Homeless Persons Representation Project, Inc.
$5,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Toward consultancy fees for the Labor Pool Organizing Project designed to advocate for greater government regulation and protection of temporary employees from unlawful practices.
Rose Street Community Center
$300,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Two grants in support of drug treatment and job training programs for FY 2002 and FY 2003. The Center supports job training, educational opportunities, after-school tutoring programs for neighborhood youth, and drug treatment programs. The Center also provides weekly stipends to program participants to assist with living expenses while they are enrolled in self-help programs.
Women’s Housing Coalition
$18,175 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For start-up costs of the Wesley House Family Program, a long-term transitional housing facility that serves nine homeless families referred from emergency, transitional and substance abuse treatment programs.
Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation
$25,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For second-year support of the Bon Secours Youth Employment and Career Development Project. The program helps high-school students to obtain after-school employment and plan future careers. It provides formal training sessions in financial literacy, leadership, and post-high school education planning.
Job Opportunities Task Force
$30,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the continuation of a comparative study of Baltimore’s workforce development system and workforce development systems in other cities with similar demographics. Components of the study include a review of the cities’ welfare-to-work systems; one-stop centers for adults who are not on welfare, youth programs, local community colleges’ curricula, public schools’ vocational and dropout prevention programs, literacy programs, and public housing workforce initiatives.