Bringing the B & Dee’s Baltimore Love to nourish and make a difference in our city

The mission of B & Dee’s Baltimore Love is to provide hot meals and groceries to those in need in the city and Tramour WIlson brings his passion to Nestor at Koco’s Pub in Lauraville for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” to tell the whole story of their community group and how you can help.

Nestor Aparicio hosts Trey Wilson from B and D’s Baltimore Love, an organization celebrating its 10th anniversary dedicated to feeding the homeless in Baltimore. Trey explains their mission to provide hot meals and groceries, emphasizing their commitment to community service regardless of weather conditions. They also conduct food drives, clothing drives, and toy drives, and accept financial donations and gift cards. Trey shares a personal story about the impact of their work in Sandtown, highlighting the importance of giving without expecting anything in return. They operate monthly community giveaways and rely on volunteers to package and distribute meals. Nestor and Trey discuss the positive changes in Baltimore, attributing them to reinvestment and community care.

Action Items

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Promote and run a follow-up segment for B and D’s Baltimore Love Pride event after receiving Trey’s update to help energize listeners and drive participation
• [ ] Return to the show around early May to discuss B and D’s Baltimore Love Pride activities and provide an update on Pride plans to Nestor so he can promote the event
• [ ] Respond to incoming inquiries sent to info@bdBaltimorelove.org and provide requested information or assistance (including filtering information via personal Instagram handle) for event coordination and volunteer/questions
• [ ] Recruit monthly volunteers to prepare and distribute packaged meals (targeting the ~230–250 meals per monthly giveaway) and coordinate packaging shifts on the Friday/Saturday before the last Sunday giveaway
• [ ] Publish and maintain the monthly community giveaway location schedule on the organization’s Instagram/TikTok so volunteers and recipients know where the last-Sunday monthly giveaway will be held

Outline

Baltimore Love and Community Feeding Initiatives

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, highlighting the charity community week and the candy cane cash giveaway.
• Nestor mentions the involvement of GBMC and new sponsors, including B and D’s Baltimore Love.
• Trey Wilson, a board member and director of B and D’s Baltimore Love, joins the conversation to discuss their mission.
• Trey explains that B and D’s Baltimore Love has been feeding the homeless in Baltimore for 10 years, ensuring no one goes without a hot meal.

Origins and Mission of B and D’s Baltimore Love

• Trey shares that B and D stands for Brian and Demetrius, the founders of the organization.
• The organization was created to honor Brian and Demetrius, who were deeply committed to community service.
• B and D’s Baltimore Love participates in Baltimore Pride and other community events to provide hot meals and support.
• The organization operates across Baltimore City, switching locations monthly to reach different communities.

Community Outreach and Support

• Trey discusses the various ways B and D’s Baltimore Love supports the community, including food drives and grocery distributions.
• They provide canned goods and other non-perishable items to those without access to cooking facilities.
• The organization also conducts clothing drives and accepts financial donations to purchase necessary items.
• Trey emphasizes the importance of every donation, no matter how small, in supporting their mission.

Personal Stories and Impact

• Trey recounts his personal experience volunteering with B and D’s Baltimore Love in his local community, Sandtown.
• He shares a story about a man he met who was positively impacted by their efforts and now helps support the organization.
• Trey highlights the importance of giving without expecting anything in return, which helps maintain their motivation.
• Nestor expresses his emotional connection to the story, emphasizing the power of giving and community support.

Volunteer Opportunities and Community Trust

• Trey explains the need for volunteers to help package and distribute meals, especially on the last Sunday of each month.
• The organization relies on community trust and regular presence to ensure people know they can rely on them for support.
• Trey encourages people to follow B and D’s Baltimore Love on social media to stay updated on their activities and volunteer opportunities.
• Nestor and Trey discuss the importance of community involvement and the positive changes they see in Baltimore.

