Past Grants

Franciscan Center

Toward support of the Emergency Services Energy Assistance Program. Services include utility and eviction prevention grants, emergency food, transportation vouchers, prescription co-pay assistance, financial counseling, and case management.

Fund for Educational Excellence

For the development of the Urban Teacher Center (UTC), the mission of which is to prepare teachers for the country’s neediest urban schools. The center recruits candidates, equips them with state-of-the-art training, and links certification to the performance of their students. UTC fellows must make a four-year commitment: one year of residency, followed by three years as a full-time teacher in a high-needs urban school.

Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation

Toward staffing and administrative costs of CARES, a food pantry and emergency utility assistance, eviction prevention, and prescription drug assistance program serving more than 4,400 low-income Baltimore City residents.

Harbor City Services, Inc.

Toward general operating costs of a document management, moving/storage, and warehouse business providing sheltered employment to Baltimore City residents with psychiatric disabilities.

Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc.

For general support of a partnership of banks, foundations, government agencies, and community organizations committed to strengthening 15 underserved neighborhoods targeted for revitalization. Healthy Neighborhoods provides grants for marketing, community organizing, and block projects in an ongoing effort to preserve and improve the real estate values in selected neighborhoods.