The Piney Woods School
$118,200 / 2007 / Education
To provide scholarships for 13 under-achieving, at-risk male students from Baltimore City to attend a college preparatory boarding school in Mississippi for the 2007-2008 school year. The grant includes funding for a resident counselor to encourage positive attitudes, appropriate social behaviors, and academic achievement.
Baltimore City College Alumni Association
$5,000 / 2007 / Education
Toward support of the 2007-2008 Speech and Debate Program.
Educational Opportunity Program
$172,900 / 2007 / Education
To provide facilitators for EOP students at each of the two new Southwestern High Schools. The purpose of the program is to increase the high school graduation rate of Baraka School graduates, to provide them with tutoring, enrichment activities, and academic and social support.
Project Garrison/Meet Me Halfway Village Center
$5,000 / 2007 / Education
Toward operating support of an in-school mentoring program for at-risk students at Garrison Middle School and Forest Park High School.
Baltimore City Public School System/National Academic League
$109,740 / 2007 / Education
For support of the 2007-2008 National Academic League in 22 Baltimore City public middle schools. The league, engaging more than 550 students, provides extracurricular interscholastic programming in an atmosphere of competition traditionally associated with athletic events. The purpose of the program is to increase students’ awareness of local, national, and international current events, and strengthen background knowledge in all disciplines, particularly mathematics.