Past Grants

Baltimore Office of Sustainability

Toward support of the Baltimore Energy Challenge. Through education outreach, this challenge encourages residents, institutions, and businesses to reduce energy usage by 15 percent by the year 2015.

Baltimore Orchard Project

To fund a program designed to increase the number of fruit trees in Baltimore, in an effort to provide an additional source of fresh fruit for city residents and contribute to the health of the environment. The program will identify an integrated mapping and data system to create an inventory of trees, and then it will coordinate with 10 gleaning parties (groups to harvest the fruit), pilot an initial food distribution plan, and create a network of local orchards and food forests.

Baltimore Outreach Services, Inc.

Continued funding for support of internships for eight homeless women participating in the Culinary Arts Job Training Program. These internships allow students to hone their skills and gain on-the-job work experience, while employers benefit from being provided with qualified candidates.

Baltimore Public Markets Corporation

Toward support of the Get Fresh Public Markets initiative, which encourages food vendors to change carryout menus to include healthy, affordable foods.

Baltimore Reads, Inc.

For continued support of operating costs of the Baltimore Reads Book Bank and Book Exchange. AmeriCorps members will be hired to expand the supply of books that the exchange intends to make available, for free, to more than 60,000 students in schools, and 90,000 students in homes.