Past Grants

Harbor City Services, Inc.

Toward continued support of operating costs of a document management, moving/storage, and warehouse business, providing full-time and part-time employment to 30 Baltimore City residents with psychiatric disabilities. The business secures contracts with medical centers, financial and real estate firms, and law firms and social service programs, and is able to provide above minimum-wage jobs.

GROUP Ministries, Inc.

For the purchase of one house in the Rosemont community, and to provide on-the-job training in home renovations for 10 ex-offenders. The men will be placed in a pre-apprenticeship program with outside contractors.

Civic Works

Toward the creation of the Energy Retrofit Contractor Development pilot project. The project will identify and select a contractor from the Westport community to provide six months of classroom and on-the-job training teaching installation, air sealing, and cool roofing as steps to establish an energy-efficiency retrofit business.

Center for Urban Families

For continued support of STRIVE Baltimore, a job-training and placement service for men and women. The STRIVE model, an intensive three-week workshop, focuses on job readiness, job placement, post-placement support, one-on-one and group counseling, parenting skills, and case management.

CASA de Maryland, Inc.

For continued support of the Baltimore Worker Employment Center for day laborers and low-income workers. The program provides employment placement services, financial literacy classes, free tax preparation, referrals to legal and social services, English as a Second Language classes, identification cards, and assistance with naturalization applications.