Grant Awards for Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2002
Priority Grant Areas
Community Development
During 2002, the Foundation authorized fifteen community development grants totaling $755,325.
Direct Program Expenses $106,700
This funding supported consulting assistance to organizations in the Foundation's priority neighborhoods and city-wide efforts to create stronger communities.
Priority Neighborhoods
Belair- Edison Neighborhoods, Inc. $50,000
A transitional neighborhood in northeast Baltimore, Belair- Edison benefits from solid and attractive rowhouse architecture, Herring Run Park, a public golf course , a reviving commercial strip, and proximity to the Johns Hopkins Bayview medical campus. Over the past few years, Belair- Edison Neighborhoods, Inc ., has worked with the Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative to revitalize the community by offering innovative housing loan products, marketing the area to residents and outsiders, and organizing block projects that rebuild pride and confidence in the neighborhood. This grant supports core staffing.
Charles Village Community Benefits District $50,000
Charles Village is a diverse neighborhood in north-central Baltimore that includes historic rowhouses and apartment buildings, the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus, a variety of commercial enterprises, and several non-profit organizations. The Benefits District works to improve sanitation and safety in the area and to strengthen and market the neighborhood's many assets, including its proximity to Penn Station, the Station North Arts District, Mt. Vernon cultural institutions, and the Inner Harbor. This grant supports a volunteer coordinator, economic development programs, and staff development.
Creative Alliance $25,000
Based a few blocks east of Patterson Park, the Creative Alliance is an organization that supports the revitalization of southeast Baltimore by organizing a remarkable array of classes, exhibitions, and events that draw 14,000 people to the area each year. The Creative Alliance celebrates the racial and cultural diversity of the southeast neighborhoods, which now include Hispanic, African, and Eastern European immigrants in addition to established Greek, Italian, African-American, and Native American communities. This grant supports core staffing and collaboration with the Southeast Community Development Corporation.
Friends of Patterson Park $25,000
Over the past few years, Patterson Park has become a significant amenity for the neighborhoods of southeast Baltimore, and the site of cultural and sporting events that draw participants from all over the city. Much of the credit for the park's transformation should go to the Friends of Patterson Park, who joined with the Patterson Park Community Development Corporation to organize a series of events in the park and to work for major improvements in lighting, sanitation, tree cover, and structures especially renovation of the park's historic pagoda. This grant supports general operating expenses and special events.
Greater Homewood Community Corporation $100,000
A long-standing umbrella organization linking forty neighborhoods in central and northern Baltimore City, the Community Corporation undertook a strategic planning process in 2001 to restructure the organization and focus its programming. It has identified Education and Youth Development and Community Revitalization and Economic Development as its priority program areas, to build on its success in bringing community volunteers into local schools and in helping to organize local communities. This grant supports general operating expenses as well as community revitalization and economic development activities.
Midtown Development Corporation $150,000
Site of some of Baltimore's finest historic residential architecture, until recently Midtown suffered substantial decline, as houses were converted from owner occupancy to rental properties, and as many properties began to suffer from long-term neglect by absent owners. Over the past two years, however, the Midtown Development Corporation has used a strategy of aggressive intervention in the housing market and, with the assistance of Live Baltimore Home Center, creative marketing of Midtown as a residential community to begin to revitalize the neighborhood. Property values are increasing and resident confidence is growing. This two-year grant provides general operating support.
Patterson Park Community Development Corporation $75,000
Trying to revitalize a neighborhood bordered by severe blight to the north and robust revitalization to the south, Patterson Park Community Development Corporation (CDC) has focused on buying and rehabilitating houses for rent or purchase near the park. The CDC has worked with other nonprofit organizations in the area, including Banner Neighborhoods, the Creative Alliance, and Friends of Patterson Park, to strengthen local communities and to market the area around the park as a diverse, fun place to live. This grant supports staff architects, rehabilitation staff, an acquisitions specialist, and staff training and information systems.
