TuTTie’s Place
$46,000 / 2008 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
For the purchase of furniture and equipment for a new 16-bed residential group home for Baltimore City foster-care children, ages 14-21. TuTTie’s Place is committed to providing care for hard-to-serve foster children who have experienced multiple failed placements.
U.S. Green Building Council Baltimore Regional Chapter, Inc./ Baltimore Bioneers Conference
$5,000 / 2008 / Community Development
Toward expenses related to the 2008 Baltimore Bioneers Conference, a three-day event addressing national and local topics on economic and environmental sustainability and social justice. Based on the California model, Baltimore’s effort is expected to stimulate, inspire, and move participants to a new level of action based on innovative solutions. Presentations will be offered on nutritional and sustainable food sources, urban farming, farm-to-school links, effects of climate change, energy efficiency, and recycling.
University of Baltimore
$150,000 / 2008 / Community Development
To provide three honoraria for world-renown architects to participate in a design competition for a new University of Baltimore Law School on the corner of Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue.
University of Baltimore/ Center for Community Technology Services
$40,000 / 2008 / Education
For the purchase of computers, training, and support of the LATCH (Let’s All Take Computers Home) technology program in five Baltimore City public schools: Baltimore Freedom Academy, Collington Square, Southwest Baltimore Charter, City Springs, and General Wolfe. Each school will identify 25 families to receive a computer, printer, software, Internet access, and computer maintenance service. Parents attend workshops to learn basic skills and how to help students with computer-based homework.
University of Maryland Baltimore County
$18,151 / 2008 / Education
In continuing support of an evaluation of the Core Knowledge Preschool Program at St. Vincent de Paul Southeast Head Start centers. The evaluation measures the effectiveness of the Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence in the areas of language development and early literacy, math reasoning and number sense, social skills, visual arts, music, and readiness to learn. The sample of Southeast Head Start Center children, 70 percent of whom are Spanish speaking, will be compared with a control group, half of whom are Hispanic. Once the children enter kindergarten, follow-up studies will track the academic progress of the two groups.