Banner Neighborhoods Community Corporation
$25,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the Patterson Park Youth Program, developed to provide activities for more than 400 neighborhood children. The program includes support of basketball and football leagues, reading and art clubs, and a summer youth employment program. Adult volunteers serve as coaches, mentors, teachers, and tutors.
The Justice Policy Institute
$50,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
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.
$80,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
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.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Maryland, Inc.
$100,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
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.
Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.
$150,000 / 2004 / Health and Human Services
Fifth-year funding of the Child Support/Barriers to Employment Project, an initiative designed to address the financial needs of noncustodial parents with child support obligations. The program provides individual representation to more than 200 noncustodial parents, addressing systemic problems within the child support enforcement system.