Parks & People Foundation
$80,000 / 2018 / Health and Human Services
Parks & People Foundation builds and revitalizes public spaces, supports greening groups and nonprofits with material and grant donations, and hosts out-of-school time programs for city-youth from low-income backgrounds that integrate environmental education, outdoor experiences, and social-emotional development. This grant supported the middle school sports program, which provides public school students after-school athletic enrichment with an integrated character development curriculum. Sports offered using a non-traditional model include soccer, lacrosse, baseball, volleyball, kickball, basketball, and flag football.
Mid-Atlantic Region MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center – Baltimore
$35,000 / 2018 / Community Development
The Mid-Atlantic Region MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center – Baltimore is an entrepreneurially focused organization committed to wealth creation in the minority business community. Its goal is to assist its clients as they secure financial capital; identify contracting opportunities; provide strategic advice and counsel to address immediate and long-term business needs; provide group and one-on-one training and education, and create and retain jobs. This grant provided support to a local small business which will increase production efficiencies and expand its access to market opportunities.
Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
$144,960 / 2018 / Health and Human Services
In response to studies showing long-lasting, damaging effects of exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics developed an intervention designed to support low-income parents of young children and to protect their children from exposure to ACEs. The intervention, known as TREE (for Talk, Read, Engage, Encourage) promotes positive parent-child interactions, which have been shown to mitigate the effects of ACEs. The TREE program includes video and print materials that encourage parents to talk, read and play with their young children, and are designed to be used by pediatricians during routine well-child visits. This grant supports the implementation and evaluation of the TREE program.
Le Mondo
$100,000 / 2018 / Community Development
Le Mondo is an artist-owned-and-driven project positioning Baltimore as a center for theatre and the live arts, nationally and internationally. Comprised of three buildings on Baltimore’s historic Howard Street corridor, the project will champion a diverse community of arts and community organizations, individual artists, curators, and arts-lovers in the city. This grant provided building stabilization support for Phase Two of the mixed-used redevelopment project on the 400 block of North Howard Street in the Bromo Arts District.
The Justice Policy Institute
$20,000 / 2018 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) is a non-profit research, public policy and communications organization that focuses both locally and nationally on reforms in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. This grant provided funding to continue JPI’s efforts to use the successful reentry of the Unger population to advocate for parole reform and effective reentry services in Maryland.
