Advocates for Children and Youth (ACY)
$120,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
Toward support of a community outreach program designed to improve quality-of-life outcomes for Baltimore City children. ACY will be expanding its early targeted interventions for low-performing students and schools, increasing availability of health care, with a focus on preventive services, including dental care. ACY will advocate for the expansion of community-based services and programs for abused, neglected, and delinquent youth so as to allow more children to remain safely in their homes and will advocate for improved quality of case management and services that delinquent youth receive in facilities and after release.
Towson University
$31,000 / 2007 / Education
Planning grant for the development of the Cherry Hill Learning Zone Initiative, a partnership among the Baltimore City Public School System, Baltimore City, Towson University, and Cherry Hill’s grassroots organizations. After preparing an analysis of the local neighborhood indications and publishing a report, Initiative partners will develop an action plan for specific interventions to address community needs. Outcomes for each intervention will be evaluated and best practices of comprehensive community approaches documented.
Teach For America-Baltimore
$100,000 / 2007 / Education
For continuation of an initiative for recruitment and training of 90 to 100 new Teach For America Corps members and ongoing support of 85 corps members teaching in Baltimore City public schools. These recent college graduates, who have made a two-year commitment, are offered the opportunity to earn a Master of Arts in teaching at the Johns Hopkins University, while being placed in appropriate schools.
Sylvan Beach Foundation, Inc.
$5,000 / 2007 / Education
For a feasibility study of an initiative designed to create a central kitchen to prepare and serve nutritional breakfast and lunch to students at the ten charter schools in Baltimore City.
The SEED Foundation
$100,000 / 2007 / Education
Toward operating costs for the final phase of development of a boarding school for at-risk youth in Baltimore City. To achieve the goal of opening the school in the fall of 2008, the final phase of the planning will include establishing a board of trustees, helping to raise $30 million in private funds, securing site control of the former Southwestern High School facility, completing construction, developing the curriculum and programming, hiring staff, training school leadership, and launching a statewide student recruitment campaign.
