Communities In Schools of Baltimore, Inc.
$104,400 / 2000 / Education
For the establishment of an alternative middle-school academy at Harlem Park Middle School. In partnership with the Baltimore Orioles, the academy will provide daily remedial educational services, small classes, individual and group counseling, and monthly family therapy support groups.
Community Law Center, Inc.
$5,000 / 2000 / Community Development
Toward staffing costs of a coordinator to focus on Baltimore’s housing crisis, including mortgage scams, flipping schemes, and predatory lending.
Dayspring Programs, Inc.
$55,000 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
For the purchase and renovation of a facility for the expansion of the Dayspring Children’s Place to provide 24-hour residential care for 30 children a year while their parents are in treatment.
Downtown Partnership of Baltimore
$75,000 / 2000 / Community Development
Three-year funding toward the salary of the Director of the Downtown Housing Initiative. The goal of the project is to market the initiative to potential developers, property owners and lenders, and, within a three-year period, to develop 1,000 additional housing units in the downtown area.
Drug Strategies
$124,453 / 2000 / Health and Human Services
For a 15-month study of the health education and risk prevention curricula currently used in the Baltimore City Public School System.