Southeast Community Development Corporation $75,000
Created in 2001 as a spin-off from the Southeast Community Organization, the Southeast Community Development Corporation has focused its efforts on spurring investment in the residential and commercial areas in Highlandtown, a southeast Baltimore City neighborhood just east of Patterson Park. Southeast CDC is particularly focused on improving the stretch of Eastern Avenue that runs through Highlandtown, by working with merchants to improve sanitation and safety and by broker ing deals that will lead to significant new investment in the area. This grant provides support for core staff, operating expenses, and contracted services.
Citywide Development
Baltimore Main Streets $50,000
In partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Baltimore Main Streets is working to restore vitality and prosperity to seven business districts in Baltimore. It provides financial support and technical assistance to those commercial areas, based on a nationally proven strategy tailored to local needs and opportunities. The Main Street approach focuses on improving each district's design, organization, promotion, and mix of businesses. This grant supports architectural services for businesses in the seven commercial districts.
Community Development Meetings $13,200
As local public and private funders of community development look for more effective ways to revitalize Baltimore neighborhoods, there is much to be learned from what similar cities are doing. Pittsburgh has developed effective public-private partnerships to rehabilitate older neighborhoods threatened with decline and to redevelop areas where factory closings or demolition have created large tracts of unused land. In April 2002, the Foundation sponsored a trip for Baltimore community development funders to Pittsburgh to meet with government, foundation, and non-profit officials to better understand key elements of that city's community development system.
Community Law Center $25,000
In many neighborhoods across Baltimore, predatory lending practices often involving the illegal purchase, cosmetic repair, and resale of properties to inexperienced homebuyers for a dramatic profit have resulted in high numbers of bankruptcies and foreclosures. Low- and moderate- income families have suffered from these practices, and their neighborhoods have declined when houses sold by predatory lenders either do not receive needed repairs or end up vacant after foreclosure.The Community Law Center and its partner organizations have helped reduce the number of flipped properties through a combination of prosecution, publicity, consumer education, and regulatory reform. This grant supports core staffing and administrative expenses.
Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative $50,000
The Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative, coordinated by the Baltimore Community Foundation, focuses on the revitalization of seven Baltimore neighborhoods in the middle (neither deeply distressed nor thriving) by strengthening local housing markets and social connections among residents. After two years, target areas in many of the initiative's pilot neighborhoods are showing signs of success: increased sales activity and rising home values, greater investment by current home owners, and more neighborhood events and block projects. This grant supports staff and overhead costs of stimulating housing loans, carrying out block projects to stimulate investment, and marketing the neighborhoods to potential homebuyers.
Live Baltimore Home Center $25,000
For many years Baltimore's public image hindered the City's ability to attract and retain residents. The Live Baltimore Home Center is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that uses a variety of media and incentives to generate favorable public perception about Baltimore and to actively recruit people to rent or buy residential property in the City. Live Baltimore's campaign to market Baltimore to Washington, D.C., residents generated substantial local and national media coverage and led to a noticeable increase in Washingtonians; relocating to Baltimore. This grant supports core staff, relocation expenses, and the D.C . marketing campaign.
Neighborhood Design Center $40,000
An active partner of many community development organizations in Baltimore, the Neighborhood Design Center draws on an extensive volunteer network of design professionals to help groups redesign and revitalize their neighborhoods. The Foundation has supported the Design Center's efforts to develop and implement Community Strategies, which consists of two distinct approaches to urban design: New Strategies, for severely distressed neighborhoods, and Neighborly Places, for neighborhoods in the middle that are trying to strengthen housing markets and residents' social connections. This grant supports staff to implement those strategies.
Public Sector Management Training $2,125
In 2001, the Foundation supported a two-day training session for more than forty Baltimore City and State of Maryland employees in market-oriented approaches to neighborhood revitalization. In May 2002, the same group of public employees participated in a follow-up training led by national neighborhood revitalization consultants Michael Schubert and Charles Buki. That session gave participants the opportunity to discuss neighborhood revitalization strategies in an actual neighborhood setting.
Nonprofit Sector
Sixteen grants totaling $283,250 were authorized in this category in 2002. Nonprofit-sector grants are made in two categories: grants to individual nonprofit groups for organizational development and grants to organizations that strengthen the leadership and management of nonprofits throughout the region.
