Past Grants

Art with a Heart, Inc.

For support and expansion of the 2009 Summer Job Program, a visual arts program for 30 at-risk youth in the Rose Street community. As part of the six-week summer work experience, the students created art pieces, including decoupage furniture and mosaics for sale at Artscape.

Alternative Directions, Inc.

Toward child support modification workshops in the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center; the Maryland Transition Center in Baltimore; and the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup. The objectives of the workshops are to assist 515 incarcerated individuals in preparing requests to have their child support orders modified and following-up with the child support system to ensure that the support orders have been modified.

Progressive Maryland Education Fund

For support of a study on Maryland’s living-wage law. The study will analyze the number of workers who have benefited from the law, the amount of additional income they have received, the cost to the state to implement the law, and the cost to the state if exemptions were to be eliminated.

Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore, Inc.

For support of home rehabilitation services created to enable elderly and low-income residents to remain in their homes.

Maryland PIRG Foundation

Toward continued support of the Smart Energy Solutions Program, a statewide campaign designed to promote energy policies on energy efficiency and conservation.