Grants

Teach For America-Baltimore

For continuation of an initiative to recruit, train, and support 85 to 100 Teach For America corps members teaching in Baltimore City public schools. These recent college graduates make a two-year commitment and are offered the opportunity to earn a Master of Arts in teaching at the Johns Hopkins University.

Stadium School Youth Dreamers, Inc.

Toward renovation costs of 1430 Carswell Street to be used as a youth-run, after-school youth center in the Waverly/Coldstream-Homestead- Montebello communities. The center will provide a safe place for children to take enrichment classes after school, to be tutored, and build positive relationships with adults in the neighborhood.

The SEED Foundation

Toward the establishment of a boarding school for at-risk youth in Baltimore City. The two-year planning effort will include the creation of a board of directors, the launching of a capital campaign, identification and securing of a site, completion of design and construction of a campus, hiring of school leadership and staff, and recruitment of students.

The Piney Woods School

To provide scholarships for selected underachieving, at-risk, male Baltimore City students to attend a boarding school in Mississippi for the 2006-2007 school year. The grant includes funding for a resident counselor to encourage positive attitudes, appropriate social behaviors, and academic achievement.

Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

For continued support and expansion of the Music Teacher Mentoring Program for 87 new and recently hired elementary and middle school teachers for the 2006-2007 school year. The program upgrades teachers’ classroom techniques and strategies by providing demonstrations, workshops, video-taping, and one-on-one coaching in the classroom. The goal is to implement enhanced music curricula that meet state and national content standards, and to increase the teacher retention rate.