The Men’s Center, Inc.
$300,000 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
General support to enhance the quality and accountability of the East Baltimore center offering comprehensive services to inner-city fathers in need of job readiness training, parenting and life skills training, GED classes, and individual counseling.
Maryland Food Bank
$48,750 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
To provide staffing and operating costs for expansion of the Baltimore Area Gleaning Network’s outreach efforts, utilizing volunteers to gather leftover produce from regional farms for Baltimore’s working poor families and those at risk of hunger.
Maryland Food Bank
$100,000 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
For implementation of strategic programming to enhance the distribution of donated, salvaged, but unsalable food products for the hungry throughout Maryland.
Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
$30,000 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
Two grants for continued support of the After-Care Program, a family planning program for women released from the Baltimore City Detention Center.
Maryland Community Kitchen
$145,835 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
For repairs, renovations, and related expenses of relocating to the former Haussner’s Restaurant in Highlandtown. Maryland Community Kitchen is a provider of nutritionally appropriate meals and nutrition counseling to people with special dietary needs, or at risk of going hungry. The new facility will also serve as a job training center in culinary arts skills for unemployed or underemployed persons.