Kipp Foundation
$10,000 / 2001 / Education
A planning grant for the establishment of the Kipp Academy-Baltimore City, a highly structured, extended day, cultural arts-based academic program.
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.
Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.
$274,235 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For expansion of the project to address the needs of noncustodial parents whose child support obligations far exceed their ability to pay. By providing individual representation, Legal Aid has been able to identify recurrent issues that adversely affect noncustodial parents, such as driver’s license suspensions, reports to credit agencies and denial of access to child support records.
Live Baltimore Marketing Center
$40,000 / 2001 / Community Development
For continued support of marketing activities designed to promote residential living in Baltimore City. Focus will be website and distribution of sales packets.
Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations
$5,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Toward the development of a policy paper on child support enforcement reform.