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Grant Awards For Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2001
Community Affairs
Baltimore Community Foundation / $256,250
As the Baltimore Community Foundation continues to build a permanent, independent civic endowment to benefit current and future generations of Baltimoreans, this grant is helping to strengthen the organization's fundraising and grantmaking abilities. The Baltimore Community Foundation raises, manages, and distributes funds for charitable purposes throughout greater Baltimore.Enoch Pratt Free Library / $69,000
The Pratt Library currently houses a collection of fundraising and grants resources to assist local nonprofit organizations. This three-year grant supports the library's efforts to broaden that collection into a comprehensive research center for organizations that rely on volunteers to raise funds church groups, neighborhood organizations, and small social service providers. With this support, the library will add up-to-date print and electronic resources to its existing collection and provide patrons with improved access to databases and the Internet.Youth as Resources / $45,000
Under the umbrella of the Baltimore Community Foundation, Youth as Resources trains young people and involves them in making grants to youth-led organizations in Baltimore. This three-year grant supports YAR's efforts to reach $50,000 in grant distributions in the coming year and to strengthen its programs.
Education
Greenmount School / $90,000
A private, parent-and-teacher-run school located in the Remington neighborhood, Greenmount School provides a high-quality education for children in an economically and racially diverse environment. Since 1992, Greenmount's enrollment in grades 1 through 8 has grown to 65 students, and its tuition is relatively modest, at less than $4,000 annually. This three-year grant supports the school's efforts to build a solid fundraising program that will complement the strong volunteer efforts of teachers, parents, and board members.Johns Hopkins University / $256,250
This grant, applied at the discretion of the university's president, supports the Goldseker Scholarship Fund, which last year provided financial aid to thirteen undergraduates from the Baltimore metropolitan area.
Morgan State University / $256,250
At the discretion of the university's president, this grant supports the Goldseker Fellows Program, which in 2001 provided fellowships to ninety-eight graduate students from the Baltimore metropolitan area. The grant also supports the Morgan State University Choir and the Morgan State Academy of Finance, a special program at Lake Clifton-Eastern High School designed to motivate students to prepare for careers in finance.
New Song Community Learning Center / $30,000
In the heart of the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, the New Song Community Learning Center is a profound success in the midst of one of the City's poorest neighborhoods. Encouraged by the academic success of its elementary school, the center's leadership set out three years ago to construct and outfit a middle school. As construction moves forward, this grant supports a prominent educator and consultant to develop a governing board with greater business and fundraising experience and to further develop the new middle school curriculum.
Human Services
THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore / $256,250
This grant continues support for the Goldseker Foundation Aid and Education Fund. The fund assists new immigrants settling in Baltimore to become independent and self-supporting.Center for Poverty Solutions / $50,000
The Center for Poverty Solutions was created three years ago through the merger of two organizations, the Maryland Food Committee and Advocates for the Homeless. The center, under new executive leadership, is one of the few local nonprofit organizations providing a public voice on poverty its direct effects on people's lives and its broader impact on society. This grant supports outside consulting assistance to thoroughly review and revise its financial and management systems.
Maryland Food Bank / $10,000
Established in 1979, the Maryland Food Bank has grown into a nationally recognized provider of more than ten million pounds of food each year to Maryland's neediest citizens. The Food Bank currently has a facility in West Baltimore that is no longer adequate. This grant supports a capital feasibility and planning study to lay the groundwork for success in funding a new facility.
University of Maryland School of Social Work / $35,000
In 1998, the University of Maryland School of Social Work established a partnership among the school's Social Work Community Outreach Service and four community-based organizations in East Baltimore: St. Frances Academy, South East Community Organization, Centro de la Communidad, and the Baltimore American Indian Center. The partnership places one or more graduate-level social work interns with each organization. This grant provides staff support for the East Baltimore partnership.Neighborhood Development
Baltimore Economy and Efficiency Foundation / $50,000
The Baltimore Economy and Efficiency Foundation conducts nonpartisan research on City management, operations, and fiscal and tax policy; on strategies to increase the municipal tax base by attracting new businesses and home owners; and on ways to improve regional cooperation between Baltimore City and the adjoining counties. BEEF is working with the relevant City departments and with the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors to sell City-owned property through the private market. This grant will support BEEF's efforts to help the City identify vacant and underused properties for expeditious sale or reuse, and thus increase revenues.
Bons Secours of Maryland Foundation / $50,000
An independent entity originally created by Bon Secours Hospital in Southwest Baltimore, the Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation helps neighborhood residents and stakeholders plan and implement projects, develops and manages affordable housing, and creates market conditions for homeownership. Its rental housing generates more than $2.1 million annually in rents and fees, and it raises more than $1.4 million in City, State, Federal, corporate, foundation, and private funds. This grant provides core operating support and funds the organization's community development staff.
East Baltimore Development Corporation / $750,000
Over the course of 2001, a consulting team under the direction of Urban Design Associates (see page 26) assessed the feasibility and cost of major physical and economic development of eighty-one acres of land north of the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus. A portion of that area is slated to become a biotechnology research and development park. The effort will entail the careful relocation of several hundred remaining residents and the creation of a mix of new housing, new transportation infrastructure, and retail development. This three-year grant provides start-up support for the new East Baltimore Development Corporation, which will coordinate the complex, long-term transformation of a severely distressed community.
Maryland Center for Community Development / $100,000
Since 1998, the Foundation has supported a staff position at the Maryland Center for Community Development to help its member organizations more effectively integrate economic development into their community-housing-development process. This two-year grant provides continued support for this effort and new funds to provide customized consulting assistance for organizations undertaking more complex projects.
Neighborhood Design Center / $50,000
Drawing on a strong staff of community planners and landscape architects and a pool of 250 volunteer design professionals, the Neighborhood Design Center focuses on community-sponsored initiatives that improve neighborhood livability and viability. New Strategies targets depopulated areas with high numbers of unoccupied, vacant, and abandoned houses and other properties; Neighborly Places works with transitional neighborhoods struggling with declining housing values, but intact assets, that do not suffer from high rates of crime or abandonment. This grant helps NDC continue to apply existing and new research to problems in depopulated and transitional neighborhoods and to forge partnerships with Citywide and neighborhood nonprofit organizations.
Urban Design Associates / $40,000
In the first half of 2001, supported by Foundation funding awarded in November 2000, Urban Design Associates studied the feasibility of placing a major biomedical research facility adjacent to the Johns Hopkins medical campus in East Baltimore. The group also assessed the possibility of a significant physical revitalization of the larger and severely distressed Middle East community. The study's results show that a mix of biomedical and residential development could produce a more attractive, secure environment; new mixed-income housing; new retail opportunities; and at least 4000 jobs. This grant supports the second phase of the study, which includes working with the community to develop a comprehensive relocation plan for current residents, preparing a detailed financial plan for the biomedical and community development aspects of the project, and developing an organizational structure and staff to carry the project forward.