Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
$53,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For general support and staffing of Maternity Center East, a women’s health care and family planning facility serving low-income residents of East Baltimore. The Center provides family planning, prenatal, obstetric and primary health care to approximately 3,000 patients who are uninsured or underinsured.
The Samaritan Center
$111,300 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Three grants in support of the Travel Voucher Program. The program provides homeless persons in need of travel assistance with vouchers for bus travel, if they have a contact in a destination city willing to take them in or assist them in finding housing.
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.