1000 Friends of Maryland
$5,000 / 2002 / Environment
Toward expenses of a one-day conference, Smart Growth in Maryland: Looking Back, Looking Forward.
A Step Forward, Inc./Temple Hope House, Inc.
$25,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
Seed funding of an initiative to provide transitional housing and drug treatment programs to adults in Baltimore City, with a focus on the returning ex-offender.
Access Art, Inc.
$25,000 / 2002 / Arts
Two grants toward the renovation of a vacated branch library building to house an art gallery, studio, photography laboratory and graphic computer center for after-school art programs to serve at-risk youth in the Pigtown and Morrell Park neighborhoods. This initiative has been designed to deter anti-social behavior of disengaged youth.
Alternative Directions, Inc.
$7,140 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For the purchase of a database program with capacity of tracking client demographics, outreach services received, referrals, contact with employers and program-related performance outcomes. The intent of the program is to reach non-custodial parents entering the prison system and provide them with child support services.
American Institute for Social Justice/ACORN
$95,000 / 2002 / Health and Human Services
For a comprehensive lead poisoning prevention program in the Park Heights area. The initiative allows for an increase in the number of children that can be tested, and a strengthening of abatement and legal enforcement efforts.