Past Grants

Baltimore Corps

Baltimore Corps supports Baltimore City’s social innovation sector by recruiting and deploying mission-driven young professionals to Baltimore City’s public agencies and social sector organizations. As the need for staffing in key COVID-related positions has increased, Baltimore Corps uses its expertise to assist City agencies by conducting targeted outreach with a focus on racial equity. This grant will support staff costs associated with core programmatic efforts to recruit, deploy and retain talent in Baltimore City.   

Baltimore Community ToolBank

Baltimore Community ToolBank lends tools and equipment to community based member organizations for a nominal fee. Items are typically used for community clean-ups, beautification, festivals, and other projects.  Due to social distancing guidelines, large scale volunteer deployment projects are not being implemented, and other projects to date have been limited to 10 or less volunteers. Fees generated from tool rental orders have decreased significantly, thus decreasing the ToolBank’s revenue. During the COVID-19 crisis, tools and equipment for use in support of emergency response activities and support are being provided at no charge for the duration of the crisis. This grant will support core program staff levels which will allow program implementation without interruption of service provision. 

Baltimore City Health Department, Fiscally Sponsored by Baltimore Civic Fund

The Baltimore City Health Department, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED), Baltimore Corps, Jhipiego, and Healthcare Access Maryland, is launching a $12.4 million initiative to control the transmission of COVID-19 through contact tracing and public health education outreach.  The initiative will hire 300 unemployed Baltimore residents and train them as contact tracers and community health workers, who will work for up to eight months, earning $38,000 a year plus benefits.  Those trained will build Baltimore’s public health infrastructure, helping to coordinate care for residents needing assistance.  With support from MOED, those trained will be placed into unsubsized employment.  

Baltimore’s Promise, Fiscally Sponsored by Fund for Educational Excellence

In support of the COVID-19 Response Funding Collaborative of Greater Baltimore, individual grants were awarded to the following organizations:

• 4MYCITY

• Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

• Asylee Women’s Enterprise

• Baltimore Job Hunter’s Support Group, Fiscally Sponsored by Corner Community Center

• The Broken Wall Community Church

• Black Yield Institute, Fiscally Sponsored by Fusion Partnerships, Inc.

• Catherine’s Family and Youth Services, Inc.

• Church of the Guardian Angel

• City of Refuge Baltimore, Inc.

• CollegeBound Foundation

• Civic Works, Inc.  

• Dent Education

• Digital Equity Initiative for Baltimore, Fiscally Sponsored by Digital Harbor Foundation

• Elev8 Baltimore, Fiscally Sponsored by Fund for Educational Excellence

• Farm Alliance of Baltimore

• Fishes and Loaves Pantry

• Humanim

• Immigration Outreach Center

• Impact Hub, Fiscally Sponsored by Maryland Philanthropy Network

• Intercultural Counseling Connections, Fiscally Sponsored by Fusion Partnerships, Inc.

• Italian Cultural Center

• Little Flowers

• Patterson Park Public Charter School

• Power52

• Southeast Community Development Corporation

• Turnaround, Inc.

• UEmpower of Maryland

• Women’s Housing Coalition

Urban Teachers

With Abell Foundation start-up funding, Urban Teachers launched a new model of teacher preparation in 2009, recruiting outstanding college graduates, training them in a year-long clinical preparation, providing classroom support over four years, and linking their certification to demonstration of effective teaching practices and student learning gains. In summer 2020, Urban Teachers will begin training another 100 new incoming Resident Teachers who co-teach with mentor teachers for the first year of a four-year commitment. This grant will enable Urban Teachers to embark upon a strategic planning process to reaccess and design a new business and financial model that will garner more earned reveue and reduce costs without impacting program quality. This model will further reduce reliance on philanthropy to 20% of the total budget, and reduce the financial burdens on teacher candidates.

In summer 2020, Urban Teachers will begin training another 100 new incoming Resident Teachers who co-teach with mentor teachers for the first year of a four-year commitment.