Live Baltimore Home Center
$25,000 / 2005 / Community Development
For support of Live Baltimore’s House Auction Project. Intended to promote the Station North neighborhood, the project calls for the conversion of a vacant house into a showcase home, and marketing it before putting it up for auction. The goal is to encourage redevelopment and investment.
The Loading Dock
$100,000 / 2005 / Community Development
For purchase, renovation, and relocation costs of a new facility to provide affordable recycled building materials for housing and community improvement. By doubling the size of its facility, the Loading Dock will be able to serve more customers in Baltimore City and in metropolitan area.
Maryland Film Festival
$18,500 / 2005 / Community Development
Toward the Friends of the Festival Campaign, established to create a major film festival in Baltimore. The program is designed to encourage film production in Baltimore City and Maryland, and increase the size of the festival’s audience for year-round events to 20,000 by 2007.
Greater Baltimore Committee
$120,000 / 2004 / Community Development
Toward the cost of publicity and preparation of materials for environmental hearings related to the high-speed train initiative, Baltimore-Washington Maglev.
Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc.
$100,000 / 2004 / Community Development
For general support of a partnership of banks, foundations, and government and community organizations committed to strengthening underserved neighborhoods. Benefits to the ten designated neighborhoods are expected to stabilize property values and improve quality of life.