Pennsylvania Avenue Panthers Football Club
$5,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
Toward equipment, uniforms, and related expenses of the Panthers Football Club for children in the Upton community. The program is designed to help provide sports, cheerleading, tutoring, and mentoring as healthy and safe alternatives to a life on street corners and continuing involvement with the juvenile justice system.
B-SPIRIT-A2Y
$40,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of after-school tutoring and mentoring programs for at-risk students in the Park Heights Community. The program, along with tutoring and mentoring, provides utilities, insurance, and security monitoring for the newly renovated and expanded After-School Institute. Located in one of the poorest and most distressed neighborhoods in Baltimore, B-Spirit offers an opportunity to 50 younger people to take advantage of programming designed to improve their quality of life.
Reclaiming Our Children and Community Project, Inc.
$100,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
Toward the purchase of a building to help support after-school programs for at-risk youth in Southwest Baltimore. Operating as a community center, the project serves approximately 60 children and adolescents in an after-school program providing homework assistance and recreational activities while their parents are working.
East Baltimore Christian Athletic Association/EZRA
$10,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of youth athletic programs for 375 inner-city children, ages nine to 17. Adult volunteers coach and teach fundamentals of playing organized sports while at the same time instilling values of sportsmanship, hard work, discipline, and respect.
The Salvation Army
$5,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
For general support of services for the homeless and needy.