Past Grants

Rebuilding Together Baltimore

Two-year funding for staffing to expand programs providing emergency repairs to low-income homeowners through volunteers and donations.

Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development

Second-year funding for the Neighborhood Conservation Program, a community conservation initiative in the outer-ring neighborhoods such as Ashburton, Forest Park, Lauraville and Windsor Hills. The purpose of the project is to identify vacant properties within highly marketable neighborhoods and to determine whether current owners intend to reinvest, whether the properties are suitable for acquisition and rehabilitation, and whether abandoned properties should be demolished.

Reservoir Hill Improvement Council

Toward staffing costs of a rehabilitation specialist and a housing counselor to support the first year of Baltimore City’s acquisition, renovation and resale of 200 houses in an effort to revitalize the Reservoir Hill neighborhood.

Baltimore Development Corporation

For administrative expenses of Maglev-Maryland, a program to support the development of a magnetic levitation high-speed train. When fully operational, the train will reduce travel time between Baltimore and Washington to less than 20 minutes.

The Restoration Conservancy

For research to investigate options for amending Maryland State brownfields laws to conform to federal laws.