Direct Program Expenses $50,700
This funding supported consulting assistance to nonprofit groups receiving grants to improve organizational performance.
Organizational Development
Thirteen management assistance grants were awarded in the following categories:
Strategic Planning
These organizations each received a grant of $10,000 to review factors that can contribute to organizational success, to evaluate current programming, and to strategically choose long-range goals.
Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
Founded in 1986, the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning has become a national model for changing public policy and managing direct-service programs to reduce the risk of childhood lead poisoning in Maryland. CECLP is developing a long-range plan to achieve its aim of eliminating lead poisoning through the creation of affordable, lead-safe housing.
Charles Village Community Benefits District
The Charles Village Community Benefits District is a community-based organization founded to improve the livability and marketability of this north-central Baltimore neighborhood. Last year, CVCBD completed a community survey to better understand the perception and impact of its programs. This year, based on the community evaluation, the organization will develop a strategic plan to guide its work.
Downtown Baltimore Child Care
At the time that the nonprofit Downtown Baltimore Child Care was founded in 1983, it was the only downtown child care facility that offered an early education program. The availability of and need for high-quality child care and early education have expanded since the organization last developed a strategic plan in 1990. Through planning, DBCC will review market factors that affect the organization's sustainability and growth, clarify its niche, and set future goals, including goals for serving a growing population of lower income families.
Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations
Since its founding a decade ago, Maryland Nonprofits has grown into one of the nation's leading statewide nonprofit management support organ izations. Through careful program planning and evaluation, Maryland Nonprofits has launched and sustained a range of innovative and effective programs, including the Executive Transition service and Standards for Excellence. This management assistance grant helps the staff and board leaders of Maryland Nonprofits review progress made toward program goals identified in its strategic plan of four years ago, assess current nonprofit-sector needs, and set long-range goals for supporting and strengthening the sector.
Midtown Community Benefits District
The Midtown Community Benefits District was founded in 1985 and reauthorized in 1999. It focuses on increasing the livability of several historic communities just north of Baltimore's downtown business district. The organization is undertaking strategic planning to engage community leaders before undergoing reauthorization as a benefits district in 2003.
South Baltimore Learning Center
Founded thirteen years ago, SBLC works to improve the education and job skills of people who live or work in South Baltimore and adjacent areas. SBLC has grown steadily from an all-volunteer group to a staffed organization that is completing a major capital project that will greatly expand its facilities and programs. In anticipation of its new facilities and funds, SBLC is reviewing current programs and stakeholder needs and setting future program goals.
Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore
Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore is a national model for helping low-income people develop thriving small businesses. WEB has grown steadily over the past decade. In the coming year, its leaders w ill create a five-year strategic plan to help guide and sustain growth and innovation.
Women's Housing Coalition
The Women's Housing Coalition is a twenty-year-old organization that assists formerly homeless women in achieving self-sufficiency through supportive services and housing. The past decade has been one of growth and accomplishment for WHC. The organization's leadership will create a strategic plan that blends its grassroots history and values with its commitment to innovative services, responsiveness to community need, and fiscal stability.
Fundraising Development
These organizations each received a grant of $10,000 for the development of a multi-year plan to diversify and expand income and to develop the skills of board and staff members to achieve fundraising-plan goals.
Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation
Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation is a community and economic development organization affiliated with Bon Secours Health System, which has actively supported the revitalization of Southwest Baltimore neighborhoods. BSMF has effectively marshaled support for the community development goals of Operation ReachOut Southwest, a coalition of twelve neighborhoods surrounding the hospital. This grant helps BSMF leaders develop a plan to expand and sustain the organization's fundraising.
New Song Urban Ministries
New Song Urban Ministries was founded in 1991 to redevelop a fifteen-block area in the Sandtown-Winchester community of West Baltimore. In the past decade, New Song's innovative leaders have established a range of programs Sandtown Habitat for Humanity, New Song Community Learning Center, New Song Family Health Services, EDEN Jobs and have renovated 175 vacant homes for homeownership. This grant helps New Song develop a long-range plan for raising the funds it needs to sustain its programs and facilities for local residents.
