Past Grants

The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute

For support of the Community Health Worker Program, which provides free health services to the uninsured in East Baltimore. The institute will recruit ten AmeriCorps volunteers from East Baltimore to serve as community health workers; after training, each worker will follow as many as 50 patients, providing individual medical monitoring and support through home visits and telephone calls. The status of each patient will be tracked by computers.

Rose Street Community Center

Two grants for continued support of rehabilitation services for ex-offenders, residents recovering from substance abuse, and at-risk youth. The center provides transitional housing and case management to an average of 30 men per week, linking them to employment. It provides stipends to an average of 40 other participants each week to assist with living expenses, and provides youth with after-school and community activities.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Maryland, Inc.

In support of Amachi, a mentoring program for children whose parent (or parents) are incarcerated. The program will place 335 children with adult mentors. It is expected that the selective placements will lead to improvement in the children’s school performance and help in combating substance abuse, increase children’s and parents’ self-confidence, and stabilize relationships among peers and teachers.

The Justice Policy Institute

To provide research and guidance to the Campaign for Treatment Not Incarceration, designed to reduce Maryland’s prison population and expand drug treatment and alternatives to incarceration.

St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, Inc.

For the establishment of the Learn to Earn Program, a job training readiness program at the St. Ambrose Outreach Center. The program helps participants improve language arts, math, and computer skills; prepare and obtain GEDs; and seek, secure and retain jobs.