Partnership For Learning
$30,000 / 2004 / Education
For the staffing of an education coordinator and the purchase of education materials for an initiative designed to reduce recidivism and increase academic outcomes of first-time juvenile offenders with learning difficulties. The partnership’s program provides literacy tutoring, mentoring and motivational services. The Piney Woods School, 90,690 Piney Woods, MS. To provide scholarships at a boarding school in Mississippi for selected, underachieving at-risk male students from Baltimore City for the 2004-2005 school year. The grant includes funding for a counselor to encourage positive attitudes, appropriate social behavior, and academic achievement.
The Baltimore Algebra Project
$5,000 / 2003 / Education
In support of the summer training/planning session for the Math Literacy Workers program for the 2003-2004 school year.
Johns Hopkins University/Center for Social Organization of Schools
$25,135 / 2003 / Education
For the 2003-2004 evaluations of designated Abell-funded education initiatives.
Baltimore City Public School System/Baltimore City College
$37,990 / 2003 / Education
For continued support of the 2003-2004 Speech and Debate/Mock Trial Program.
KIPP Foundation
$10,000 / 2003 / Education
A planning grant for the KIPP Harbor Academy As a small, middle school model, KIPP is built on the philosophy of high expectations, student and family commitment, longer school hours, autonomous school leadership and focus on academic achievement. Students are expected to make a commitment to the fine and performing arts in after-school and Saturday morning programming.