Greater Baltimore Tennis Patrons Association, Inc.
$30,000 / 2010 / Health and Human Services
Toward support of after-school and summer tennis programs serving the Greater Homewood Tennis Aces, Park Heights Tennis Aces, and Frankford Tennis Aces. More than 400 at-risk Baltimore City youth ages six to 16 participate and receive tennis instruction, support for study habits, and healthy meals.
Friends of Patterson Park, Inc.
$5,000 / 2010 / Health and Human Services
For the purchase of a basketball scoreboard and ceiling mounting for a backboard in the Virginia S. Baker Recreational Center. The center houses two teen Department of Recreation leagues, a young women’s team, another for students from Hampstead Hill Academy, and neighborhood pick-up games. By improving the facility, the center offers a safe and healthy environment for out-of-school activities.
The Franciscan Center
$230,000 / 2010 / Health and Human Services
Two grants for continued support of the Emergency Services and Energy Assistance Programs. The center offers relief services that include utility assistance, eviction prevention grants, prescription and dental co-pays, transportation bus tokens, identification documents, referrals to job-training programs, and enrollment in entitlement programs.
Food Research & Action Center
$50,000 / 2010 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of Maryland Hunger Solutions, an anti-hunger advocacy program for low-income residents of Baltimore City to access federally funded nutrition programs, including food stamps and the WIC program (Women, Infants, and Children). Focus is on expanding the free classroom breakfast program, advocating for improved administrative and legislative policies to eliminate access barriers, and working to assure Maryland’s participation in the newly approved federal after-school meal program, as well as the weekend and holiday supper program for children and adults.
Civic Works
$5,000 / 2010 / Health and Human Services
For the design and implementation of a grading and irrigation plan for the Real Food Farm site, which will utilize hoop houses for organic farming at Lake Clifton Park. The farm, with its hoop houses, orchard and tree nursery, serves as an educational setting for Lake Clifton High School students, a community learning center, and a source of produce for farm stands in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello and Belair-Edison neighborhoods.