Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County
$5,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the purchase of mattresses, linens and replacement beds for a shelter serving domestic violence victims.
Man Alive Research, Inc.
$75,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Challenge grant toward construction costs of completing a facility for expansion of outpatient methadone maintenance treatment services for heroin-addicted individuals.
Sylvan Beach Foundation, Inc.
$111,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the expansion of the Sylvan Beach Cafe and Ice Cream Company, set up as an entrepreneurial endeavor to provide employment for ex-offenders. Modeled after the Delancy Street Foundation in San Francisco that provides career and ownership opportunities, the Sylvan Beach Foundation operates on the principles of project-based learning, high expectations, earned responsibility and privileges, peer leadership and community living.
American Institute for Social Justice/ACORN
$95,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For a comprehensive lead poisoning prevention program in the Park Heights area. The initiative allows for an increase in the number of children that can be tested, and a strengthening of abatement and legal enforcement efforts.
Food Link
$5,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Toward handling fees for gleaned produce distributed to more than 100 emergency feeding programs in Anne Arundel County.