People’s Community Health Center
$20,000 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
For staffing, renovations, and equipment needs of facilities providing medical services to disadvantaged persons in Baltimore City.
Alternative Directions, Inc.
$30,000 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
For salary, benefits, and related expenses of a staff person to assist 100 incarcerated fathers per month in filing for modifications of child support payments while serving time in Baltimore City jails and state prisons.
The Center for Fathers, Families and Workforce Development
$18,600 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
For support of a conference, “Baltimore Summit: The Role of Fathers/Men in the Lives of Children, Family, Community and the Workforce.”
Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake, Inc.
$10,000 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
Planning grant for the creation of the Learn and Earn computer recycling and literacy program, designed for use by low-income residents of Baltimore City. The funds allow for the refurbishing of computers, and the use> of computers to network computer literacy training. Goodwill is adapting the Learn and Earn model as a continuing program for workforce development.
Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.
$21,500 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
For staffing costs of two AmeriCorps members for the Rent Court Division of the Baltimore City District Court. The members will provide basic information and referral, counseling and advice, community education, and in-court representation for clients facing eviction or homelessness.