Baltimore Brew
Baltimore Brew provides in-depth reporting on public policy, government accountability and behind the scenes political coverage. Founded in 2009, the online publication has 60-70,000 unique readers each month. The Brew holds a critical space in independent local media. This grant provided funds in support of staffing and related expenses.
Transit Choices
Transit Choices is a coalition of business organizations, universities, cultural institutions, community groups, planners, developers and entrepreneurs concerned with creating an efficient and effective public transit system in Baltimore. Transit Choices engages the coalition to develop priorities for investment and to advocate for improvements that increase options for work and school commutes for the 35 percent of Baltimore residents without cars and address transit mobility as a competitiveness issue for the city. This grant provides operating support.
Paul’s Place, Inc.
For more than 35 years, Paul’s Place has been providing services to meet the basic needs of residents in Pigtown and other Southwest Baltimore neighborhoods, including nutritious hot meals, comprehensive emergency assistance, adult literacy, health services and youth after-school and summer programs. In response to an urgent need for job training, employment and economic development, Paul’s Place is developing a culinary arts training program for 60 young adults annually that includes a full-service restaurant and catering operation. This grant supports the construction of the training facility that will also build on recent private investment along Pigtown’s main street.
Mid-Atlantic Region MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center – Baltimore
The Mid-Atlantic Region MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center – Baltimore is an entrepreneurially focused organization committed to wealth creation in the minority business community. Its goal is to assist its clients as they secure financial capital; identify contracting opportunities; provide strategic advice and counsel to address immediate and long-term business needs; provide group and one-on-one training and education, and create and retain jobs. This grant provided support to a local small business which will increase production efficiencies and expand its access to market opportunities.
Le Mondo
Le Mondo is an artist-owned-and-driven project positioning Baltimore as a center for theatre and the live arts, nationally and internationally. Comprised of three buildings on Baltimore’s historic Howard Street corridor, the project will champion a diverse community of arts and community organizations, individual artists, curators, and arts-lovers in the city. This grant provided building stabilization support for Phase Two of the mixed-used redevelopment project on the 400 block of North Howard Street in the Bromo Arts District.