Past Grants

Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training, Inc.

Toward renovation costs and the purchase of updated equipment and new furnishings for a facility in support of service to homeless veterans. The therapeutic residential setting offers shelter and an array of services to enable homeless veterans to rejoin their communities. Its employment program offers job development, placement, workshops, resume preparation, and training in interviewing skills.

Moveable Feast, Inc.

For continued support of the Culinary Arts and Life Skills Training Program for unemployed and underemployed Baltimore City residents. The program enrolls 32 students each year into a 12-week program, teaching the basics of commercial kitchen operations and menu planning. Graduates are placed in entry-level food service positions paying a living wage with benefits.

A New Faith Community

Toward renovation costs for expansion of the Clay Pots Tutoring Center, an adult literacy and GED program for residents of West Baltimore. The community wellness center/coffee house serves as a safe, inviting center for continuing education classes preparing candidates for GEDs and English as a Second Language, as well as for employment in visual arts and music.

Rose Street Community Center

For continued support of drug treatment and job-training programs. Rose Street serves more than 90 people a week, and provides transitional housing for an average of 45 to 50 men and women. The center offers mental health services, gang mediation, GED classes, tutoring, art classes, and shelter for homeless youth.

Alternative Directions, Inc.

Toward funding of child-support modification workshops in Maryland Correctional Institutions. The purpose of the program is to increase the number of child-support modifications filed by the incarcerated in an effort to reduce the amount of arrearages to which persons are entitled under Maryland law. The staff continues to work with the Maryland Child Support Enforcement Administration and courts to simplify the support medication forms, develop new outreach materials and methods, and ensure that motions filed are effective at bringing about payment modifications.