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Past Grants

Past grants archive does not include small grants of $10,000 or less.

The Community School, Inc.

$5,000 / 2009 / Education
For continued support of an alternative school with emphasis on academics and mentoring, serving youth and adults in the Remington and Hampden communities. In addition to a full-time individualized ten-hour day program for high school students, The Community School is offering a college support program and part-time employment for students who have enrolled in college.

Fund for Educational Excellence

$25,000 / 2009 / Education
For the development of the Urban Teacher Center (UTC), the mission of which is to prepare teachers for the country’s neediest urban schools. The center recruits candidates, equips them with state-of-the-art training, and links certification to the performance of their students. UTC fellows must make a four-year commitment: one year of residency, followed by three years as a full-time teacher in a high-needs urban school.

HOPE Worldwide Baltimore

$60,000 / 2009 / Education
Two grants toward support of the TRUTH Youth Services Program for at-risk males at Northeast Middle School through the 2009-2010 school year. The program, a year-round effort, provides cognitive development, field trips, career exploration, mentoring, reading, and training in life-skills, and a summer learning camp for 40 young men displaying risk factors in the sixth grade.

Incentive Mentoring Program

$69,056 / 2009 / Education
For continued support and expansion of an intensive mentoring program at Dunbar High School to include identification of a new cohort of ninth-grade students during the 2009-2010 school year. The program offers community service activities, after-school tutoring, SAT preparation, and college access and retention support over the course of seven years. Teams of eight to 12 mentors, primarily from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, work with each of the 15 students in each cohort to provide family-style, one-on-one mentoring two to seven times a week.

The Ingenuity Project

$400,000 / 2009 / Education
For support of the 2009-2010 Ingenuity Project, a gifted and talented math, science, and research magnet program serving 465 students in three Baltimore City public middle schools and at Baltimore Polytechnic High School. The program is designed to qualify students as nationally competitive, college-bound math, science, and engineering scholars.

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