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Staffer Phyllis Ali w/Student "Scooter"

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 By Theresa VargasColumnistAugust 25, 2021 at 5:16 p.m. EDT6

During a drive earlier this week, Phyllis Ali asked the children in the car with her what they wanted to be 

 A former cop created a program to help Baltimore kids. Now, she?s hoping to give them more: a permanent safe haven. - The Washington Post 


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Debbie Ramsey, UE's Founder and Executive Director w/student Cencere Echols featured in Baltimore magazine 2022 Game Changer edition. "Changes follow creating something new". Debbie Ramsey

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Founder & volunteer as seen on NBC's "The Wall", Feb. 2021

2021 National Fundraising Campaign

2021 National Fundraising Campaign

2021 National Fundraising Campaign

(L) Founder and Executive Officer, Debbie Ramsey and Volunteer Ghadir Smallwood on NBC's The Wall promote UE's mission and vision statements to the world.

Ghadir Smallwood, Volunteer

2021 National Fundraising Campaign

2021 National Fundraising Campaign

Ghadir Smallwood one of UE's first volunteers assists in UE's National Fundraising campaign by being Debbie's team-mate. Watch the video to see what happens!

Founder, Debbie B. Ramsey on MSNBC

Executive Director as seen on MSNBC May 2, 2021 

  

In Penn North, a former BPD detective pushes to build a new youth and community center

By

Ethan McLeod Senior Editor at Baltimore Fishbowl.


December 17, 2018


  • Debbie Ramsey, founder of Unified Efforts, stands in front of the nonprofit’s Penn North property. Photo by Ethan McLeod.
  • Neighbors once called it “The Plantation”—not with the grim historical undertone you might expect for the largely black community of Penn North, but with a more playful reference to the property’s exterior. The three-story home at 2521 Woodbrook Ave. is uniquely set back from the otherwise row home-lined street, and sports a Southern-style second-floor balcony out back.
  • It was owned by Thomas H. Miller and his family, white residents who had a number of homes in the West Baltimore neighborhood.
  • “The big house,” says Annie Hall, president of the Penn North Community Association, who grew up nearby and went on to rent her first home from Miller. “That’s what we called it coming up.”
  • Miller sold it in 1972, and it was later acquired by the city, land records show. For years thereafter, the lot between Francis Street and Woodbrook Avenue earned a new nickname: “The Cut,” says former Baltimore Police Det. Debbie Ramsey. The vacant site became overgrown and littered with trash, offering a suitable place for people running from the cops to dump their contraband or hideout.
  • But after decades of neglect, Ramsey’s nonprofit, Unified Efforts, purchased the land from the city for $3,500 this past September. A month later, she and a group of volunteers cleared the grounds of litter, brush and other assorted debris. Neighbors have since helped maintain it by removing dumped trash, Ramsey says; they’ve told her it’s already a huge improvement from before.
  • And if she can realize her vision, the lot will soon house... To read more, click download at bottom. 


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