with his wife, Nancy, and two daughters.
Students Participate in Field
Trip to Morgan State with Learning Inc Volunteer
HH18 March 2010
One of our volunteers took some of our students
on a field trip Thursday to
Morgan State University: Below is the summary.
"We attended the Martin Luther King, Jr - Malcolm X Convocation There was a
panel of three professors two from political science and one
from communications discussing President Obama's first
year in office. We visited the James Lewis Museum located
in our Murphy Fine Arts Theater.
James Lewis was director of the museum and a professor at Morgan before his passing.
He collected many artifacts from his travels to Africa.
His family donated artifacts he obtained from Nigeria,
Algeria, and Ghana West Africa. At the entrance of the
museum there is a bust of James Lewis as well as a bust
of Martin Luther King, Jr. that Professor Lewis sculpted.
We had lunch at the student center.
We attended the studio of the School of Architecture where six classes were working on projects to design row homes for two types of families; one was a working couple with no children and the other would be for a couple with children. Some focal points of concern were windows and lighting to possibly include skylights, staircases, and entrances. Some students were working on computers so we were able to see visually the levels of the homes and some students sketched their homes to include sheets that show each level of the homes. Some of the MSU students stopped to explain what they did and what their specific focal points were and why."
Our Learning Inc. students went away with a
lot of information regarding how important it is first
to act appropriately as well as seeing the rewards in
sticking to goals and fulfilling the accomplishments
of making it to college.
On a lighter note they went ape looking at the many beautiful
young ladies on the campus.
Learning Inc Board Chair of
Development honored as Local Hero
HH22 October 2009
Barbara Kornblatt, (immediate past chair of
the Learning Inc. board and current chair of the development
and capital campaign committee) is being honored by Bank of America
as a “LOCAL HERO” – last year we nominated her for the
2009 LOCAL HERO Neighborhood Excellence Initiative Award and she
has WON!!!
This award celebrates the people in our community who
make a Baltimore better for all of us.
Learning Inc Executive Director to graduate
from Weinberg Fellows Program
HH29 September 2009
Judy Friedman, Learning Inc's executive diector will graduate from the Weinberg Fellows Program on October 9, 2009, at the Turf Valley Resort and Conference Center. Friedman has completed the year long program, which comprises of four intensive live-in retreats and is a leadership development program for executive directors of agencies serving disadvantaged Maryland residents. It provides hands-on, practical, interactive sessions focused on key elements of nonprofit management; exploration of issues important to agency leaders; the chance to meet and form long-term relationships with peers, and opportunities to identify and connect to a rich network of other helpful resources.
Students enjoy new WISE program
activities
HH27 September 2009
New at Learning Inc this school year is the WISE program. The program is a more structured attempt to acquaint students new to Learning Inc. to us, to each other and to the way we do things. The staff designed activities to promote fun, trust, leadership etc. For a photo gallery of the activities please click here.