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BALTIMORE, MD (Thursday, January 25, 2024) – Today, Mayor Brandon M. Scott announced that long-time City Hall aide Alexandra "Alli" Smith will be named Chief of Partnerships and Philanthropic Strategy. The new role, which will report directly to Chief Administrative Officer Faith Leach, marks a new era in the City of Baltimore’s efforts to engage with and marshall the resources of Baltimore’s expansive philanthropic community to help tackle important work across the city.
“For over a decade, Alli Smith has served the residents of Baltimore in a variety of roles, always centering her love for this city and its residents in everything she does,” said Mayor Brandon M. Scott. “Her experience at every level of City government, in the classroom, and working with some of Baltimore’s most vulnerable residents makes her perfectly suited to take on this new leadership role in our administration. Our city is lucky to have her working on its behalf, and I look forward to her continued dedication in her new role.”
“Taking on this new role and being able to forge stronger relationships between the City of Baltimore and our philanthropic partners is an honor,” said the new Chief of Partnerships and Philanthropic Strategy Alli Smith. “There is incredible work being done all across our city, both independently by our philanthropic partners and in collaboration between them and city government. This new role will allow for a new level of connection and coordination that will benefit Baltimoreans in every corner of our city.”
As the new Chief of Partnerships and Philanthropic Strategy, Smith will be charged with centralizing and systematizing the City of Baltimore’s relationship with numerous philanthropic partnerships. Through numerous well-established programs, city government routinely works with a variety of philanthropic partners, from large-scale international operations like Bloomberg Philanthropies to significant regional foundations like the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation to small neighborhood non-profits like Rose Street Community Center. In her new position, Smith will serve as a main point of contact for these philanthropic partners and the City is able to work effectively with all of them to tackle some of Baltimore’s most challenging problems.
The new position was designed in consultation with the Civic Fund, one of the many philanthropic partners that the City routinely works closely with. Smith will also lead the effort to utilize the recently-announced T. Rowe Price Foundation public-private partnership grant designed to assist in developing a strategic approach to philanthropy.
Smith has worked in City Government in a variety of roles, most recently as the Assistant Deputy Mayor of Equity, Health, and Human Services. In this role, she already works closely with a number of philanthropic partners, playing a pivotal role in the Squeegee Collaborative, the guaranteed income pilot program in partnership with CASH Campaign of Maryland, and the award-winning 9-1-1 behavioral health diversion program. She has also previously served as the Director of Community Engagement in the Mayor’s Office and as the Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhoods, which has since been renamed the Mayor’s Office of Community Affairs (MOCA). Prior to working in City Hall, Smith worked as an elementary school teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools.
She is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University and Johns Hopkins University, where she received a Masters in Teaching.
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