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Past Grants

2018 (84)

2017 (156)

2016 (122)

2015 (123)

2014 (154)

2013 (120)

2012 (186)

2011 (189)

2010 (104)

2009 (86)

2008 (117)

2007 (118)

2006 (123)

2005 (130)

2004 (113)

2003 (85)

2002 (92)

2001 (117)

2000 (131)

Abell Featured Report

Dual Enrollment in Maryland and Baltimore City

Dual enrollment programs offer high school students the chance to enroll in college courses and earn transferable college credit while they are still pursuing a high school diploma. Research shows that dual enrollment participants are more likely to enroll and persist in college, earn higher...

Keeping the Water On

Across the country, cities like Baltimore, with aging infrastructure and concentrated poverty, wrestle with meeting the costs of a safe water supply and ensuring low-income residents have access to water they can afford.

Hope for Hemp? A Misunderstood Plant Prepares for Its Comeback

What if we discovered a plant that grew quickly and in multiple climates, could make everything from textiles to medicine to fuel, and could be more valuable to a farmer’s bottom line than most commodity crops?

Abell Award 2017

The 2017 Abell Award in Urban Policy goes to a paper that proposes to address the complexities of youth crime and incarceration in Baltimore City through an evidence-based program of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

Safe Consumption Spaces: A Strategy for Baltimore

Efforts to combat drug use through the war on drugs have proven ineffective, fueling the highest rates of incarceration in the world and deleteriously affecting public health. Taken together, these challenges have fueled interest in creative and effective interventions aimed to reduce harm to...

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Criminal Justice & Addiction

Reforming the Pretrial System

Most of the 12 million jail bookings in the United States each year are for low-level, nonviolent charges. More than 60 percent of people in jail have not yet been to trial, and as many as nine in 10 of those people are in jail because they cannot afford to post bond. The consequences can be...

Promoting Healthy Development by Expanding Access to Physical Activity

As the city that played home to Babe Ruth’s early love affair with the home run, to the prominence of the Dunbar Poets basketball teams several decades later, Baltimore has a storied history of youth involvement in sports and other physical activities. But recent trends indicate a shortage of...

Addressing Youth Homelessness in Baltimore

Unaccompanied homeless youth are an extremely vulnerable group. Living on their own—without the support of parents or guardians, and without a safe, stable home—many of them stay temporarily with friends or live in abandoned houses, on the street, or in locations not meant for habitation. The...

Helping Returning Citizens to Find Employment

Every year, approximately 10,000 individuals in Maryland are released from prison, with many of them returning to Baltimore City. Unfortunately, within three years, 40 percent of those released (or 4,000) are rearrested, and the unemployment rate among those recently released exceeds 50 percent...

Growing Baltimore’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Every year the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) has 25 graduate engineering students actively working on solutions to medical challenges that involve potentially commercially marketable devices and concepts....

Civic Works Real Food Farm

In 2010, Civic Works began building a farming operation for food production and access, workforce training, and education of Baltimore City school children on six acres in Clifton Park called Real Food Farm. Farm operations have grown to include seven production high tunnels (or hoop houses),...

Building a Stronger High School Pipeline to Careers

As the nation endeavors to ensure that every high school graduate is “career and college ready,” interest in career and technology education (CTE) programs has surged. Less than half of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) graduates currently enroll in two- or four-year colleges, making...

Supporting Low-income Residents by Improving Energy Efficiency and Lowering Utility Costs

Over two-thirds of Baltimore’s housing stock was built before 1959, and these homes use approximately 40 percent more energy than homes built after 2000. Lowering utility costs is critically important to strengthening the financial well-being of low-income families; reducing the usage of...

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Past Grants

Dual Enrollment in Maryland and Baltimore City

Keeping the Water On

Hope for Hemp? A Misunderstood Plant Prepares for Its Comeback

Abell Award 2017

Safe Consumption Spaces: A Strategy for Baltimore

Criminal Justice & Addiction

Reforming the Pretrial System

Health & Human Services

Promoting Healthy Development by Expanding Access to Physical Activity

Health & Human Services

Addressing Youth Homelessness in Baltimore

Workforce Development

Helping Returning Citizens to Find Employment

Community Development

Growing Baltimore’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Community Development

Civic Works Real Food Farm

Education

Building a Stronger High School Pipeline to Careers

Community Development

Supporting Low-income Residents by Improving Energy Efficiency and Lowering Utility Costs

Abell Foundation