Past Grants

Maryland Society for Sight

For continued support of the Mobile Eye Care for the Homeless Expansion Program. The program’s van visits seven locations each month. In an effort to prevent loss of vision and blindness through early detection and education, the staff provides eye examinations and glasses to more than 500 homeless and indigent people in Baltimore City each year.

Health Care for the Homeless

For the purchase of furniture and other household items for use by homeless persons moving from the streets and shelters into housing, through auspices of the Housing First Project.

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Two-year support of “A Maryland Initiative: Hospitals for a Healthy Environment,” designed to decrease the environmental impact of health care institutions in Maryland. The initiative will focus on encouraging the implementation of environmental health programs in Maryland hospitals, advocating for the reduction of medical waste by recycling and segregation of toxic products, eliminating mercury-containing products in health care facilities, and finding alternatives to medical waste incineration.

Maryland Food Bank

For support of the Baltimore City School Pantry Program. In exchange for volunteering in the schools, parents are eligible to attend classes on nutrition, budgeting, and meal planning, and to receive free food once a month.

Maryland Regional Practitioners’ Network

Planning grant for the development of Boys to Men, a pregnancy prevention program for eighth-grade boys in Baltimore City public schools.