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.
Everyman Theatre, Inc .
$500,000 / 2008 / Community Development
Toward the renovation of the former Town Theatre, located at Fayette and Eutaw Streets, to create a new, expanded, and permanent home for Everyman Theatre. The four-story building will provide ample space for rehearsal halls; meeting rooms; scene, costume, and prop shops; administrative offices; a lobby; and increased seating capacity in the theater.
Greater Baltimore Committee Foundation, Inc .
$5,000 / 2008 / Community Development
For a research paper to determine whether expanded gaming would have a positive impact on economic development in Maryland.