Parks & People Foundation
$60,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the Hooked on Sports program for Baltimore City public school students. The multi-sport program serves more than 1,100 children and includes soccer, baseball, volleyball, and lacrosse leagues. Along with playing-field skills, participants are taught the basic fundamentals of playing organized sports and the value of teamwork and fair play. The organizers monitor academic achievement and attendance, and encourage achievement and excellence.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Maryland, Inc. (BBBSCM)
$100,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
For continued support and expansion of the Amachi mentoring program, designed to provide emotional support to 650 children of incarcerated parents. The program links these children with adult mentors, provides professional case management support, and engages the incarcerated in a mentoring program designed to facilitate a comfortable transition after release. BBBSCM will collect data on outcomes, including school performance, substance use, and relationships with peers and adults, so as to keep a measure on how effectively the program is working.
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.