Reinvestment and Hope for Baltimore

• Nestor shares his observations about the improvements in Baltimore, noting the cleanliness and hopeful signs.
• Trey, with a background in urban planning, agrees that Baltimore is making progress and is a great place to live.
• They discuss the reinvestment in Baltimore by people who care about the city and want to see it thrive.
• Trey emphasizes the importance of community and the village mentality that has always been a part of Baltimore.

Final Thoughts and Future Plans

• Nestor and Trey discuss the importance of continuing their efforts to feed and support the community.
• Trey mentions upcoming events, including Baltimore Pride, and invites Nestor to join them for future activities.
• Nestor expresses his appreciation for Trey’s work and the impact of B and D’s Baltimore Love.
• The conversation ends with a positive note, highlighting the importance of community love and support.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Baltimore Love, community feeding, homeless support, food drives, grocery bags, financial donations, volunteer opportunities, community trust, urban planning, Baltimore reinvestment, Baltimore pride, hot meals, clothing drive, toy drive, community outreach.

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SPEAKERS

Tramour Wilson, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 task of Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive, positively here at Koco’s doing a cup of soup or bold as Maryland crab cake tour. This is our charity community week, and I am blessed with this just wild audience of people that at one point last week I put one shout out on LinkedIn, Insta, Facebook, just put it out there for the masses. And people are coming at me fast. I might have to extend this the next week for it’s all over with. We have candy cane cash giveaway. We’re out here Koco’s Today, and our friends at GBMC have also put us out here. And we have new sponsors. We have a Super Bowl going on. Luke’s gonna be looking out for always Mills, but I get emails from folks all the time and this, I love this, because the word love is involved in this and the word Baltimore is involved in this. So Brian dolbo is the president of B and D’s Baltimore love threw me a note said, Hey, we want to come on and talk about what we’re doing at B and D’s Baltimore love. And I’m like, I know what b and d is, but it’s got Baltimore love in it, so it can’t be bad. So Trey is here. Trey Wilson, you are the board member and director. All right. Man, soup to nuts. I go to the website and read from it, but Baltimore love, I love that.

Tramour Wilson  01:15

Yeah, appreciate that. Yeah. So my name is Trey. I am a board member for Baltimore. Love. It’s called B and D is Baltimore. Love. B and D is actually an organization that we just celebrated our 10 year anniversary. So we’ve been doing a lot of great work in the city. What we do is we go to different communities within Baltimore City, and we make sure we feed the homeless. So we make sure there’s not folks going without hot meals. And we don’t care if it’s snow, we don’t care for rain without last Monday. You said yes. Last Monday, yeah. So we are sure to be feed folks. We do. We do food drives where folks are donating food, where we are, where we’re purchasing food. So rather donations are low, we’re still spending our budget and spending our money and our donations to make sure we purchase food, to make sure folks are fed. So we make sure that no one goes without a hot meal. But we don’t stop at hot meals. We also give them groceries to take back with them. So we give folks who are homeless or folks who live in communities that they are neglecting love, right? And we bring a little love in that community. And that’s like also giving them a hot meal and to give them grocery bags, groceries that they could take home with their self if some folks might be without, without lighting, without beating without gas, electricity. So we also give them can foods, the foods they can still eat no matter what their conditions are.

Nestor Aparicio  02:23

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Now, where are you based? Where’s where? Where’s the bricks and mortar to put all this together, because I’ve done food drives. Some folks brought me some food over there. I might wind up giving it to you, my man, take you put a good home to that chicken salad over there. But, but people want to give to you. And how did this start?

Tramour Wilson  02:42

10 years ago? Yes, so B and D is right? So B stands for Brian, which is the president and

Nestor Aparicio  02:47

founder of being he wrote to me, Thanks, Brian.

