Pennsylvania Avenue Panthers Football Club
$5,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
Toward equipment, uniforms, and related expenses of the Panthers Football Club for children in the Upton community. The program is designed to help provide sports, cheerleading, tutoring, and mentoring as healthy and safe alternatives to a life on street corners and continuing involvement with the juvenile justice system.
Reclaiming Our Children and Community Project, Inc.
$100,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
Toward the purchase of a building to help support after-school programs for at-risk youth in Southwest Baltimore. Operating as a community center, the project serves approximately 60 children and adolescents in an after-school program providing homework assistance and recreational activities while their parents are working.
Sandi’s Learning Center
$100,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
Continued capital support toward completion of a daycare center in the Rosemont neighborhood of West Baltimore. The center will provide developmental and educational childcare and after-school services for 200 children from birth to 12.
Santa Claus Anonymous
$5,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
For support of the 2007 Santa Claus Anonymous Campaign.
South Baltimore Emergency Relief, Inc. (SOBER)
$15,000 / 2007 / Health and Human Services
For general support and for the energy assistance program. SOBER provides food supplies and other basic necessities to more than 250 clients per month. Energy assistance grants are awarded to up to 100 clients who have received utility turn-off notices.