Past Grants

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

Toward support of the Vocational Rehabilitation Services’ Youth Achieving Potential program. The program offers career assessment, paid work experiences, and placement services for 80 high school seniors with special needs from four Baltimore City public schools. After being placed in jobs, participants receive six months of counseling to help ensure appropriate on-the-job performance.

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.

The Community School, Inc.

For continued support of an alternative school setting for an academic and mentoring program serving youth and adults in the Remington community. This high school alternative program parallels the regular course of study in all content areas, with the goal of qualifying students to pass the GED, and obtain a job or enter college. The Community School serves as a site for the External Diploma Program, which allows adults to earn a Maryland high school diploma by demonstrating experiential learning.

The Ingenuity Project

For support of the 2008-2009 Ingenuity Project, a gifted and talented math, science, and research program at three Baltimore City public middle schools and one flagship high school. Qualified students are identified and exposed to a program designed to develop them into nationally competitive, college-bound math, science, and engineering students.

The Piney Woods School

To provide scholarships for 11 male students from at-risk environments in Baltimore City to attend a college-preparatory boarding school in Mississippi for the 2008-2009 school year. This grant includes funds for a resident counselor to help each student adjust to boarding school, by encouraging positive attitudes, study habits, appropriate social behavior, and academic achievement.