Past Grants

Fund for Educational Excellence

For continued support of Math Works, designed to develop a professional training model for third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade math teachers in Baltimore City. The training will utilize workshops, electronic textbooks, and state-of-the-art practices.

Fund for Educational Excellence

For the development of a strategy to recruit and train Baltimore City public secondary school math teachers for the 2006-2007 school year.

Fusion Partnerships, Inc.

For an evaluation of Power Inside, an outreach program serving 200 women affected by incarceration, street life, and abuse. The program offers direct client services, leadership development, and public education to help build self-sufficiency, heal from violence, and avoid criminal justice system contact.

Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake, Inc.

For support of the Shapiro Training and Employment Program’s (STEP) Ticket To Work Project, a program for disadvantaged persons with psychiatric disabilities. Now merged with Goodwill Industries, the goal of the project is to enroll 300 Social Security Administration clients into the program and place at least 80 graduates in jobs.

Goucher College

To fund costs of leasing office space in support of after-school programs for Baltimore City public schools at the Goucher Collective in the Old Goucher Historic District. The goal is to revitalize the South Charles Village neighborhood by partnering nonprofit service organizations with at-risk youth and Goucher students.