Charles Village Community Foundation, Inc.
$77,905 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For the purchase, installation and maintenance of 12 security video cameras to be placed in the Waverly business district. The project is intended to reduce the number of armed robberies and other crimes as well as to increase the perception of safety for local merchants and their customers.
Kennedy Krieger Institute
$125,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For general support of programs serving children with neurological disabilities.
Rose Street Community Center
$309,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Three grants for continued support of drug treatment and job training program for FY 2001. The Center supports job training, educational opportunities and drug treatment program for community residents interested in rehabilitation. The Center also provides weekly stipends to program participants to assist with living expenses while enrolled in the self-help program.
Baltimore City Health Department
$175,667 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of ChildSight, a vision screening program for Baltimore City public middle-school students for the 2001-2002 school year. The program, expanding to 40 schools, enables over 12,000 students to be screened for vision correction needs. Free on-site refractive error eye examinations and eyeglasses are available through third-party payments.
Courage To Change
$23,616 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
To provide the first month’s rent and a package of personal effects to 48 homeless recovering men and women. The residents will be given housing for one year in a transitional housing program while they stabilize their lives, find jobs and remain drug-free.