Past Grants

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.

Women’s Housing Coalition

Capital funding toward the acquisition and renovation of Jenkins House, a 22-unit residential mid-rise apartment building housing homeless women and their children, most of whom are referred from emergency shelters. Emphasis is placed on educational support services for children to ensure that all will be performing at or above grade level within one year of entry into the program.