Johns Hopkins University
$150,000 / 2009 / Community Development
Toward the establishment of The Lieber Institute, a psychiatric research facility, at the Johns Hopkins Science and Technology Park. Scientists conducting the research will focus on schizophrenia.
Maryland PIRG Foundation
$20,000 / 2009 / Community Development
Toward continued support of the Smart Energy Solutions Program, a statewide campaign designed to promote energy policies on energy efficiency and conservation.
Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore, Inc.
$25,000 / 2009 / Community Development
For support of home rehabilitation services created to enable elderly and low-income residents to remain in their homes.
Progressive Maryland Education Fund
$15,000 / 2009 / Community Development
For support of a study on Maryland’s living-wage law. The study will analyze the number of workers who have benefited from the law, the amount of additional income they have received, the cost to the state to implement the law, and the cost to the state if exemptions were to be eliminated.
Adopt A Block, Inc.
$5,000 / 2009 / Community Development
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.