Past Grants

Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies

For the 2009 Abell Foundation Award in Urban Policy. This award is given to a graduate student who researches and writes an essay identifying an urban problem, and proposes a data-based solution.

Johns Hopkins University

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

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.

For support of home rehabilitation services created to enable elderly and low-income residents to remain in their homes.

Progressive Maryland Education Fund

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.