Past Grants

Maryland Film Festival

Toward the Friends of the Festival Campaign, established to create a major film festival in Baltimore. The program is designed to encourage film production in Baltimore City and Maryland, and increase the size of the festival’s audience for year-round events to 20,000 by 2007.

Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Coalition/ International Center for Sustainable Development

To promote hydrogen energy and fuel cell technologies in the Mid-Atlantic region. The Center will develop a website, quarterly newsletter, plan for a regional hydrogen energy conference in 2006, and create a database of regional information.

Neighborhoods of Greater Lauraville, Inc.

For continued support of housing and commercial revitalization programs designed to improve the communities of Arcadia, Beverly Hills, Lauraville, Moravia-Walther, Morgan Park, and Waltherson. This effort will focus on marketing the neighborhoods and providing access to renovation loans through an Abell Foundation guaranteed loan program.

Patterson Park Community Development Corporation

To fund the cleaning of streets and alleys in a 22-block area of the Patterson Park community. This effort is designed to help eliminate trash and create a visually appealing, comfortable, and secure environment.

Preservation Maryland

In support of the 2005 National Main Streets Conference. The conference will highlight Baltimore Main Streets as a successful urban program, using the Hippodrome Theater and the surrounding redeveloped area as an example. Attendees will learn how to identify, evaluate, preserve, protect, and interpret historic districts, sites, structures, cultural landscapes, and heritage areas.