Past Grants

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland

For continued support of the Baltimore City Education Reform Project. The purpose of the project is to represent the interests of disadvantaged students, particularly in Baltimore City, by ensuring increased operating and capital funding, and continued management reform. ACLU will monitor the Baltimore City Public School Systems’ budget allocations to assess whether expenditures are translating into academic improvements.

Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers

For 2005 membership dues.

Washington Village/ Pigtown Neighborhood Planning Council, Inc.

For support of Managed Work Services-Baltimore, a transitional work experience to prepare job seekers for permanent employment. Managed Work Services contracts with businesses to staff high turnover, entry-level positions. Teams of up to ten Managed Work Services employees work alongside a job coach to gain valuable work experience in these temporary, transitional jobs, and are then placed into permanent jobs.

Vehicles for Change, Inc.

Seventh-year funding of a car ownership program designed to make reliable, reconditioned, low-cost cars available to low-income Baltimore City residents.

St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, Inc.

For continued support of the Learn to Earn Program, a job training readiness program, at the St. Ambrose Outreach Center. The program helps participants improve language arts, math and computer skills; prepare for and obtain GEDs; and seek, secure, and retain jobs. St. Ambrose Outreach Center expects to enroll 400 participants and place 200 people into employment.