United Ministries, Inc.
$20,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For operating expenses of a transitional housing drug-free program for homeless men, many of whom are recovering from substance abuse and are also HIV positive. Successful completion of the program is defined as the participant’s being employed, pursuing a GED, and securing permanent housing.
University of Maryland Baltimore County/The Shriver Center
$149,936 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For support of the CLEARCorps home repair and education program for the prevention of childhood lead poisoning in the Park Heights neighborhood. The workers are AmeriCorps members who are trained in construction to make home repairs designed to reduce the lead hazards and to provide health education to families in distressed neighborhoods.
TuTTie’s Place
$75,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Toward renovation of a house providing residential services for abused and neglected adolescent boys in foster care.
Sylvan Beach Foundation, Inc.
$111,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the expansion of the Sylvan Beach Cafe and Ice Cream Company, set up as an entrepreneurial endeavor to provide employment for ex-offenders. Modeled after the Delancy Street Foundation in San Francisco that provides career and ownership opportunities, the Sylvan Beach Foundation operates on the principles of project-based learning, high expectations, earned responsibility and privileges, peer leadership and community living.
A Step Forward, Inc./Temple Hope House, Inc.
$25,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Seed funding of an initiative to provide transitional housing and drug treatment programs to adults in Baltimore City, with a focus on the returning ex-offender.