Past Grants

Adopt A Block, Inc.

Toward expenses incurred by Compassion Commission, a youth-driven program that assembles 200 youth to participate in a week of volunteering. Projects include renovating a vacant rowhouse, cleanup of alleys and neighborhood streets, community greening, and painting recreation centers and public schools in the Greenmount, Station North, and Oliver Street neighborhoods.

The Baltimore Community Foundation, Inc.

Two grants for support of the Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge pilot project that will operate in selected low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. The project is designed to instruct residents on how to reduce high energy costs and consumption. Civic Works will train neighborhood leaders using their own houses as models.

Banner Neighborhoods Community Corporation

For continued support of the Home Maintenance Program developed to assist more than 130 elderly, low-income homeowners to remain in their homes in Southeast Baltimore. Banner Neighborhoods makes minor repairs, undertakes general maintenance, and provides education about energy-saving measures.

Center for Emerging Media

For general operating support of the Marc Steiner radio show. The daily interview format with selected guests, along with follow-up call-in questions, addresses timely topics of community interest.

Civil Justice, Inc.

For support of an initiative, “Filling a Vital Gap in Foreclosure Prevention Through Pro Se Bankruptcy”. In addition to counseling, the project provides legal assistance in an effort to create a plan to assist homeowners facing foreclosure.