DRU/Mondawmin Healthy Families, Inc.
$5,000 / 2009 / Health and Human Services
To provide supportive services for pregnant women, infants, and children in the Druid Heights, Reservoir Hill, Upton, and Mondawmin catchment areas.
Pimlico Road Youth Program
$35,000 / 2009 / Health and Human Services
Challenge grant toward operating costs of an academic and arts program for children and youth. The program is a collaboration between St. John’s Lutheran Church and Holy Nativity Episcopal Church, and offers a safe place for 45 neighborhood children. The after-school program provides academic assistance, a computer lab, art, music, and dance instruction, and recreational activities five days a week.
The Downtown Sailing Center
$30,000 / 2008 / Health and Human Services
For support of the center’s outreach programs, which include an Accessible Sailing Program for persons with physical disabilities, as well as sailing instruction programs for children from disadvantaged communities. The program utilizes volunteers to help maintain optimum instructor-to-sailor ratios, and teaches safety, self-confidence, communication, leadership skills, and teamwork.
Parks & People Foundation
$60,000 / 2008 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the Hooked on Sports program for Baltimore City public school students. The multi-sport program serves more than 1,100 students participating in soccer, baseball, volleyball, and lacrosse leagues. This after-school program stresses the basic fundamentals of organized sports, and the value of teamwork and fair play. The organizers monitor academic achievement and attendance; participants are required to maintain a “C” average and at least a 95 percent school attendance rate.
Empire Homes of Maryland
$150,000 / 2008 / Health and Human Services
Capital funding toward the completion of Restoration Gardens, a 43-unit permanent supportive rental housing development in the lower Park Heights community, to serve homeless, at-risk young adults, ages 18 to 24. These affordable units will be subsidized by Section 8 vouchers. Referrals to supportive services, such as job training and placement, substance abuse treatment and mental health services will be provided to enable the residents to gain the stability and skills needed to live independently.