Past Grants

Baltimore City Public School System/National Academy Foundation High School (NAF)

Planning grant for the establishment of an Academy of Engineering for the 2011-2012 school year. NAF will expand its career and technology program with an Academy of Engineering designed to prepare graduates for entrance into post-secondary engineering and technology curricula.

The Piney Woods School

To provide scholarships for nine male students from Baltimore City to attend a college preparatory boarding school for the 2009-2010school year, and for the salary of a retention counselor. The counselor provides a range of services: monitoring class attendance and participation, overseeing study hall and dormitory behavior, and acting as a liaison and advocate for students and their families.

Baltimore County Agricultural Resource Center

For the rental of a diesel tractor to be used for the establishment of the Great Kids Farm Project run by Baltimore City public schools. The farm equipment will help transform the abandoned 33-acre former Bragg Nature Center into a functioning organic farm for an educational and vocational training setting linked to the Baltimore City Public School System’s Farm to Cafeteria initiative.

Teach For America-Baltimore

Two grants for the continuation and expansion of an initiative to double the number of recent college graduates recruited and trained to 160, and to provide ongoing support for the 80 returning Teach For America corps members in Baltimore City public schools.

Baltimore Reads, Inc.

Toward the creation of a business plan for financial stability of the Baltimore Reads Book Bank, which provides donated books to city schools and community programs. The plan will explore a social entrepreneurship model to create a Book Exchange as a revenue stream.