Baltimore, MD, March 16, 2021 – Market Fresh Gourmet, a minority-owned Maryland-based business, in partnership with Arctaris Impact Fund, a fund focused on building sustainable communities in Baltimore City, will focus on local employment opportunities with recruitment and training efforts through its workforce development programs. The grocer will provide fresh foods and prepared foods along with classes and special events for the neighborhood. As other phases of the Center\West project come online, the grocer will also expand its footprint.
Archive for March, 2021
Saddleback Mountain Ski Movie Premiere
March 12, 2021 Saddleback Mountain Ski Movie Premiere: The transformative story and rebirth of a ski mountain which reopened for business in 2020 after a five-year hiatus. Saddleback is a community anchor and employer in Rangeley, Maine, and also home to the most incredible ski terrain in the Northeast.
Pittsburgh suburbs Jeannette, New Kensington and others to benefit from new $20M investment fund
March 10, 2021 Regional news website TribLIVE discusses Arctaris partnership with Richard King Mellon Foundation, which played a significant role in the region’s development for more than seven decades. RKMF helped underwrite everything from Pittsburgh’s original emergence from its status as the Smoky City during Renaissance I in the 1950s to the Digital Foundry, a new high-tech facility in New Kensington’s Corridor of Innovation.
Foundation partners to invest $20M in distressed ‘opportunity zones’ around the region
March 10, 2021 As reported in the Pittsburgh Gazette, the Richard King Mellon Foundation is teaming with a Boston firm to invest $20 million in job initiatives and economic development in distressed communities in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. The fund will target job creation and economic development initiatives in low-income communities in Allegheny, Westmoreland counties.
Richard King Mellon Foundation partners with Arctaris Impact Investors
Pittsburgh, PA, March 10, 2021 – The Richard King Mellon Foundation and Arctaris Impact Investors announce a $20 million joint commitment to invest in a unique program for the Pittsburgh region that will bring the transformational power of Opportunity Zones to dozens of economically distressed communities in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties.