Past Grants

Art with a Heart

For support and expansion of the 2010 Summer Job Program, a visual arts program for 30 at-risk youth in the Rose Street community. As part of the six-week summer work experience, students will create 60 marketable art pieces, including decoupage furniture and mosaics for sale at Artscape.

Vehicles for Change, Inc.

For continuation and expansion of an initiative to provide 35 donated, repaired, and state-inspected cars to low-income persons in Baltimore City. To be eligible to purchase a car, a potential owner must reside in Baltimore City, qualify as being low income, have a job or job offer, and need a car for employment purposes.

Baltimore Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Inc. (BACH)

For continued support of pre-allied health bridge programming, which provides entry-level health-care workers with the requisite basic skills for post-secondary training; career coaching, which improves the job retention and advancement of frontline health-care workers; and the BACH Fellows program, which provides Baltimore City public school students with experience working in hospitals over the summer.

Women’s Housing Coalition

For contractual services and related expenses to provide workforce development assistance to women in permanent supportive housing programs. The purpose of the initiative is to improve the employment outcomes of the residents by having a part-time job coach who identifies educational and training programs that best suit the residents’ employment and career goals. This will provide all residents the opportunity to participate in better-matched programs that meet their needs.

Baltimore Water Alliance

Toward the development and implementation of a green jobs work placement program in horticulture, landscaping, and urban agriculture. The program will target a team of three high school graduates between the ages of 18 and 24 from under-represented neighborhoods to be hired as AmeriCorps volunteers over a 10-month period. With the help of the team, the Alliance plans to plant more than 300 trees, remove three acres of invasive plants, disconnect 100 residential downspouts, install 50 rain barrels, and assist Real Foods Farm in growing winter vegetables and maintaining community gardens. On completion of the training period, AmeriCorps volunteers will transition to respective career paths.