The following grants are among those awarded in 2008.

Baltimore City Health Department/Safe Streets $100,000
Baltimore, MD
For the expansion of Safe Streets, an initiative designed to reduce gun-related violence in selected vulnerable neighborhoods in Baltimore City.

Baltimore City Public School System/Baltimore City College $35,000
Baltimore, MD
For support of teacher recruitment and professional development in an effort to improve the International Baccalaureate Advanced Placement programs.

Baltimore City Public School System/Early Identification and
Intervention Project $72,878
Baltimore, MD
In support of a one-year demonstration project, offering intensive instructional interventions for students known as non-responders and failing to meet appropriate benchmarks.

Baltimore Healthcare Access, Inc. $10,000
Baltimore, MD
For continued support of a program providing birth certificates and photo identification for Baltimore City residents who are in need of health insurance, temporary shelter, housing, and addiction services.
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Civic Works $213,000
Baltimore. MD
For Project Lightbulb, an energy conservation pilot program offering free home-energy education, strategies, and installation of energy-saving florescent light bulbs in 300 households in the Belair-Edison and Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhoods.

Food Research & Action Center $25,000
Washington, DC
In support of the recently established Baltimore-based Maryland Hunger Solutions program, an anti-hunger advocacy project designed for low-income Baltimore City residents to encourage greater participation in Baltimore City Public Schools’ free breakfast program and utilization of food stamps.

Maryland ACORN/ American Institute for Social Justice $35,000
Baltimore, MD
Toward expenses related to the hiring of organizers and housing counselors for ACORN Housing in Maryland to continue helping low- to moderate-income Maryland Homeowners prevent foreclosures.

Neighbor to Family $95,000
Baltimore, MD
For recruitment, screening, licensing and training of 30 new foster caregivers for the Neighbor to Family Sibling Foster Care program in Baltimore City.

Teach for America $125,000
Baltimore, MD
For the continuation of an initiative to recruit, train and provide on-going support for 85 new corps members and 75 second-year returning corps members to teach in Baltimore City Public Schools during the 2008-2009 school year.

Transitioning Lives $75,000
Baltimore, MD
A challenge grant for the expansion of a residential facility providing single-room occupancy for male ex-offenders.

University of Maryland/Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc. $75,000 Adelphi., MD
A three-year grant for long-term research of planting 80 acres of switch grass buffers along the Corsica River. The objective is to introduce the concept of perennial grass-based bio-fuel production on a small scale while measuring the positive filtering effect of the switch grass on nitrogen leaching from the croplands.

Waterkeeper Alliance $30.000
Irvington, NY
Toward the support of the Chesapeake Stormwater Initiative, a collaborative project of eight local waterkeepers to monitor and initiate legal action against blatant polluters of Maryland waterways.

Archive of Grant Awards

To see complete lists of grants funded in previous years, see the Annual Reports section of Publications/Research.