Second Chance, Inc.
$23,000 / 2003 / Health and Human Services
To provide trainee stipends for a job training program in construction industry trades for unemployed Baltimore residents.
Baltimore City Office of Homeless Services
$5,000 / 2003 / Health and Human Services
For two summer interns to research the effectiveness of the City’s eviction prevention program and prepare an analysis of the Code Blue Program, a supplemental emergency shelter system activated in inclement cold weather, during the winter of 2002-2003.
Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake, Inc.
$132,233 / 2003 / Health and Human Services
Third-year funding of the SEETTS program (Supporting Ex-Offenders in Employment, Training and Transitional Services), a workforce development initiative for persons leaving Maryland prisons and returning to Baltimore City. The program, providing 14 weeks of transitional services for up to 120 inmates at a time, assists participants in securing gainful employment through job readiness.
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
$50,000 / 2003 / Health and Human Services
To support the Baltimore CASH (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) Campaign, an initiative to increase the use of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and free income tax preparation service. The goal of the program is to increase the number of tax returns prepared for low-income taxpayers eligible to receive the EITC.
Sharp-Leadenhall Planning Committee
$24,216 / 2003 / Health and Human Services
For the purchase and installation of video cameras inside and outside the Sharp-Leadenhall development, designed to control crime.