Technology and Financial Systems Planning
These organizations each received a grant of $5,000 to help develop and implement plans that improve internal information and communications systems.
Citizens Planning & Housing Association
The Citizens Planning & Housing Association engages and develops citizen leaders for action on issues that are important to the Baltimore region. This grant helps CPHA develop a strategy for investing in technology upgrades to support an efficient and effective workplace.
Friends of the Family
Friends of the Family fosters policies and programs that strengthen Maryland families with very young children. The organization coordinates a network of thirty-one Family Support Centers and provides training and technical assistance to more than forty organizations annually. This grant helps Friends of the Family develop a strategic plan for investment in upgraded technology.
Greenmount School
Located in Charles Village, Greenmount School was founded a decade ago as an independent, parent-led private school that now has established a reputation for providing high-quality and creative instruction. This grant helps school leaders develop and implement an automated system for financial planning and reporting.
Nonprofit Sector Development
Business Volunteers Unlimited Maryland $50,000
Business Volunteers Unlimited Maryland is developing and launching a new board leadership vehicle for the nonprofit sector by refocusing the mission of the former Volunteer Central. BVU Maryland will expand the recruiting and training of talented leaders from the corporate community for leadership on nonprofit boards. Effective and engaged board leadership is essential to the health and success of nonprofit organizations. This grant provides general support for the new program.
Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations $115,000
Maryland Nonprofits offers high-quality technical assistance, information, referrals, training, member services, research, and advocacy that benefit the State's nonprofit sector. This grant provides $35,000 to sustain Maryland Nonprofit's Executive Transition service and $80,000 for the Maryland On-Line Community, an expanded, Internet-based resource for the State's nonprofit community.
Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations $3,250
This grant provides scholarships for Goldseker grantees to attend training sessions on fundraising and on working with organizational development consultants.
Regional Initiatives
During 2002, the Foundation authorized four grants totaling $266,200 to support regional initiatives.
Direct Program Expenses $50,700
This funding supported consulting assistance to organizations working to improve regional awareness and cooperation in the Baltimore region.
1000 Friends of Maryland $30,000
An active advocate for State and regional policies that limit sprawl, 1000 Friends of Maryland links individuals and organizations working across the State on environmental, transportation, and development issues. To educate the public about the negative effects of unplanned growth, the organization researched and published SmartGrowth: How is Your County Doing? a report that compares how the Baltimore region's five county jurisdictions are focusing investment in defined growth areas, preserving agricultural land, planning for new growth, and revitalizing existing communities. This grant supports core staffing.
Baltimore Regional Partnership $75,000
A coalition of the Baltimore Urban League, Citizens Planning & Housing Association, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 1000 Friends of Maryland, and Environmental Defense, the Baltimore Regional Partnership focuses on land use and transportation issues. By improving access to mass transit and other alternatives to the automobile , and by focusing residential and commercial development where the infrastructure already exists to support it, the partnership hopes to stimulate improvements in the region's environment, public health, access to housing and jobs, and overall quality of life. This grant supports core staffing and operating costs.
Citizens Planning & Housing Association $125,000
As one of several organizations undertaking regional initiatives in the Baltimore area, CPHA has focused on creating a strong grassroots constituency for change by drawing on its established strengths in community outreach and mobilization. In 2002, CPHA organized the second Rally for the Region, which attracted local, state, and national politicians and more than 1,500 citizens representing 200 organizations. Building on this base, CPHA is developing and advocating for policies and legislation that promote regional solutions to shared challenges. This grant supports regional staff, consulting assistance, and operating costs.
The Frog's Lesson (Regional Report 2002) $36,200
To place the health of the Baltimore region in a larger context, the Goldseker Foundation commissioned a report to identify how Baltimore is faring economically and socially compared with similar regions. Dr. Royce Hanson and a team of researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, assembled and analyzed data comparing greater Baltimore with Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C., in terms of quality of life, natural environment, land use, economy, and population. Working with the UMBC data and analysis, Goldseker staff members wrote the report, which is available under our Occasional Papers tab.
Established Program Areas
In the established program areas, the Foundation awarded eighteen grants during 2002, totaling $2,526,400.
