The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies
$70,000 / 2005 / Workforce Development
Third-year funding for staffing costs of a Senior Research Analyst position for the Baltimore Workforce Investment Board. The analyst will determine the effectiveness of the ex-offender Re-Entry Center at Mondawmin Mall.
Vehicles for Change, Inc.
$49,500 / 2005 / Workforce Development
Seventh-year funding of a car ownership program designed to make reliable, reconditioned, low-cost cars available to low-income Baltimore City residents.
Washington Village/ Pigtown Neighborhood Planning Council, Inc.
$171,089 / 2005 / Workforce Development
For support of Managed Work Services-Baltimore, a transitional work experience to prepare job seekers for permanent employment. Managed Work Services contracts with businesses to staff high turnover, entry-level positions. Teams of up to ten Managed Work Services employees work alongside a job coach to gain valuable work experience in these temporary, transitional jobs, and are then placed into permanent jobs.