Past Grants

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.

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.

Greater Baltimore Committee Foundation, Inc .

For a research paper to determine whether expanded gaming would have a positive impact on economic development in Maryland.

Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc .

For continued support of neighborhoods targeted for revitalization. Healthy Neighborhoods, a partnership of banks, foundations, government, and community organizations, provides operating grants and a home purchase and improvement loan program to help underserved neighborhoods increase home values, market their communities, maintain efforts for property improvement, and increase the level of renovation and investment.