A New Faith Community
$8,000 / 2010 / Workforce Development
Toward renovation costs for expansion of the Clay Pots Tutoring Center, an adult literacy and GED program for residents of West Baltimore. The community wellness center/coffee house serves as a safe, inviting center for continuing education classes preparing candidates for GEDs and English as a Second Language, as well as for employment in visual arts and music.
A Step Forward, Inc.
$5,000 / 2010 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
Toward assistance with the payment of utility bills and a matching requirement for a Volunteer Maryland Coordinator in support of a transitional housing facility serving homeless men and women who suffer from substance addiction, along with challenging issues such as financial deprivation, mental health, past incarceration, and unemployment.
ACLU Foundation of Maryland, Inc.
$50,000 / 2010 / Education
For continued support of the Baltimore City Education Reform Project, designed to ensure that schools serving disadvantaged students receive equal funding and resources. This strategy includes education, community organizing, advocacy efforts, and lawsuits.
Adopt A Block, Inc. ﾠ
$5,000 / 2010 / Community Development
Toward renovation costs of a house in East Baltimore as part of the week-long Compassion Commission Project. This summer program brings together more than 200 youth from the East Coast to participate in a week of volunteering committed to rebuilding an abandoned rowhouse, cleaning up alleys and neighborhood streets, and painting recreation centers and public schools.
Alternative Directions, Inc.
$44,280 / 2010 / Workforce Development
Toward funding of child-support modification workshops in Maryland Correctional Institutions. The purpose of the program is to increase the number of child-support modifications filed by the incarcerated in an effort to reduce the amount of arrearages to which persons are entitled under Maryland law. The staff continues to work with the Maryland Child Support Enforcement Administration and courts to simplify the support medication forms, develop new outreach materials and methods, and ensure that motions filed are effective at bringing about payment modifications.