Past Grants

Fund for Educational Excellence

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.

Baltimore City Public School System/ Baltimore City College

For support of teacher recruitment and professional development designed to strengthen the International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) programs. The purpose of the initiative is to recruit three highly qualified teachers, one each in physics, statistics, and history; and to provide summer training in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program for all eight City College IB teachers committed to increasing the number of 11th-grade and 12th-grade participants.

DonorsChoose, Inc .

For support of a national nonprofit donation website that provides the opportunity for Baltimore City and other public school teachers to post proposals online for needed teaching resources, materials, and equipment. Potential donors then browse the teacher postings and are able to fund requests online in full or in part.

Teach For America-Baltimore

For continuation of an initiative to recruit and train 85 Teach For America Corps members, and work with 75 second-year corps members committed to teaching in Baltimore City public schools. These recent college graduates, who commit to work in classrooms for two years, are offered the opportunity to earn a Master of Arts in teaching at The Johns Hopkins University.

Baltimore City Public School System/ Early Identification and Intervention Project

Funding in support of a one-year demonstration project designed to test expanded delivery of the BCPSS Early Identification and Intervention Project to pre-K and first-grade students at Barclay Elementary/Middle School and Edgewood Elementary School. The project is intended to measure the effectiveness of a reading intervention specialist as a core member of the educational team in achieving grade-level performance at the end of first grade, and of reducing the number of failures in kindergarten.