Koinonia Baptist Church
$30,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Toward the purchase of a 15-passenger van to transport youth to and from the Neighborhood Evening Reporting program. An alternative to detaining youth in juvenile detention facilities, the program is designed to reduce recidivism by offering home-monitored youth computer skills training, conflict resolution and anger management training, tutoring, GED preparation and job readiness training.
Kennedy Krieger Institute
$125,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For general support of programs serving children with neurological disabilities.
Johns Hopkins University/Urban Health Institute
$50,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For an analysis of school health services currently being provided in the Baltimore City public schools and current billing practices for these services. The report will also make recommendations for ways to increase revenues to support and enhance school health services.
Job Opportunities Task Force
$65,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
In support of programs to provide economic opportunities for low-skill job seekers. The Task Force has three priorities: to promote income supports that will enable workers and their families to enjoy a living wage; to increase the number of low-skilled workers trained in information technology jobs; and to reduce barriers hampering employment for ex-offenders.
Job Opportunities Task Force
$30,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For support of a research analyst to conduct a comparative study of Baltimore’s workforce development system with other cities sharing similar demographic characteristics. Components of the study include a review of the cities’ welfare-to-work system; one-stop centers for adults who are not on welfare; youth programs; local community colleges’ curricula; public schools’ vocational and drop-out prevention programs; literacy programs; and public housing workforce initiatives.