Nazareth Lutheran Church
$15,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Seed funding for renovations and the purchase of furniture for Nazareth House, operating as a transitional housing facility for recovering male addicts in Highlandtown. The house will be operated based on Oxford House principles of self-governance.
Unity Center of Christianity
$18,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the Do You Know Where Your Children Are? program for the 2002-2003 school year. This grassroots project offers incentives to participating parents and other adults who assume full responsibility for knowing where their middle-school children are during the afternoon and evening hours of the school week.
Baltimore Pediatric HIV Program, Inc.
$26,142 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the purchase of a 15-passenger van to transport children with HIV/AIDS (ages two to four) and their parents served by the Day and Respite Program. The comprehensive and holistic program includes full-day child care, parental support groups, outreach and referral services, and prevention and educational programs.
Heart’s Place Shelter
$10,710 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For renovations to a kitchen and bathrooms in a winter emergency shelter for homeless men, women and children in the Midtown area.
Neighbor to Family
$100,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Seed funding for the establishment of the Neighbor to Family Sibling Foster Care Program in Baltimore City. The program will provide comprehensive foster care services to 40 children in sibling groups. The foster parents, trained by Neighbor to Family caseworkers, will be given a stipend above the normal foster care rate to enable a parent to stay home and provide home care to sibling groups.