Banner political notes: Moores hop across the pond new top trooper sworn in comings and goings
:format(url)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/baltimorebanner/YC6BQ4GR2NDSJMLBC7L7ZJHWRY.jpg)
April 15, 2023 5:30 AM EDT
Weekly political news and notes from around Baltimore and Maryland.
(Laila Milevski, Original photos by Shan Wallace, Pamela Wood and Wikimedia Commons/The Baltimore Banner)
Our nonprofit news organization is made possible by subscribers and donors who value storytelling that impacts and uplifts communities. Thank you for supporting our journalism.
Moore takes service pitch across the pond
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore used his first international trip to pitch the idea of using volunteers to tackle some of the states pressing problems.
Speaking to the Skoll World Forum, a gathering of social innovators, Moore touted his newly established Department of Service and Civic Innovation. Initially, its going to house existing community service and volunteer programs, as well as an expanded program of paid service for young adults.
It appears he wants to broaden the departments mission.
Its going to be the headquarters of our mission to bring people together and recruit volunteers to help whats broken in our state and our world, Moore told the Skoll crowd in Oxford, England, on Thursday.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is shown on a livestream speaking at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England, on April 13, 2023.
He gave three examples of how volunteers could be enlisted: engineers building seawalls to protect communities from climate change, lawyers assisting people returning from prison and social entrepreneurs who want not just to build a more just and equitable future, but who want to build it now.
The Democratic governor invited the Skoll conference participants to come make the world a better place with us.
I want Maryland to be the best place in the world to change the world, he said.
Moore also repeated his goal of offering a paid year of community service work to all young people recently out of high school. That program will start off with 200 participants in the first year, with a target to grow to 2,000 in the next few years.
The Skoll Foundation is an international nonprofit that invests in social change entrepreneurs and the forum celebrates 20 years of impact and the innovators who drive social progress,
Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 9:30 am