Past Grants

Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers

For support of the Educational Funders Affinity Group. In this forum, grantmakers interested in educational issues and initiatives learn about school reform efforts, collaborative funding opportunities, and availability of educational resources and materials. In addition, three cities, including Baltimore, exchanged information of best practices, and learned about philanthropic endeavors in public education.

Core Knowledge Foundation

In support of the third year of the Core Knowledge Preschool Initiative in four Baltimore City Head Start Centers. Core Knowledge offers a skills-based curriculum and parent program that prepares 275 bilingual Head Start children for kindergarten, and provides teacher training covering the implementation of language, social skills, mathematical reasoning, number sense, and leadership. Comprehensive student baseline data will be collected for ongoing assessments of each child.

Saint Frances Academy/Peace Camp

To fund a six-week summer camp for 32 third, fourth, and fifth graders. The focus of the camp is the teaching of anger management as an alternative to violent responses popularized in the movies, hand-held video games, and television.

Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS)/ Academy for College and Career Exploration

To launch a Saturday Academy, an intensive weekly six-hour academic intervention during the school year to support struggling seniors. The goal of the effort is to realize a graduation rate of 90 percent of 12th graders for 2009, the first class that must pass the Maryland High School Assessments in order to graduate.

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School

To provide funding in support of scholarships for placement of up to eight incoming ninth-grade students in Baltimore City foster group homes. Cristo Rey Jesuit High School functions in a small-school setting with about 110 students in each grade in partnership with corporations, and offers a rigorous curriculum, transportation, social service options for students and families, mentoring, and one-day-per-week paid internships.