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.

Boys’ Latin School of Maryland

Two grants to support tutoring, a meal plan, and a scholarship for a former Baraka School student.

Learning, Inc.

For continued support and expansion of The Learning Cooperative, a dropout prevention program for at-risk and over-age middle school students in Baltimore City public schools. The Learning Cooperative is an alternative to the traditional school setting, and offers an experimental curriculum to engage students in challenging individual and team-building initiatives, conflict-resolution training, environmental sciences, fine arts, job readiness community service, and life skills.