Past Grants

Girl Scouts of Central Maryland

To provide additional transportation for the Beyond Bars Program, an initiative for girls whose mothers are incarcerated at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup and the Baltimore Pre-release Unit for Women.

Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition, Inc.

For continued support of Dee’s Place, a 24-hour substance abuse recovery facility serving residents in East Baltimore. As a key partner in the Threshold to Recovery initiative, Dee’s Place offers counseling, auricular acupuncture, wellness, case management, mental health services, referrals for jobs and housing, and 12-step meetings through the night, from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m.

I Can’t We Can, Inc.

For general support of residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment programs at the new I Can’t We Can (ICWC) Counseling Center in the Park Heights community. ICWC will be able to double its capacity over a three- year period to serve up to 600 clients.

Institutes for Behavior Resources.

For the completion of renovations to the new headquarters of the R.E.A.C.H. mobile drug-abuse treatment program, the first full-service mobile drug-abuse treatment program of its kind. The new headquarters allows for more effective communication and coordination, efficient use of personnel resources, and a dispensing area on-site for methadone and buprenorphine.

Job Opportunities Task Force

For a study on the high cost of goods and services for low-income Baltimore City residents. The report will provide recommendations of ways to relieve the burden of high priced goods and services to low-income city residents, and to begin a community discussion about the inequality of pricing in the Baltimore area.