Art with a Heart
$30,000 / 2011 / Workforce Development
For support and expansion of the 2011 Summer Job Program, a visual arts program for 50 at-risk youth from the Rose Street Community Center, Paul’s Place, and the Raynor Brown Elementary/ Middle School. Students receive a stipend of $10 a day to create more than 200 marketable pieces of art during the four-week program, and work in the HeARTSware store, for a minimum of four hours, selling their artwork as a job-readiness experience.
Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance
$10,000 / 2011 / Education
For continued support and expansion of programs to integrate the arts into the curriculum of Maryland’s public schools.
Arts Every Day
$25,000 / 2011 / Education
To increase the number of Baltimore City Public Schools’ students and teachers participating in the Arts Every Day Schools Program. The objective is to incorporate arts into the lives of students through a curriculum that meets Maryland content standards. The program offers professional training to classroom teachers and artists-in-residence, and maintains an updated website promoting opportunities to collaborate with local cultural institutions, and the use of arts integration tools and strategies.
Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
$50,000 / 2011 / Workforce Development
For continued support of the Baltimore Workforce Funders Collaborative. The focus of the grant is to analyze wage gains of participants in three sector-based job-training programs, as well as training programs supported through the Baltimore Integration Partnership Training Fund. The collaborative will use the wage record analysis to determine which program proves to be most effective in moving participants to higher wages.
Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
$15,000 / 2011 / Other
For 2012 membership dues.