Office of the Mayor
$25,000 / 2004 / Education
In support of the Believe in Our Schools Campaign. The focus of the campaign is to seek private funding partners to support facility improvements in Baltimore City public schools.
Park West Health System, Inc./ Park West Medical Center
$55,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
For the establishment of the Hidden Gardens HIV and Substance Abuse Program, a buprenorphine detoxification and stabilization initiative designed to address the problem of HIV-positive heroin users in the Park Heights corridor. Buprenorphine reduces the suffering associated with withdrawal; the less painful withdrawal experience increases the likelihood that an addict will complete detoxification, considered the first critical step toward abstinence, and will be more receptive to treatment services offered at the center.
Parks & People Foundation
$60,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
In support of the Hooked on Sports program for more than 1,100 Baltimore City public school students. The program, which includes lacrosse, baseball, volleyball, and soccer, provides opportunities for organized and safe after-school activity. Participants are required to maintain at least a C average and 90 percent attendance.
Partnership For Learning
$30,000 / 2004 / Education
For the staffing of an education coordinator and the purchase of education materials for an initiative designed to reduce recidivism and increase academic outcomes of first-time juvenile offenders with learning difficulties. The partnership’s program provides literacy tutoring, mentoring and motivational services. The Piney Woods School, 90,690 Piney Woods, MS. To provide scholarships at a boarding school in Mississippi for selected, underachieving at-risk male students from Baltimore City for the 2004-2005 school year. The grant includes funding for a counselor to encourage positive attitudes, appropriate social behavior, and academic achievement.
Patterson Park Community Development Corporation
$100,000 / 2004 / Community Development
Toward staffing costs of a position to provide oversight of all planned development and construction projects. Through purchase and rehabilitation of housing stock for resale to homeowners or for rent to responsible tenants, the CDC is helping to repopulate the area and invigorate real estate prices.
