Feeding the People, Inc.
$5,000 / 2011 / Health and Human Services
For support of a program to reach underserved, disadvantaged, and at-risk diabetics by providing home-delivered meals, nutrition counseling, and in-home self-management education.
Chesapeake Regional Information System for Our Patients
$5,000 / 2011 / Health and Human Services
Toward support of “Information for Health: The Maryland Prize,” a contest to generate ideas for using health information to improve health status.
Catholic Charities
$60,000 / 2011 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of eviction prevention and utility assistance for more than 500 low-income households at risk of becoming homeless or losing utility services. The program is administered by the Samaritan Center.
Catholic Charities
$50,890 / 2011 / Health and Human Services
Two grants for continued support of the Traveler’s Aid Voucher Program at the Samaritan Center. The purpose of the program is to assist homeless persons who want to move out of Baltimore City to reunite with family, find employment, and/or access treatment for substance abuse, by providing one-way travel vouchers. Persons using the program must have a contact in the destination city willing to assume responsibility for finding new accommodations for recipients of the travel vouchers.
Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Maryland Mentoring Partnership
$15,000 / 2011 / Health and Human Services
For support of “B’Mentors: The Baltimore City Initiative” for 235 at-risk youth in six troubled neighborhoods. By matching youth with mentors, it is expected that there will be improvements in confidence, competence, academic performance, and relationships with adults and peers.