St. Ambrose Family Outreach Center
$5,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For purchase of food for the institution’s soup kitchen and emergency food pantry for people in need in lower Park Heights.
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.
The Center for Fathers, Families and Workforce Development
$350,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Fourth-year funding of the STRIVE Baltimore Program, a comprehensive job training and placement service for unemployed and underemployed men and women. The intense three-week program prepares participants for the workforce through a highly-structured workshop that focuses on attitude modification and the development of job readiness skills. Core services also include job placement with long-term follow-up, one-to-one and group counseling, and case management.
The Community Mediation Center
$5,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
In support of the acquisition of the Safe & Smart Center building housing the Community Mediation Program. The goal of the program is to reduce interpersonal and community violence by using nonviolent conflict resolutions strategies and making the mediation process more accessible to local residents.
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.