Rebuilding Together Baltimore
$25,000 / 2007 / Community Development
To fund the salary of a part-time program manager. The program manager’s responsibilities include client relations, and volunteer and contractor management. This intensive oversight will help Rebuilding Together Baltimore to increase the numbers of low-income homeowners, particularly the elderly, disabled, and families with children, served in targeted neighborhoods.
Baltimore Community Lending
$25,000 / 2007 / Community Development
Toward support of the Baltimore Homeowner Emergency Loan Program (HELP), an initiative to provide refinancing options for predatory loan victims. The program objectives are to refinance 18 predatory loans, to provide two-year financial counseling and budgeting services for each refinanced family through St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, to make referrals to other needed services for 60 families, and to support future class-action lawsuits determined by Civil Justice, Inc. and St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center.
Resources for the Future
$25,000 / 2007 / Community Development
Toward expenses in support of a conference to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Maryland’s Smart Growth legislation. The conference is expected to identify strengths and weaknesses in the law, to present an assessment of how the Smart Growth laws are working, and to develop programming to strengthen state and local laws.
Baltimore Development Corporation
$25,000 / 2007 / Community Development
Toward continuing support of administrative expenses for Maglev-Maryland, a program to develop a magnetic levitation high-speed train between Baltimore and Washington. When fully operational, the train could reduce travel time between the two cities to less than 20 minutes.
Sandtown Habitat for Humanity
$5,000 / 2007 / Community Development
For a consultant’s fee to train Habitat staff on cost-effective techniques for insulating, sealing, and improving energy efficiency of houses they are renovating.