{"id":187,"date":"2016-06-09T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2016-06-09T16:28:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T20:28:27","slug":"schaefer-center-graduates-inaugural-cohort-of-the-faith-based-development-certificate-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Schaefer Center Graduates Inaugural Cohort of the Faith-Based Development Certificate Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, June 4, the <strong>Schaefer Center for Public Policy<\/strong> held a graduation ceremony for the inaugural cohort of its new <strong>Faith-Based Development Certificate Program<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/2016\/06\/faith-based-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-188\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-188\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/2016\/06\/faith-based-2.jpg\" alt=\"faith based 2\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The program, which began in January of this year, is\u00a0available to faith-based groups in the Baltimore area with city-based real estate holdings that they plan to develop into affordable housing or community facilities. Participants go through a series of five monthly training sessions, and receive up to five hours a month in specific technical assistance, before receiving certification from the\u00a0Schaefer Center.<\/p>\n<p>The program and the graduates were featured in the <em>Baltimore Sun<\/em>\u00a0last week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/bs-md-ci-faith-development-20160604-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/news\/news-releases.cfm?id=2324\" target=\"_blank\">Faith-Based Development Certificate Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubalt.edu\/cpa\/schaefer-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">Schaefer Center for Public Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, June 4, the Schaefer Center for Public Policy held a graduation ceremony for the inaugural cohort of its new Faith-Based Development Certificate Program. The program, which began in January of this year, is\u00a0available to faith-based groups in the Baltimore area with city-based real estate holdings that they plan to develop into affordable housing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/cpablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}