Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity
$90,000 / 2003 / Community Development
For partial renovation costs of 15 vacant houses for sale to low-and middle-income families, and for the purchase of a pickup truck to facilitate construction.
Belair-Edison Neighborhoods, Inc.
$25,000 / 2003 / Community Development
Toward expenses of the Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative, which will help fund the collaborative effort to strengthen participating Baltimore neighborhoods. Expenses funded include salary for a marketing coordinator to promote neighborhood reinvestment and to match homeowners and homebuyers to home improvement financing opportunities.
Baltimore Heritage, Inc.
$5,000 / 2003 / Community Development
For expenses related to workshops designed to encourage the use of historic rehabilitation tax credit incentives in Baltimore City’s historic districts.
Baltimore Efficiency & Economy Foundation, Inc.
$5,000 / 2003 / Community Development
For an evaluation of the Department of Recreation and Parks Aquatics Division’s management of Baltimore City swimming pools.
Baltimore Development Corporation
$25,000 / 2003 / Community Development
For administrative expenses of Maglev-Maryland, a program to support the development of a magnetic levitation high-speed train. When fully operational, the train will reduce travel time between Baltimore and Washington to less than 20 minutes.