Empower Baltimore Management Corporation
$75,000 / 2002 / Community Development
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
$5,000 / 2002 / Community Development
For support of BikeJam 2002, an urban cycling festival held in Patterson Park.
Greater Baltimore Committee
$5,000 / 2002 / Community Development
For a study on the economic impact of a new arena in downtown Baltimore.
Baltimore Development Corporation
$30,000 / 2001 / Community Development
Two grants for administrative expenses of Maglev-Maryland, a magnetic levitation high-speed train which, when fully operational, will reduce travel time between Baltimore and Washington to less than 20 minutes.
Patterson Park Community Development Corporation
$25,000 / 2001 / Community Development
For independent accounting services for a community development corporation experiencing extensive growth. Through housing acquisition, rehabilitations, sales and rentals, the corporation has been able to abate the deterioration of neighborhoods north and east of Patterson Park