Baltimore Academies/National Academy Foundation School
$27,000 / 2004 / Education
In support of the design and installation of a new state-of-the-art National Academy Foundation kitchen to be used for the culinary portion of the Academy of Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality at its new location on the Digital Harbor Campus. This program provides an intensive four-year school-to-work curriculum that enables high school students to participate in internships.
Archdiocese of Baltimore
$30,000 / 2004 / Education
For continued support of tuition at area parochial schools for children of buyers of Patterson Park Community Development Corporation homes.
Maryland Environmental Service
$25,000 / 2004 / Environment
For the production, installation, and monitoring of Reef Balls (artificial reefs) as part of the Department of Natural Resources’ Artificial Reef Project. The program will help restore degraded or damaged natural reefs that are home to oysters and fish in the Chesapeake Bay.
Herring Run Watershed Association
$25,000 / 2004 / Environment
Toward staffing costs to increase local efforts to restore the Herring Run Watershed. The association has played a major role in environmental monitoring of illegal industrial dumps and sewage pipe leakages, and has advocated for stream cleanups, tree plantings, installations of rain gardens, and other bio-retention modifications in homes and schoolyards.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
$5,000 / 2004 / Environment
In support of the 2005 Environmental Legislative Summit.