St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, Inc.
$125,000 / 2006 / Health and Human Services
Challenge grant for capital renovations and expansion of the Beans & Bread Outreach Center. The proposed renovations will enable Beans & Bread to continue providing needed services, including health care, client advocacy, assistance in accessing public benefits, housing, and legal services.
St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, Inc.
$80,000 / 2006 / Workforce Development
For continued support of the Learn to Earn Program, a job- training readiness program at the St. Ambrose Outreach Center. The program, integrating adult educational services, job-training, and placement services, plans to place 200 residents annually into employment.
Stadium School Youth Dreamers, Inc.
$25,000 / 2006 / Education
Toward renovation costs of 1430 Carswell Street to be used as a youth-run, after-school youth center in the Waverly/Coldstream-Homestead- Montebello communities. The center will provide a safe place for children to take enrichment classes after school, to be tutored, and build positive relationships with adults in the neighborhood.
Sylvan Beach Foundation, Inc.
$50,000 / 2006 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
For staffing costs of a Program Director and a Director of Operations and Workforce Development. Sylvan Beach Foundation is a residential job training program to encourage troubled youth to become skilled workers and potential entrepreneurs.
Teach For America-Baltimore
$100,000 / 2006 / Education
For continuation of an initiative to recruit, train, and support 85 to 100 Teach For America corps members teaching in Baltimore City public schools. These recent college graduates make a two-year commitment and are offered the opportunity to earn a Master of Arts in teaching at the Johns Hopkins University.