Grants

Chesapeake Center for Youth Development, Inc.

Toward support of the Juvenile Intervention and Family Independence Project in Baltimore City. Working with youth who are at-risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system, the center provides ongoing case management to include individual and family counseling, substance abuse treatment, monitoring, and mental health services for up to a year or more. In addition, the center will arrange transportation to court, school meetings, and appointments.

Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN)

Additional funding for staffing support of the Maryland Open Government Campaign, the goal of which is to make existing environmental laws more effective, encouraging Maryland leaders to enact changes in the state’s enforcement program, and to build a network of informed Maryland citizens working toward internal institutional reforms. By acting as a “watch-dog” group, CCAN will use grassroots mobilization to organize public comments and testimonies at permit hearings. It will also identify and recruit well-informed experts in public health, biological sciences, and climate issues to represent citizens in affected communities, and to voice their concerns about noncompliance among known polluters and lack of enforcement.

Civic Works

For the design and implementation of a grading and irrigation plan for the Real Food Farm site, which will utilize hoop houses for organic farming at Lake Clifton Park. The farm, with its hoop houses, orchard and tree nursery, serves as an educational setting for Lake Clifton High School students, a community learning center, and a source of produce for farm stands in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello and Belair-Edison neighborhoods.

Civic Works

Toward the creation of the Energy Retrofit Contractor Development pilot project. The project will identify and select a contractor from the Westport community to provide six months of classroom and on-the-job training teaching installation, air sealing, and cool roofing as steps to establish an energy-efficiency retrofit business.

Civic Works ﾠ

For continued support of Project Lightbulb, an energy-conservation pilot project for residents of the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello and Belair-Edison neighborhoods. The program offers free home energy education and energy-saving assistance to low-income households. Trained AmeriCorps members implement practical strategies to combat rising energy costs, including: hot water heater and water pipe insulation; light bulb replacement with compact fluorescent bulbs; installation of carbon monoxide detectors; low-flow showerheads and faucets; and the setting of appropriate thermostat temperatures.