The Restoration Conservancy
$5,000 / 2003 / Community Development
For research to investigate options for amending Maryland State brownfields laws to conform to federal laws.
Baltimore Efficiency & Economy Foundation, Inc.
$5,000 / 2003 / Community Development
For an evaluation of the Department of Recreation and Parks Aquatics Division’s management of Baltimore City swimming pools.
Baltimore Heritage, Inc.
$5,000 / 2003 / Community Development
For expenses related to workshops designed to encourage the use of historic rehabilitation tax credit incentives in Baltimore City’s historic districts.
Belair-Edison Neighborhoods, Inc.
$25,000 / 2003 / Community Development
Toward expenses of the Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative, which will help fund the collaborative effort to strengthen participating Baltimore neighborhoods. Expenses funded include salary for a marketing coordinator to promote neighborhood reinvestment and to match homeowners and homebuyers to home improvement financing opportunities.
Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity
$90,000 / 2003 / Community Development
For partial renovation costs of 15 vacant houses for sale to low-and middle-income families, and for the purchase of a pickup truck to facilitate construction.