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Past Grants

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

The Community School, Inc.

$15,000 / 2007 / Education
For general support of an alternative school setting for an academic and mentoring program serving students in the Remington community. The grant will provide programming designed to increase enrollment of disadvantaged students and prepare them for graduation and enrollment in college. The school also plans to launch an External Diploma Program designed for adults without a high school diploma by offering the opportunity to meet the requirements for a Maryland State high school diploma.

The Maryland Mentoring Partnership

$5,000 / 2007 / Education
Toward expenses of an executive search, and for support in the transition to a new executive director and his or her administration.

Core Knowledge Foundation

$270,980 / 2007 / Education
Two grants in support of the Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence Initiative in four Baltimore City Head Start Centers for March 2007 through June 2008. The initiative provides teacher training covering the implementation of language, social, mathematical reasoning, and number sense skills; leadership development; Core Knowledge resources and supplies; effective responses to issues of educating children with English as a Second Language, and collecting a comprehensive student baseline data for ongoing assessments of each child.

New Leaders for New Schools

$110,000 / 2007 / Education
For continued support of the New Leaders-Baltimore program created to recruit and develop school principals for Baltimore City public schools. The four-year program provides recruiting, training, and placing of a minimum of 40 principals in the schools over a three-year period. Each participant attends a six-week Summer Foundations Institute, undertakes a year-long, full-time residency with a mentor, then after placement, is given two years of professional development, coaching, and support.

Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance

$5,000 / 2007 / Education
For continued support of programs designed to integrate the arts into the curriculum of Maryland’s public schools.

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