Past Grants

The Justice Policy Institute/The Tides Center

To provide seed funding for the establishment of a new organization that will address adult and juvenile justice reform issues in the State of Maryland. The agency will provide technical assistance and training to local agencies to help determine the most effective methods of delivering neighborhood-based services to needy populations.

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

For the completion of a study on Medicaid managed care and family planning in Baltimore City. The research addresses two issues: the path women take as they move from traditional Medicaid coverage to enrollment in managed care organizations; and how mandated managed care affects the providers of reproductive health services to the Medicaid population.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

For general support and staffing of Maternity Center East, a women’s health care and family planning facility serving low-income residents of East Baltimore. The Center provides family planning, prenatal, obstetric and primary health care to approximately 3,000 patients who are uninsured or underinsured.

Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies

Toward staffing costs of a senior research analyst to manage and staff the Evaluation and Accountability Committee of the Baltimore Workforce Investment Board. As part of the project, the analyst will provide recommendations for improving Baltimore’s Workforce Development System by creating an “evaluation landscape map” of research being conducted. The purpose of this effort is to determine the gaps in data collection and analyses. With partnering agencies and other Workforce Investment Board members, the analyst will create performance measures of Baltimore’s workforce development system for validation and implementation by the Workforce Investment Board.

Job Opportunities Task Force

Challenge grant toward the salary of the program director of the Transitional Jobs Consortium, a newly created transitional employment program for ex-offenders in Baltimore City. The purpose of the program is to provide services that will help stabilize ex-offenders as they reenter the community.