Past Grants

Mariposa Child Success Programs

For the development of an evaluation tool for the Promoting School Success Program, which serves teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools. The 32-hour program focuses on teacher training in student-relationship skills, and its objective is to reduce overall classroom disruption.

Boys Hope Girls Hope

For tuition, fees, and living expenses for eight boys graduating from Boys Hope and enrolled in four-year colleges. It is expected that all promising Boys Hope scholars will maintain a GPA of at least 3.0 and finish college. Boys Hope Girls Hope is an educationally focused residential program offering college preparatory education for at-risk, yet academically capable, students.

Johns Hopkins University

Two grants in support of a study, “Connecting Housing and Education Policy: Examining Educational Outcomes for the Children of the Baltimore Mobility Program.” The purpose of the study is to determine how residential relocation through the mobility program can affect access to school quality for Baltimore City children in the Thompson housing assistance program, as compared to achievement levels of those children who have not yet moved.

Teach For America-Baltimore

For expenses related to the cost of recruiting, selecting, training, and ongoing support for 165 new Teach For America (TFA) corps members, including funding to retain 160 second-year cohort members. The program will develop four TFA alumni for leadership positions as lead faculty, principals, or administrators in Baltimore City public schools for the 2011-2012 school year.

Calvert Educational Services

For the implementation of the Verticy Learning Program, a phonics and spelling curriculum at Abbottson Elementary School.