Past Grants

Homes for America

For legal fees incurred in connection with the development of housing for families relocating from Baltimore City public housing into stable mixed-income communities in metropolitan Baltimore.

Live Baltimore Home Center

For continued support of marketing activities to promote the benefits of living in Baltimore City. The center provides information on its Web site, including neighborhood profiles, buyers’ incentive programs, and benefits of city living. The overall goals of these efforts are to reverse the loss of population, and increase Baltimore City’s tax base.

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.