Tramour Wilson  02:50

Feed people. Yes. Listen, we love we love some Brian, right? And so it was two, two gentlemen who really care. Really was deep in caring about community and caring about giving back what part of town? So we’re talking like how they met within, like, the Mount Vernon, the Midtown area. Yeah, absolutely right. So we had, we do every year giving away a war called to them the trees award. And it’s someone who used to be the, he used to be the Director of LGBTQ affairs for the city of Baltimore. He’s was heavily prominent in the community, but he passed away a few years ago. So what, what Brian did was they created an organization called B and D’s for Brian and Demetrius, and they created this organization that made sure they fed the community. They don’t just do stuff, just just every so often. They don’t often. They also make sure they have a big presence on Baltimore pride. It celebrates, it appreciates the entire community. So they help with folks that may be in June, right? Yes, yeah, it’ll be a June this year. This year dates will be June the 12th, the June the 14th, and they do a big participation and to make sure they provide hot meals then, and also a part of pride in general. So you down in Mount Vernon area, yes, but for us, we do that we’re across the entire city. So we every, every month we’re switching locations. So we try to make sure it’s not a barrier to where we located at and we’re coming to find folks. So for one month we might be in like the Penn north area. One month we might be over in the Cherry Hill area. So we, we used to cover the entire state of entire state of Maryland, but also Baltimore. And then we have special projects every year where we go help feed folks in other cities, like Wilmington and in other parts of Delaware, to make sure that outreach and the impact that we can make in Baltimore is also showing love nationwide.

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Nestor Aparicio  04:32

Well, it’s right on the website here, so you can find that it B, D, E, B, D, E, Baltimore. Love.org, B and D is Baltimore. Love, you got it right up here on the website here, all sorts of information up here and ways to donate. Say, donate money, food. Yeah, leftovers.

Tramour Wilson  04:48

So everything I would tell people all the time, every every little part counts, right? So we have folks who donate canned goods and food, right? We do every year, we do a clothing drive. So we take clothes, we take. Shoe donations, where, you know, we take scarfs, we take coats. We also take a financial donation. Financial donations help us purchase those things. Some folks don’t have the time or don’t have the supplies, so they provide money to purchase it. We take gift cards. Also, what’s really cool about us, we give away. We do giveaways for Thanksgiving, right? We’re doing hot meals. And for Christmas, we do a toy drive, where we have a big event giveaway toys. So all year long, you could donate. So just like you look at any other organization, any other foundation, donate, don’t forget about us. Can we do some great work?

Nestor Aparicio  05:27

B D, Baltimore, love.org you say some great work. Give me, you know you’ve been involved long time. Give, give. Give everybody a story of something you’ve done, feeding people, somebody that came in, somebody that you’ve given a step up on and get them off the street, because that the goal is not to just keep feeding people, keep them on the street. Every one of your organizations is offering somebody a way up and out, a way up in it, because you don’t want to be feeding the same people years now you’re feeding today. Yes.

Tramour Wilson  05:54

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So I actually want to talk about how I came a part of the organization, and I think it brings the story together. So I was invited several years ago to come in to volunteer and at a community feeding. And the community feeding was so important to me because it was in my local community where I grew up at, so that’s Sandtown, right? So if folks challenges over there, yeah, a lot of challenges, right? But we made it do, look at you. So I tell folks all the time, right? You know, we love the Oreos in Baltimore, so in that sanator area, we want to feed folks. We had, like, the little table set up where people was coming, getting food, but we have food left over. And they were like, Hey, we got to get this food to other people. We don’t want to throw this food away. And I was like, Yo, how about a community walk, right? We have volunteers there, and some folks a little scared. It’s a rough neighborhood. I’m like, Oh, this my, this my city, right? It’s my community. So we took the food. I mean, you know, turn the station used to be rough back in the day. So we, I took the food, and we walked into the local community. We were actually giving a food out, you know, you know, in the rough, you know, alleys and different, like, you know the kindness when you they they are shocked by kindness. They think something has to come from and they think that you’re giving them something because they want something back. But we tell them, No, this is this what love looks like. Love looks like giving something without requesting nothing back in return. So we were out there giving that food away, maybe about four or five months ago. I seen a gentleman, because I also work around Baltimore and a lot of like reentry and public health work, I saw a gentleman that was coming out of a clinic. He stopped me, like, Hey, I know you. You gave me food on um, open Avenue. I was like, when? And he was telling me. I was like, oh, yeah, that’s what being D. He’s like, Yeah, man, I’ve been clean for this long, been doing, you know, these amazing things, you know, and we always look forward y’all come, come around there. How can I help you, or how can I support you all? And that was really amazing for me, because from a community I come from, you never, you never can really manage the impact, right? Because some of these people are people that you may never see again. But when you got those success stories of folks who said, Hey, you all fat me multiple times, you know what we had, when I had nothing, when I had no hope, you were there for us that made the world of a difference, and it kind of helps us keep going with our mission and make sure we’re doing good things out there in the city.

