Partnership for Learning
$30,000 / 2005 / Education
For support of an education-based juvenile program for first-time offenders experiencing learning difficulties. The initiative, designed to reduce recidivism and increase academic outcomes, provides tutoring and mentoring.
Patrick Allison House
$22,000 / 2005 / Criminal Justice and Addiction
Toward operating costs of a structured therapeutic transitional housing program serving ex-offenders in Baltimore City facing re-entry problems of housing, drug treatment, and employment. The program offers a safe place to live, individual and group counseling, access to health care services, job search assistance, and life-skills training.
Patterson Park Community Development Corporation
$20,000 / 2005 / Community Development
To fund the cleaning of streets and alleys in a 22-block area of the Patterson Park community. This effort is designed to help eliminate trash and create a visually appealing, comfortable, and secure environment.
Paul’s Place, Inc.
$150,000 / 2005 / Health and Human Services
Toward improvements to the first and second floors and elevator, and for the purchase of furnishings, equipment, and playground equipment for a community outreach center serving poor and marginalized residents of Pigtown.
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
$20,000 / 2005 / Education
Continued support of the Music Teacher Mentoring Program for newly hired Baltimore City public elementary and middle school teachers for the 2005-2006 school year. The weekly program has been designed to upgrade classroom techniques and strategies by providing demonstrations, workshops, videotaping, and coaching. The purpose of the program is to support newly hired teachers by implementing enhanced music curricula that meet state and national standards, and to increase the retention rate of music teachers.