Past Grants

Baltimore’s Promise, Fiscally Sponsored by Fund for Educational Excellence

In support of the COVID-19 Response Funding Collaborative of Greater Baltimore, individual grants were awarded to the following organizations:

• 4MYCITY

• Amazing Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

• Asylee Women’s Enterprise

• Baltimore Job Hunter’s Support Group, Fiscally Sponsored by Corner Community Center

• The Broken Wall Community Church

• Black Yield Institute, Fiscally Sponsored by Fusion Partnerships, Inc.

• Catherine’s Family and Youth Services, Inc.

• Church of the Guardian Angel

• City of Refuge Baltimore, Inc.

• CollegeBound Foundation

• Civic Works, Inc.  

• Dent Education

• Digital Equity Initiative for Baltimore, Fiscally Sponsored by Digital Harbor Foundation

• Elev8 Baltimore, Fiscally Sponsored by Fund for Educational Excellence

• Farm Alliance of Baltimore

• Fishes and Loaves Pantry

• Humanim

• Immigration Outreach Center

• Impact Hub, Fiscally Sponsored by Maryland Philanthropy Network

• Intercultural Counseling Connections, Fiscally Sponsored by Fusion Partnerships, Inc.

• Italian Cultural Center

• Little Flowers

• Patterson Park Public Charter School

• Power52

• Southeast Community Development Corporation

• Turnaround, Inc.

• UEmpower of Maryland

• Women’s Housing Coalition

Open Works

Open Works is an engine for grassroots economic development especially in the manufacturing sector and will actively support memberships, studio rentals, and revenue from classes and other programming once conditions are safe enough to resume those revenue generating activities. While Open Works has moved forward with a ramp up of PPE production, and will receive payment via local hospitals for those items, a number of ongoing expenses that were typically funded with membership fees or other revenue are not currently supported with that revenue. This grant provided general operating support for the organization.

Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

The Baltimore Healthcare Innovator Retention Program fellowship stipends enable talented Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering students to continue working on promising healthcare innovations after they complete their graduate studies. These teams of Fellows operative as virtual startups creating commercially viable products, seeking follow-on funding, and creating new companies. The program maximizes the translation of discovery and invention from the University biomedical program into income-generating companies which have the potential to generate local employment.

Civic Works, Inc.

Civic Works’ Retrofit Baltimore program offers weatherization, home energy efficiency, and health and safety improvements to low- and moderate-income households. Utilizing competitive Maryland Energy Administration funding, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development grants and BGE utility rebates, the program expects to complete 375 energy audits, energy efficient weatherization improvements in 70 homes, bedbug remediations in 44 homes and screen all households for property tax credits, water bill discounts, and federal nutrition benefits. The grant covers expenses for staff to promote the program, screen applicants for benefits, establish scopes of work, manage contract implementation, and ensure quality control.

Baltimore Office of Sustainability, Fiscally Sponsored by Civic Works, Inc.

The Baltimore Food Policy Initiative within the Baltimore Office of Sustainability will provide $65,000 in mini-grants to grassroots community organizations who are working hard and quickly to fill gaps in Baltimore’s larger emergency food-distribution system as the COVID-19 crisis escalates. Funds will be used for food, protective equipment for volunteers and nonprofit employees, transportation and fuel costs to supply food to those who are homebound, elderly, immuno-compromised, and living in poverty, most of whom are unable to access distribution centers, have lost their local pantry program due to COVID closure, or may have a gap without food while, for example, waiting for their Meals on Wheels registration to be processed or for SNAP benefits to be approved.