Action In Maturity, Inc.
$19,000 / 2007 / Community Development
Toward the purchase of a mini-bus to provide affordable transportation for low-income senior citizens in Baltimore City. By expanding transportation opportunities, the program seeks to increase mobility of elderly residents, enabling them to maintain their health and independence, and to create desirable neighborhoods and livable communities.
Alliance for Community Trees
$5,000 / 2007 / Community Development
For support of a national conference for urban forestry practitioners and community organizers.
Arnold Preservation Council, Inc.
$5,000 / 2007 / Community Development
For speakers’ travel fees and related expenses of a one-day conference on growth management in Anne Arundel County.
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
$49,000 / 2007 / Community Development
Toward support of the alley gating and greening initiative in Baltimore City. As a strategy to reduce crime and excess dumping and to increase property values, the Community Greens concept provides an opportunity for neighborhoods to reclaim their alleyways, broaden the possibilities for involvement in communal life, and improve their communities.
Associated Black Charities (ABC)
$5,000 / 2007 / Community Development
Toward the cost of a consultant to develop a long-term strategic plan. ABC was established to raise consciousness in the African American community to become self-sufficient, competitive, and contributing through responsible leadership; to promote philanthropy; and to increase resources toward supporting improvement of the community’s well-being.