Past Grants

St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center

For continued support of the legal services initiative to fight predatory real estate practices in Baltimore City. The center will bring lawsuits against property sellers, mortgage brokers, appraisers, and title companies involved in fraudulent practices. Efforts will include education about deceptive home sales.

St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center

To fund the purchase of 60 vacant houses in Northeast Baltimore. St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center is serving as an Asset Control manager for FHA foreclosures of the houses being renovated and sold to new homeowners in a long-range effort to stabilize the neighborhoods and raise standards of renovation.

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.

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.

Baltimore Efficiency & Economy Foundation, Inc.

For an evaluation of the Department of Recreation and Parks Aquatics Division’s management of Baltimore City swimming pools.