Open Door Community Development Corporation (Open Door Baltimore)
$5,000 / 2012 / Community Development
For the purchase and installation of security cameras for a workforce development program in the Oliver community. Open Door Baltimore offers instruction in life skills and construction training in partnership with the National Center for Construction Research and Education and Baltimore City Public Schools’ Office of Learning to Work.
A New Faith Community
$25,300 / 2012 / Community Development
Toward costs related to the installation of a peace garden at the Clay Pots Tutoring Center, an adult literacy and GED program in West Baltimore. By removing a building in disrepair and replacing it with an outdoor garden, the center will offer green space and an outdoor meeting place.
MarylandReporter.com
$35,000 / 2012 / Community Development
Toward support of an investigation and a series of articles on Maryland’s pension system. It is expected that the series of articles will engage policymakers and other government officials in discussions of the problems that have led to Maryland’s pension crisis.
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development
$5,000 / 2012 / Community Development
Toward three summer internships in the Basic Sciences and Clinical Sciences divisions to serve Baltimore City minority students, and to provide lab, safety, and educational materials.
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development
$150,000 / 2012 / Community Development
Toward recruitment and staffing costs of 30 new behavioral biologists, geneticists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and neuroscientists to be employed by the Lieber Institute at the Johns Hopkins Science and Technology Park.