Past Grants

Community Law Center, Inc.

For support of a program designed to provide legal remedy for Baltimore neighborhoods suffering from property neglect. In collaboration with the Citizens Planning and Housing Association, the Community Law Center will research, prepare, and file a lawsuit to force a specific real estate investor to bring his vacant properties in the neighborhood up to code and, as part of remedial action, transfer properties to responsible owners. The intent is to create a legal process for preventing property neglect and improve the quality of life in the affected neighborhoods.

Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc.

To hire a project coordinator for support of the Senior Home Repair and Modification Program in Northwest Baltimore. The program is designed to respond to the changing lifestyle needs of low-income senior and disabled homeowners by providing them with access to affordable home repair and modification services. These efforts are expected to improve the quality of life for the seniors and the disabled in their own homes and the surrounding neighborhoods.

1000 Friends of Maryland

Two-year funding in support of land use and transportation policy reform at the state and local levels, and an initiative to “Keep Farmers Farming.” A public agenda will be created by 1000 Friends to encourage the redevelopment of existing communities; advocate for the preservation of the state’s remaining open spaces, and agriculture and forest lands; and develop Smart Growth transit and transportation plans.

Health Care for the Homeless, Inc.

For a study to assess effects of a LEED (Leadership Environmental and Energy Design)-certified building on the working environment. Research will provide evidence of the impacts of the LEED building on the built environment, specifically, health, safety, and staff issues in health-care facilities.

Adopt A Block, Inc. ﾠ

Toward renovation costs of a house in East Baltimore as part of the week-long Compassion Commission Project. This summer program brings together more than 200 youth from the East Coast to participate in a week of volunteering committed to rebuilding an abandoned rowhouse, cleaning up alleys and neighborhood streets, and painting recreation centers and public schools.