“Programs like UMB CURE Scholars need investors, they need mentors — there are lots of different ways for businesses, organizations, and individuals to get involved.”
— Ed Brake, CEO, Ellin & Tucker
CEO Edwin “Ed” Brake, who has been with the accounting and business consulting firm Ellin & Tucker since 1982, echoes the company’s dedication to Baltimore, consistently pledging his time to revitalize the city and the downtown community, in particular through lasting volunteer efforts and advocacy. Brake and Ellin & Tucker are major philanthropic supporters of the UMB CURE Scholars Program and UMB’s community engagement work in West Baltimore.
Brake considers CURE a model for the collaborative approach to problem-solving. “Public-private partnerships are key to addressing the area’s challenges,” he says. “Everyone has to do their part. With CURE, the University, donors, business and health care professionals, and volunteers are all working together to help provide tangible opportunities for young people from underserved communities.
“Without economic development, the city can’t solve any of its problems, but addressing these challenges is everyone’s job,” he added. “Programs like UMB CURE Scholars need investors, they need mentors — there are lots of different ways for businesses, organizations, and individuals to get involved.”
Brake stresses that it is critical to address the root causes that have fueled Baltimore’s ongoing challenges by discovering innovative solutions, like the CURE program, that cultivate the next generation of leaders and provide lasting educational tools to tackle tomorrow’s problems.
“We have to bring programs and knowledge to people,” he said. “If we work together, the economy will improve and over time, many of our problems can, and should, be solved.”
Read the full story in the Fall 2021 issue of CATALYST magazine.
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