Job Advancement Network
$20,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For the establishment of a grant pool for workforce development organizations to provide effective job retention and career advancement services.
Parks & People Foundation
$123,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
In support of the Boys Middle School Soccer League for the 2001 season. Students from 26 middle schools participating in the league must maintain a 90 percent attendance rate and a C average.
Women Behind the Community, Inc.
$10,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For support of the Dressing Room Project, an initiative providing professional clothing and work-related training to welfare-to-work recipients.
Center for Poverty Solutions
$5,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Toward the establishment and implementation of a Child Hunger Hotline for parents in Baltimore City during the summer months.
Job Opportunities Task Force
$30,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For support of a research analyst to conduct a comparative study of Baltimore’s workforce development system with other cities sharing similar demographic characteristics. Components of the study include a review of the cities’ welfare-to-work system; one-stop centers for adults who are not on welfare; youth programs; local community colleges’ curricula; public schools’ vocational and drop-out prevention programs; literacy programs; and public housing workforce initiatives.