Anne Arundel County Food & Resource Bank, Inc.
$5,000 / 2008 / Health and Human Services
For repair of the food bank’s only commercial refrigeration unit, allowing the food bank to continue to distribute perishable, nutritious food to an increasing number of people in need.
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, Inc.
$150,000 / 2008 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the Regional Housing Equity Project. The purpose of the project is to provide more than 6,000 families the opportunity to move from racially isolated public housing units in Baltimore City to nonimpacted, low-poverty, racially integrated neighborhoods throughout the region that offer greater education, employment, and housing opportunities.
Advocates for Children and Youth (ACY)
$60,000 / 2008 / Health and Human Services
Toward continued support of programming designed to improve quality of life for Baltimore City children. As part of the “Maryland Can Do Better for Children” campaign, ACY provides research-based recommendations for strategies to meet the needs of Maryland’s children, including the implementation of the Family Team Decision Making model to help reduce the number of foster care placements; the promotion of bonuses to attract strong school principals; support for community-based programs such as Multi-Systemic Therapy and Functional Family Therapy, which have been shown to reduce recidivism; and expansion of oral health care for children on Medicaid.
University of Maryland Baltimore County
$18,151 / 2008 / Education
In continuing support of an evaluation of the Core Knowledge Preschool Program at St. Vincent de Paul Southeast Head Start centers. The evaluation measures the effectiveness of the Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence in the areas of language development and early literacy, math reasoning and number sense, social skills, visual arts, music, and readiness to learn. The sample of Southeast Head Start Center children, 70 percent of whom are Spanish speaking, will be compared with a control group, half of whom are Hispanic. Once the children enter kindergarten, follow-up studies will track the academic progress of the two groups.
University of Baltimore/ Center for Community Technology Services
$40,000 / 2008 / Education
For the purchase of computers, training, and support of the LATCH (Let’s All Take Computers Home) technology program in five Baltimore City public schools: Baltimore Freedom Academy, Collington Square, Southwest Baltimore Charter, City Springs, and General Wolfe. Each school will identify 25 families to receive a computer, printer, software, Internet access, and computer maintenance service. Parents attend workshops to learn basic skills and how to help students with computer-based homework.
