The Piney Woods School
$141,320 / 2001 / Education
To provide scholarships at a boarding school for selected at-risk Baltimore City adolescent male students for the 2001-2002 school year. The grant includes funding for the salary of a retention counselor whose responsibilities are to encourage positive attitudes, appropriate social behavior and academic achievement.
The Shelter Foundation, Inc.
$16,095 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Three grants for continued support of the After-School Homework Centers and summer camp at Bentana Apartments.
The Shepherd’s Clinic-William H.M. Finney Foundation, Inc.
$45,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Continued funding to provide primary medical and dental care to persons in Baltimore City who lack medical and/or dental insurance.
Unity Center of Christianity
$18,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
For continued support of the “Do You Know Where Your Children Are?” program for the 2001-2002 school year. This grassroots pilot project offers incentives to participating parents and other adults who assume full responsibility for knowing where their middle school-age children are during the afternoon and evening hours of the school week.
University of Maryland at Baltimore
$86,000 / 2001 / Health and Human Services
Two-year funding for the implementation of the maternal Substance Abuse Acupuncture Program. The goals of the program are to improve the health of the addicted pregnant mother and to improve the parent-child relationships. Therapeutic play is an ancillary program to the daily treatment process for the mothers.