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.
Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
$7,500 / 2009 / Other
For 2009 membership dues.
Museum of Ceramic Art
$34,000 / 2009 / Arts
For support of the 2009-2010 in-school and after-school ceramic art programs in 46 Baltimore City public middle schools. Aligned with the Maryland State Content Standards and integrated with core subjects, the program reinforces students’ reading, writing, and creative skills. The nine-month program provides each teacher with wheels, kilns, supplies, a stipend, coaching, professional training workshops, and monthly networking. While student works of art are temporarily exhibited in public venues such as the Baltimore Visitor Center at the Inner Harbor, arrangements are also made for participating schools to create ceramic murals for permanent installations in various locations in Baltimore City.
Maryland Historical Society
$7,500 / 2009 / Arts
Toward research, editorial, design, and printing costs of Joseph. L. Sterne’s book, Combat Correspondents: The Baltimore Sun in World War II.
Baltimore Shakespeare Festival
$5,000 / 2009 / Arts
Toward the implementation of the Shakespeare for a New Generation program, designed to provide free access for students to experience the power of live theatre and the work of William Shakespeare. The program includes teacher workshops, in-school teaching artists’ visits, study guides, live performances of The Comedy of Errors, and post-performance discussions in 12 to 14 Baltimore City public schools.