Job Opportunities Task Force
$125,000 / 2011 / Workforce Development
Toward continued support of the JumpStart Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program for 70 Baltimore City residents. The 13-week program has been designed to provide low-income city residents with training in handling tools, construction math, and safety, as well as an introduction to the carpentry, electrical, and plumbing trades. Approximately 70 percent of program graduates are placed into employment, with 25 percent enrolled in apprenticeships.
Job Opportunities Task Force
$75,000 / 2011 / Workforce Development
For continued support of the Baltimore CASH Campaign, an initiative designed to increase the use of the Earned Income Tax Credit. The campaign plans to serve 9,000 residents while operating 15 to 17 free tax preparation sites. Plans call for strengthening and expanding its financial education program to help clients save more of the money they earn; enrolling tax filers into public benefits programs through EarnBenefits; and building assets of low-wage tax payers through savings accounts and the purchase of savings bonds.
Jobs, Housing & Recovery, Inc. (JHR)
$5,000 / 2011 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
For emergency funding to cover the cost of data recovery from a computer server damaged in a fire. One of the largest providers for Baltimore City, JHR manages the City’s Code Blue Shelter including 350 emergency beds and 100 transitional beds for homeless men.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
$78,366 / 2011 / Health and Human Services
Three grants for staffing, supplies, and related expenses of the Rat Sterilant Evaluation. The project will evaluate a unique chemical compound that is designed to sterilize adult male Norway rats in an effort to control feral rats in urban areas such as Baltimore.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
$5,420 / 2011 / Health and Human Services
Two grants in support of a conference, “Exploring the Impact of Vitamins & Micronutrients on Children’s Behavior.”