Nestor Aparicio  08:06

I cried 13 times the first year it did this. I’ve been on the cusp a couple, three times. But, man, you said some stuff just about, that’s what loves about, right? Yeah, giving without

Tramour Wilson  08:15

expecting anything, enough to return, yeah. So you know,

Nestor Aparicio  08:19

I love this Baltimore. Love This is good man. Trey is here. You can find them together. We will make a difference. B, D, E, Baltimore. Love.org, I’ll get everything else out there. Is it a weekly Is there a Saturday morning? Is there? You said hot meals? Is there? Come get one on Thursday after you must have some sort of schedule, because hot meals won’t happen with that bunch of people like us come

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Tramour Wilson  08:42

together, right? Yeah, so hot meals happen, but also we come together and we bring volunteers together to actually make our packaged meals. So where we’re giving out sandwiches, where we’re giving out canned goods, when we’re giving out goody bag like bags that people can take with them to kind of last them out the time. So on the on the one of the fourth Sundays of every month we do a big community giveaway, right? And every community giveaway changes every month. So we ask you to follow us on Instagram, follow us on Tiktok, and look to see where we will be located that month. And then prior to that, that weekend, prior that weekend, that Friday and Saturday, we’re packaging the food up where we’re making the bags, right? We have really volunteers. And then we also need volunteers monthly, because we’re giving out over 230 30 or 250 meals every single every single time. So we need people to help make those meals that also help this distribute those meals. So, yeah, we’re looking for people to help in any way they can. How many times a month you doing that? So we do that one on a large scale, one time a month, one time the last Sunday of each month.

Nestor Aparicio  09:39

And is this, I mean, this is hand to mouth right on the street, yeah, yeah. I mean, this isn’t, you’re not sending out an Instagram the homeless people, right? Yeah, for people to even know this food is there, I’m sure you know your neighborhood.

Tramour Wilson  09:53

Yes, it’s called, it’s called Community Trust. A lot of folks lean on Instagram to do the outreach. But when you have. Community Trust. When people see us set up our tents, when people see our cars roll up, they get so excited because, because we’ve been to those communities, we don’t go to one community once and never go back. We circle those. We keep it on a rotational schedule so they know they can expect for us to be back to make sure we service them and make sure they have everything that they need.

Nestor Aparicio  10:17

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All right. Trace here from BD, Baltimore, love you can check them out. You got a phone number email. I know you said I’m not on Tiktok, but you know if I were, but I am on Instagram, Facebook, all of those typical places. And then just BD, Baltimore, love.org right?

Tramour Wilson  10:30

Yes, absolutely. And you can reach us through email at info, at B D, Baltimore, love.org so you can also email us. You can follow us on Instagram or tick tock. And then also you can file find myself at be more underscore better on Instagram. And I can also help you out filter any information needed.

