Up2Us Sports
In support of placing Up2Us AmeriCorps Coaches in Baltimore City Recreation Centers to provide expanded youth sports and fitness programming.
Urban Teachers
In support of general operations for Urban Teachers, a rigorous four-year teacher recruitment and training model that features a 14-month clinical teacher residency. In 2022, Urban Teachers will support 364 residents and teachers.
Vehicles for Change, Inc.
In support of providing 50 returning citizens with paid work experience, repairing cars for Vehicle for Change’s Full Circle Service Center. Program graduates are placed into jobs as certified automotive mechanics, earning at least $17 per hour.
Asylee Women Enterprise
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE) provides asylum seekers, particularly women and children with comprehensive services and community. This two-year grant supports AWE’s partnership with Luminus, which is a legal services organization that has been accredited by the Department of Justice, to provide comprehensive legal services to 40 AWE clients that reside in Baltimore City per year over two years.
Attendance Works, Fiscally Sponsored by Community Initiatives
Attendance Works will partner with the Success For All Foundation (SFA) in Baltimore City to provide an integrated attendance mentoring strategy, paired with intensive tutoring to negate learning loss and narrow equity gaps. Training for at least 22 tutors on how to effectively respond to absences and promote attendance is modeled after the Success Mentors initiative in New York that successfully yielded reduced absenteeism of nearly two weeks (nine days of school) for around 60,000 students between the years of 2010 and 2013.