Community Resources
$30,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the development of the Metro Green Urban Tree Nursery and Training Center. Established on a reclaimed brownfield to provide a source of street trees, the Center will also offer horticultural and tree care training and landscaping skills to unemployed Baltimore City residents.
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
$12,750 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the completion of a study on Medicaid managed care and family planning in Baltimore City. The research addresses two issues: the path women take as they move from traditional Medicaid coverage to enrollment in managed care organizations; and how mandated managed care affects the providers of reproductive health services to the Medicaid population.
Second Chance Project, Inc.
$85,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Two-year funding to create a revenue-producing business that employs ex-offenders participating in the Second Chance program.
The Daisyfields Foundation, Inc.
$25,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Toward the purchase of property to house a foster care facility for infants who are medically fragile as the result of being born addicted to drugs or being neglected by a substance-abusing caregiver.
The Justice Policy Institute/The Tides Center
$49,733 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
To provide seed funding for the establishment of a new organization that will address adult and juvenile justice reform issues in the State of Maryland. The agency will provide technical assistance and training to local agencies to help determine the most effective methods of delivering neighborhood-based services to needy populations.