Community Affairs
Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers $50,000
In 1983, the Goldseker Foundation and several other local funders created ABAG to provide educational services to its members and act as a responsible voice of and center for the region's organized philanthropy. Now ABAG has 103 foundation and corporate members, a core staff of five, and an active series of programs that promote private giving and inform its members' philanthropic programs. In observance of its twentieth anniversary, ABAG plans to hold a series of special events and to publish a report on Baltimore-area philanthropy. This grant is in support of ABAG's twentieth-anniversary programs.
Baltimore Community Foundation $246,600
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.
Baltimore Community Foundation $1,000,000
From 1989 through 2000 the Baltimore Community Foundation and the Goldseker Foundation were affiliated, and during that time the Community Foundation's assets increased ninefold, to more than $100 million, and its annual charitable distributions in the Baltimore area went from less than $1 million to more than $12 million. However, rapid growth outdistanced the Community Foundation's staff and technological capacity. Consequently, the Community Foundation is embarking on a multi-year campaign to improve its staff and technological infrastructure and to increase its discretionary grant funds. This five-year, unrestricted operating grant supports the campaign.
CEOs for Cities $25,000
Created in 1999, CEOs for Cities brings together high-profile leadership teams from major cities mayors; university presidents; and business, civic, and foundation leaders semiannually to share information about their efforts to make their cities more economically competitive. CEOs for Cities intends to develop a body of knowledge about such activities, and over time to form a coalition that effectively represents the interests of cities nationally. Baltimore stands to gain both from participating in CEOs for Cities and from the establishment of a stronger national voice for urban areas. This grant pays dues and provides general support.
Education
Johns Hopkins University $246,600
This grant, applied at the discretion of the university's president, supports the Goldseker Scholarship Fund, which last year provided financial aid to twelve undergraduates from the Baltimore metropolitan area.
Morgan State University $246,600
At the discretion of the university's president, this grant supports the Goldseker Fellows Program, which in 2001 provided fellowships to sixty-nine 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.
Midtown Academy $25,000
The Midtown Academy was established in 1997 by a coalition of parents and teachers who wanted to create a rigorous, diverse, community-based alternative to public schools in the Bolton Hill and Reservoir Hill communities. Midtown is a new school that is funded by the Baltimore City public school system but more independently designed and governed than a standard public school. There are no performance-related entry criteria; the core requirement for a child's enrollment is that the child's parents volunteer 75 hours a year at the school. The students' academic achievement has been impressive to date. This grant provides support toward a volunteer coordinator, a fund raising program, and a database manager.
Village Learning Place $80,000
Created in a closed neighborhood library, the Village Learning Place has become an education center for Charles Village residents of different ages, interests, and academic backgrounds. Since 1999, more than 8,000 hours of volunteer service and successful fundraising from public and private sources have been combined to allow the Learning Center to offer free library services to low-income families, after-school educational programs to young people, workforce development for teens, technology classes for all ages, and cultural programs for the community at large. The center provides a place where families can get involved in their children's learning. This grant helps support a director of programs and a director of development.
Human Services
THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore $246,600
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.
Advocates for Children and Youth $20,000
The core mission of ACY, founded in 1987, is to provide an independent voice for the needs of Maryland children in the community, media, and public-policy arena. To this end, ACY helps shape public policies and programs at the state and local level. The agency's goals include ensuring that children have access to affordable healthcare, high-quality education, safe opportunities for positive development, and economic assistance to meet basic needs. This grant supports a consultant to provide strategic planning assistance to the Maryland Children's Action Network, a statewide coalition of 200 agencies and individuals organized by ACY to advocate for the programs and policies that have the best chance of helping children.
BioTechnical Institute of Maryland $50,000
Created by Dr. Margaret Penno, associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Bio Technical Institute trains and places disadvantaged Baltimore high school graduates as laboratory technicians, thus helping provide a reliable workforce for the growing biotechnology industry in Baltimore. The institute also delivers specialized training programs to improve the skills of entry-level biotechnology workers in the region. As of mid-2002, eighty-three participants had completed the program, and its graduates were working for twenty-four employers. This grant provides operating support to help the institute grow to meet the increasing demand for skilled and reliable entry-level biotechnology workers.
