Maryland Citizens for the Arts Foundation

Working To Enhance The Quality Of Life
In Baltimore And In Maryland.

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For general support to promote the cultural arts in Baltimore City and throughout Maryland.

Location:

Ellicott City, MD

Year:

2000

Amount:

$5,000

Area of Interest:

Arts

ID:

2331

Abell Featured Report

Maryland's Dysfunctional Residential Third Party Energy Supply Market

An examination of retail competition in the energy market in Maryland reveals that, overall, it is not benefitting residential consumers and is especially harmful to low-income households.

Making Impactful Juvenile Justice Reform: Lessons from Recent State Efforts

This Abell Report examines recent efforts at reforming the juvenile justice systems in various states and finds key lessons for Maryland.

Adult High School Diploma Achievement in Baltimore

This report examines how adults can earn a high school diploma in Baltimore City and what opportunities exist to improve outcomes for degree attainment.

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Community Development

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),...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Maryland Citizens for the Arts Foundation

Maryland's Dysfunctional Residential Third Party Energy Supply Market

Making Impactful Juvenile Justice Reform: Lessons from Recent State Efforts

Adult High School Diploma Achievement in Baltimore

Community Development

Civic Works Real Food Farm

Community Development

Growing Baltimore’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Health & Human Services

Addressing Youth Homelessness in Baltimore

Health & Human Services

Promoting Healthy Development by Expanding Access to Physical Activity

Community Development

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

Criminal Justice & Addiction

Reforming the Pretrial System

Workforce Development

Helping Returning Citizens to Find Employment

Education

Building a Stronger High School Pipeline to Careers

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