The WorkFirst Foundation
$400,000 / 2012 / Workforce Development
For continued support of the Baltimore Ex-Offender Re-entry Employment Program for America Works of Maryland participants. The program offers two-week training sessions, enrolling ex-offenders and those recently released from prison, and then placing them into employment.
TurnAround, Inc.
$285,000 / 2012 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
Continued support toward operating expenses that will provide outreach, support services, emergency shelter, and transitional housing for 125 Baltimore City women who are victims of sex trafficking. Efforts will be made to create statewide victim identification and response protocols.
United Ministries, Inc.
$85,000 / 2012 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
Two-year funding for continued support of Earl’s Place Transitional Housing Project, which serves 17 homeless men recovering from addiction each year. The grant covers the salary of a director of development.
United Way of Central Maryland
$183,750 / 2012 / Health and Human Services
To provide rent subsidies for 75 homeless men and women in the transitional employment program of The Journey Home (Baltimore City’s 10-year plan to end homelessness).
United Way of Central Maryland
$30,000 / 2012 / Health and Human Services
Toward support of the costs of a housing case manager to serve homeless clients participating in the Journey Home transitional employment program.