Past Grants

Baltimore Rowing Club

Toward expansion of Reach High Baltimore, an initiative designed to serve 40 at-risk Baltimore City middle school students through rowing and academic mentoring. The four-season program will prepare participants to row on high school teams.

Baltimore HealthCare Access, Inc.

For support of a hotline and media campaign to promote expansion of Medicaid funding of family planning services and other health-care needs. The goal of the campaign is to enroll 2,000 to 3,000 eligible women in insurance benefits.

Baltimore City Health Department

Toward support of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative. The objectives of the initiative are to create a multi-agency collaboration aimed at improving reproductive health services, to strengthen sex education in City Schools, to promote effective contraceptive methods, and to improve family planning services for teen mothers. The long-term goal of the initiative is to reduce teen births in Baltimore City by 15 percent by 2015.

Baltimore City Health Department

For support of the Baltimore Vision Screening Initiative in Baltimore City public schools. The initiative will revamp the current vision-screening program to screen 95 percent of students in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and first grade, and provide follow-up care with medical providers for those who fail the screening. The Bureau of School Health will also recruit and train qualified volunteers to conduct screenings in an effort to reach 95 percent of eighth-grade students.

Baltimore Child First Authority, Inc.

For support of the 2011 Child First Rokkball Summer Program, a sports initiative that combines baseball and rock-and-roll music, for at-risk Baltimore City children and youth.