Past Grants

Community Law Center, Inc.

Two-year funding for the Real Estate Services Project created to fight the blight of vacant housing in marketable neighborhoods. The goals of this project are to ensure that existing residents remain confident about their neighborhoods, to keep City housing stock competitive with suburban housing markets, and to stimulate reinvestment in City housing.

Community Law Center, Inc.

In support of a community organizing initiative designed to prevent the private property of evicted tenants from being placed in public right-of-ways.

Downtown Partnership of Baltimore.

For staffing support of the Code Enforcement/Facade Improvement Grant Program. By offering matching grants to property owners for investing in their building facades, the Partnership intends to encourage private investment in downtown properties and businesses, and to improve the physical appearance and market appeal of Baltimore City’s downtown. The program targets buildings that are in violation of zoning and building codes.

Empower Baltimore Management Corporation

For a consultancy service to prepare a proposal for EBMC’s application for the New Markets Tax Credit. This new urban revitalization tool approved by Congress in 2000 is intended to increase the amount of capital available to businesses located in communities where poverty exceeds 20 percent.

Friends of Patterson Park

For support of BikeJam 2002, an urban cycling festival held in Patterson Park.