Past Grants

Baltimore City Department of Planning

Two-year funding for the implementation of the Food Policy Task Force recommendations. Initiatives include strategies to increase access to healthy, affordable food particularly in the “food deserts” in underserved neighborhoods in Baltimore City. By working with community partners, the Food Policy Director will support the development of the Virtual Supermarket, an online order and delivery service; expansion of farmers’ markets; revitalization of public markets to offer fresh local produce; development of a food circulator bus providing transportation for public housing residents to grocery stores and farmers’ markets; and maintenance of urban agricultural production and distribution.

CivicWorks

Toward expenses related to the installation of a walk-in cooler for the Real Food Farm at Clifton Park for the purpose of extending the shelf life of produce between harvest and the marketplace.

Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Concern

Toward Phase II of Project Gado, a robotic scanning technology initiative. By adopting a social enterprise model to build a revised, easier-to-assemble version of the robotic scanner, the project will digitize archival images, which will serve as primary sources for publishers, film-makers, and researchers. The scanned images can then be entered into a Web-enabled database system for eventual publishing online.

Rebuilding Together Baltimore

For support of a program allowing for low-cost home repair services for 50 low-income senior and disabled homeowners, making it possible for them to remain in their homes in Baltimore City neighborhoods.

Baltimore Community Foundation

Toward support of the 2011 Baltimore City Annual Sustainability Report, which will serve as an accountability tool to track Baltimore’s progress toward improving the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of the city.