Past Grants

Patterson Park Community Development Corporation

For continued support of an initiative to clean streets and alleys in the Patterson Park community. This effort is intended to help eliminate trash and create a visually appealing, comfortable, and secure community in a 22-block area.

Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

For continued support and expansion of the Music Teacher Mentoring Program for 87 new and recently hired elementary and middle school teachers for the 2006-2007 school year. The program upgrades teachers’ classroom techniques and strategies by providing demonstrations, workshops, video-taping, and one-on-one coaching in the classroom. The goal is to implement enhanced music curricula that meet state and national content standards, and to increase the teacher retention rate.

People’s Homesteading Group

For support of Anchors of Hope, Phase IV, for development costs to create four affordable houses and four transitional apartments for sale and rent to low-income families in the Barclay-Midway neighborhood. The rehabilitation of these residential properties will help reduce the negative impact of existing vacancies in the community.

Preservation Maryland.

For expenses related to the Diamond Jubilee annual meeting. The agenda of the meeting included ways and means to reinforce the importance of improving communities through preservation and revitalization.

Public Justice Center, Inc.

For continued support of the Tenant Advocacy Project, established to help reduce evictions and to prevent tenant property from being placed in the street following an eviction. The center will build support for reform of city and state eviction procedures, provide legal representation to tenants facing eviction, and coordinate an educational media campaign.