Maryland Regional Practitioners Network for Fathers and Families $25,000
Linking organizations and individuals trying to make programs and policies more responsive to low-income fathers, the Maryland Regional Practitioners Network for Fathers and Families has become a leading father-focused advocacy organization in Maryland. The network has focused on helping low-income fathers comply with child support laws, advocating for state funding of job training and work readiness training for low-income fathers as well as mothers, establishing awareness of access and visitation rights for fathers, and restoring the right to vote for ex-felons. This grant provides core staffing support.
YMCA of Central Maryland $50,000
A well-established provider of services to individuals and families throughout Central Maryland, the YMCA is building a state-of-the-art facility at Stadium Place, former site of Memorial Stadium. The new facility will serve the surrounding neighborhoods and the residents of a new mixed-income senior housing development at Stadium Place, organized by the nonprofit Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation. The new YMCA facility plans to open in fall 2003, which is requiring extensive program planning and neighborhood outreach. This grant partially supports compensation of an executive director for the YMCA at Stadium Place.
Neighborhood Development
Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc. $55,000
Created to stabilize and revitalize neighborhoods in the northwestern corner of Baltimore, since the late 1970s CHAI has helped that part of the city remain relatively healthy. CHAI's work has resulted in the creation of more than 600 units of new and renovated senior housing, established successful school-community partnerships, provided convening and planning assistance to diverse community associations, and built bridges among African-American, Latino, and Jewish residents in the Falstaff area. To help CHAI remain a visible and effective presence in the area, this grant supports the salary of a community development coordinator.
Greater Mondawmin Coordinating Council $10,000
Greater Mondawmin is a cluster of West Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the Mondawmin Mall, an area that includes Hanlon Park, the Liberty Heights campus of Baltimore City Community College, and Coppin State University. Largely middle class until the 1980s, the area now struggles with drugs, crime, vacant houses, and families in crisis. The Greater Mondawmin Coordinating Council is an umbrella organization of eight neighborhood associations that are working to revitalize the community by building on anchor institutions. The council produced a master plan for reversing decline, and it will help coordinate the plan's implementation. This grant supports core staffing.
Greektown Community Development Corporation $75,000
Immediately to the east of Patterson Park and Highlandtown, Greektown is a community that began to show signs of decline increases in crime, litter, and vacant housing in the 1990s. In response, the community created the Greektown Community Development Corporation, headed by a retired Baltimore police commander. This organization has already helped the neighborhood become cleaner and safer, and it has developed a coherent plan for neighborhood improvement. This two-year grant supports the position of community organizer.
Light Street Housing Corporation $25,000
Sharp-Leadenhall is a mixed-race, mixed-income neighborhood just west of Federal Hill where Light Street Housing has built and rehabilitated affordable homes and employed a community organizer to help residents undertake beautification, safety, advocacy, and youth activities. Light Street currently is working with Baltimore City to acquire, rehabilitate, and manage decaying City-owned houses in the area and to build affordable new homes. This grant provides $15,000 in continued support for the community organizer position and up to $10,000 in predevelopment costs.
Reservoir Hill Improvement Council $50,000
Reservoir Hill went into a deep decline after World War II that only recently has begun to reverse. In the past five years the area's housing prices have increased, driven by the strength of resident initiatives in historic districts in the northwest and southeast sections of the neighborhood. The Reservoir Hill Improvement Council is the umbrella organization for the area's different block associations and it plays a crucial role in coordinating revitalization efforts. The area also benefits from Kids on the Hill, a community organization that fosters Reservoir Hill's image as a diverse, tolerant place to live and work. This grant supports core staffing at the council and community-oriented programming for Kids on the Hill.
Discretionary Grants
During 2002,the Foundation made the following small grants from the President's discretionary funds:
• Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers $3,750
• Baltimore Community Foundation $2,500
• Charles Street Development Corporation $5,000
• Community Development Study $2,000
• Edward A. Myerberg Northwest Senior Center $5,000
• University of Baltimore Education Foundation, Inc. $6,475