Past Grants

Nazareth Lutheran Church

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

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 City Public School System/Universal Classroom Breakfast Program

Two grants to provide gap funding for non-reimbursable breakfasts for the Universal Breakfast Program in classrooms in seven schools during the 2001-2002 school year. The program is part of an ongoing study to determine the long-term effects of students’ participation in breakfast in the classroom (as opposed to the cafeteria) on attendance, tardiness, incidence of disciplinary action, academic achievement and the Maryland State Performance and Assessment Program.

Enoch Pratt Free Library

For an evaluation of the Technology Center to determine the effectiveness of current programming designed to help clients seek better paying jobs and increased personal growth. The study also addresses staffing and physical plant needs.

Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations

Toward the development of a policy paper on child support enforcement reform.