Nestor Aparicio  10:47

All right, little side detour for you and me, being Baltimore, guys, I lived downtown for 19 years. I mean, I was downtown with Freddie Gray happened, and when Kathy went to jail, and like, you know, all the bad Trump, the covid, the masks, all of that stuff, my wife spent two years, for the most part, in hospital Hopkins, trying to fight for her life, which started with all this stuff that I do, I saw the city really take a turn for the worse over a period of time. You know, after the odds into the 1214, 16 area. As a Baltimore guy, 2026 as I look at it, I drive in and out of the city. We’re in a city right now. It was a fadeleys on Monday. You know, I mean, I’m in the city all the time. This city’s getting better. Or my you, you’re not as old as me, but you’re old enough to know better. Over at Sandtown, do you sense that the city is on an upswing in some way, because we hear a murder rate and all that, but I see the cleanliness of it. I see sort of some hope. I’ve driven through neighborhoods it used to have more trash and more of this, and more graffiti, just more of those sort of sites that, like nobody cares about it. I don’t feel that way when I go through the city and I told Mayor Scott that a couple weeks ago, like I drive through the city now, and it feels cared for, maybe in a way that 10 years ago, I wouldn’t, I would have looked at it a little differently. You agree with that, or disagree?

Tramour Wilson  12:05

Listen, you actually, you’re asking a perfect person, right? You know, not only that, my I have a background in urban planning, so I understand the systems that come into function here. So one thing I would tell people, and I tell people, everywhere I go, have lived all over the country, and I tell people this, Baltimore is one of the best cities in this country to live in, one of the best cities you get the best bang for your buck compared to other major cities. And we have to realize and not take away the fact that Baltimore is one of the few left black cities with majority black population, right? And a lot of people left Baltimore. When you think about it, a lot of people saw the crime, lot of people saw the drugs, lot of people saw the builders falling down. And they said, You know what, I’m a lead ball to go to DC. I’m gonna go to Atlanta, Georgia. They kind of scratched out, right? But what we’re seeing now is a reinvestment. We’re seeing people who are from this city come back to the city, buy a property in the city, and that’s where the first step comes in. At we always look at, when you think, if you go back historically, look at redlining and look at all the cause and effect that got us there, but when you look at now, we’re seeing a bigger investment of people coming back and say, hey, I want to invest into Baltimore. I want, I want where I grew up at I want my kids to understand what community look like. You know, Baltimore’s the one place I would tell everyone now in on this note, I was raised by a village in Baltimore, and it took a village, right? And that’s the part, right? The part is people think that, oh, Baltimore just this grimy or or down place, but Baltimore raised people care about other people that part. They do that part. And we all live close to each other, yes. So not that, oh, you’re finding a mile down the street. No, we’re next to you with some sometimes we live on top of each other, and we look out for each other, right? And yeah, you’re gonna have the speech everywhere you go. You’ll have crime everywhere you go. But it’s Baltimore getting better, yes, because Baltimore is being reinvested in by people who’s from Baltimore, who actually care what Baltimore looks like moving forward.

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Nestor Aparicio  13:53

All right? End of violence is feed some people. Get people back. Trey’s here from B D Baltimore. Love.org Can I get you back on the show? Man, it’s been too short to visit me.

Tramour Wilson  14:04

Get back with your Oriole hat. We love it. Y’all we love before pride.

Nestor Aparicio  14:08

You guys. Come back when you’re doing the pride thing. Yeah, come back maybe early May, yeah, about six weeks out. Like to do that way I can run it again and get people energized, and I’ll go about it. I’m gonna get an update from you. Yeah, we love it. Got Baltimore love in the name and not be a part of this. By the way, lottery ticket for you, and a crab cake too, if you want. When you listen, we appreciate that. I mean, you got your posse over there. We got Koco’s and how to feed folks here. Marcel is here making sure that people are fed. Nobody got fed around here last week because they were on vacation. I mean, she said we’re getting a foot of snow. I’m out of here this week for six down the street. He’s gonna come up. We’re gonna talk a little bit of sports at about his wife going over to Africa. We’re doing it for the Maryland lottery. Candy Cane cash. You got lucky number 39 I wish I was still 3939 is a good number. That’s that’s a prime number. I am Nestor. We’re here at Koco’s. We’re gonna have a good time and continue to. Debate, converse. Make the world a better place. It’s cup of Super Bowl. I’m gonna go have myself a cup or a bowl of cream of crab soup right now. Back from Royal Baltimore positive. Stay with us. Appreciate you, man. You.