Past Grants

The Johns Hopkins University/ Center for Social Organization of Schools

For an evaluation of the Educational Opportunity Program at two new high schools located at the Southwestern Campus.

The Johns Hopkins University/ Center for Social Organization of Schools

For an evaluation of the impact of new teachers hired by the Baltimore City Public School System. At the point of hiring, this study will make comparisons among: 1) teachers who have full professional certification; 2) teachers who have alternative certification (such as Teach For America and the Baltimore Teaching Residency Program); 3) and teachers who have conditional certification. The evaluation will study teacher retention and daily attendance, PRAXIS (national teacher certification test) scores, contract renewal rates, subject-area expertise, and tuition reimbursement.

The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute

For support of the Community Health Worker Program, which provides free health services to the uninsured in East Baltimore. The institute will recruit ten AmeriCorps volunteers from East Baltimore to serve as community health workers; after training, each worker will follow as many as 50 patients, providing individual medical monitoring and support through home visits and telephone calls. The status of each patient will be tracked by computers.

The Justice Policy Institute

To provide research and guidance to the Campaign for Treatment Not Incarceration, designed to reduce Maryland’s prison population and expand drug treatment and alternatives to incarceration.

The Samaritan Center

Two grants for continued funding of the Travel Voucher Program, which helps homeless people in need of travel assistance. The programs provide bus vouchers to more than 400 homeless people who want to leave Baltimore to reunite with family, find employment, or receive treatment for substance abuse.