Community Connections: Building Awareness & Access
💙 Theme: Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers
📅 Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026
🕒 Time: 9am - 4pm
📍 Location: TouchPoint Baltimore | The Village at Mondawmin, 3201 Tioga Parkway, Suite P, Baltimore, MD 21215
Our Purpose
The Baltimore CONNECT Community Conference is an annual regional gathering designed to increase awareness of local community services and resources, strengthen connections across organizations, and expand access to care for underserved residents in Baltimore City. With more than 150 attendees last year—including nonprofits, community groups, faith-based organizations, healthcare systems, and city agencies—the conference fosters collaboration and uplifts community-informed solutions to social and healthcare challenges. The 2026 theme, Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers, emphasizes advancing equity by strengthening partnerships and removing obstacles to resources.
Call For Proposals
🔹 Proposals Due: February 16, 2026
🔹 Notifications Sent: March 2, 2026
Who Should Attend?
Attendees include leaders and frontline staff from community-based organizations, health and social service providers, local government partners, universities, anchor institutions, local businesses, and Baltimore residents. We anticipate 200–250 attendees in 2026, in addition to hundreds more who may engage through live streaming across Baltimore CONNECT’s social media platforms, which reach more than 1.5K followers.
Marketplace of ideas
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2026
Form to Complete https://forms.gle/3bRvCGQQgxxYom7a7
