Past Grants

HealthCare Access Maryland

For continued support of the Baltimore Second Chance Jail Project, designed to serve recently released inmates. The program screens at least 200 inmates within 45 to 90 days of release for food stamps and Medicaid eligibility.

Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation

Toward support of the CARES Career Connection, an employment program that offers preliminary job counseling to 200 unemployed men and women in Baltimore City. Working with 35 to 40 unemployed persons at a given time, the career coordinator and Loyola University student volunteers provide counseling, resume preparation, mentoring, and assistance with job placement. The goal is to place a minimum of 70 clients in jobs within 12 months.

Episcopal Community Services of Maryland (ECSM)

Capital funding toward construction of the Collington Square Community Teaching Kitchen. ECSM plans to train participants in the Jericho Re-entry Program in food preparation, and place them into jobs. ECSM will offer classes in food preparation to more than 300 youth and adults living in the Collington Square community.

Community Health Integrated Partnership, Inc.

Toward continued support of the Community HealthCorps workforce development program. The goal of the program is to provide Baltimore City residents with access to primary and preventive health services, and expand utilization of health and social services. This effort is accomplished by hiring up to eight Community HealthCorps members who provide direct services to 6,500 people, and assist them with scheduling appointments, enrolling in benefit programs, and navigating the health-care system.

CivicWorks

For continued support of the Baltimore Center for Green Careers, which has built a multi-tiered green career “pathway out of poverty” by training and placing Baltimore City residents in the brownfield remediation and residential energy retrofit industries. During the five-week entry-level brownfield remediation training, 80 participants receive five industry-recognized certifications, and conduct a hands-on practicum. The three-month entry-level energy retrofit installer training program provides 25 trainees with one month of classroom-based instruction and two months of on-the-job training through Civic Works’ social enterprise, EnergyReady.