Past Grants

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

Toward support of the alley gating and greening initiative in Baltimore City. As a strategy to reduce crime and excess dumping and to increase property values, the Community Greens concept provides an opportunity for neighborhoods to reclaim their alleyways, broaden the possibilities for involvement in communal life, and improve their communities.

Arnold Preservation Council, Inc.

For speakers’ travel fees and related expenses of a one-day conference on growth management in Anne Arundel County.

Alliance for Community Trees

For support of a national conference for urban forestry practitioners and community organizers.

Action In Maturity, Inc.

Toward the purchase of a mini-bus to provide affordable transportation for low-income senior citizens in Baltimore City. By expanding transportation opportunities, the program seeks to increase mobility of elderly residents, enabling them to maintain their health and independence, and to create desirable neighborhoods and livable communities.

Women’s Housing Coalition

Two-year funding to continue support of services to homeless women with mental illness and drug addiction. By sustaining a contractual counselor and psychiatrist, the Coalition expects to reduce the rate of program incompletion by 50 percent and to increase the medication compliance rate among participants.