Past Grants

Community College of Baltimore County Foundation

Toward support of a job-training program for 70 ex-offenders and homeless persons at the Our Daily Bread Employment Center in Baltimore City. This program will focus on training and job placement in commercial truck driving and building maintenance.

GROUP Ministries, Inc .

For the purchase of a house in the Rosemont community, and to provide job training for ex-offenders engaged in the renovation work of that house. GROUP Ministries plans to train 20 to 30 men in carpentry, drywall, and painting in preparation for pre-journeyman status. The house, once completed, will be used as a transitional group home for ex-offenders in recovery.

The Men’s Center, Inc.

To hire a fund-raising consultant to assist with renovations for expansion of meeting space and the food distribution area.

Normandy House, Inc.

For renovations of a resource center serving residents of the Coldstream/Homestead/Montebello communities. The center will provide 50 children and their families with a variety of programs designed to engage children in safe activities outside the school day, in order to help keep children off the streets. During the day, a computer lab will be open to neighborhood residents. Volunteers, serving as mentors, teachers, and tutors, will operate the center and offer tutoring assistance, computer classes, piano and other music lessons, sign-language instruction, and a book club.

Art With A Heart

For continued support and expansion of Summer Jobcorps, a visual arts program for 30 at-risk youth living in the Rose Street community. Developed as a four-week job-training program for 14- to 21-year-olds, Art With A Heart offers summer work experience in the creating and selling of marketable art at the 2007 Artscape.