Current Grantees
Our grantees work hard in the face of enormous challenges. Their big hearts, dedication, and vision hold the promise of a better future for their clients and inspire us to give our best as well.
Action In Maturity
Services to Seniors
Grant: $25,000
https://www.actioninmaturity.org/
Action in Maturity, the only nonprofit transportation option in Baltimore City, empowers vulnerable seniors to age in place, by providing rides and referrals to social services, medical appointments and supermarkets. Circle funding will support rising expenses for fuel, vehicle maintenance, insurance, and staff.
Baltimore Furniture Bank
Miscellaneous
Grant: $25,000
https://baltimorefurniturebank.org/
Baltimore Furniture Bank, working with local nonprofits that find or provide housing for those in need, connects low-income women with high-quality used furniture to furnish their new homes. These women may be fleeing domestic violence or sexual abuse; they may be immigrants, refugees, elderly or persons with disabilities. BWGC funding will be used for operating expenses.
Black Women Build
Housing
Grant: $25,000
Black Women Build rehabilitates abandoned rowhouses, block by block, and offers a pre-apprenticeship program for trade skills, teaching the basics of plumbing, electrical, and basic home repairs. Participants are eligible to purchase a restored home after taking a home buyer education course. Circle funding will be used for general operating expenses.
Esi's House
Housing
Grant: $25,000
Esi’s House provides long-term, transitional housing and comprehensive support for mothers aged 18-24, allowing them to pursue traditional or trade education and simultaneously care for their children. In addition to providing free housing for up to five years, Esi’s House offers mentorship and career pathways coaching. This grant will provide general operating funds.
Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County
Domestic/Sexual Violence
Grant: $25,000
https://www.familycrisiscenter.net/
Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County works with women and their families to interrupt and prevent cycles of violence in relationships. It offers a safe haven from violence in the short term and provides counseling, rapid rehousing, wrap-around services, and strong community partnerships. This grant will be used to support their services for women exposed to domestic violence.
Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center
Workforce Development
Grant: $25,000
Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center counsels clients, 75% of whom are women, on obtaining, maintaining, and retaining their homes. BWGC’s grant will provide operating funds for the home ownership services program, which strengthens the financial capacity of African American women to qualify for a mortgage, purchase a home, and retain it affordably.
Girls on the Run
Life Skills
Grant: $13,125
https://www.gotrchesapeake.org/
Girls on the Run of the Greater Chesapeake, an after-school program, uses a research-based curriculum to promote confidence and enable adolescent girls to manage their emotions, help others, resolve conflicts, and make thoughtful decisions while improving physical skills. The Circle grant will support expanded access for up to 75 girls in Title I schools.
Good Trouble Church
Case Management/Referral
Grant: $23,500
https://www.goodtroublechurch.org/
Good Trouble Church provides outreach to individuals living on the streets, directing clients to organizations providing safe housing, mental health and substance use treatment as well as federal and state benefits. This grant will provide funding for outreach specialists and for immediate needs such as Medicaid co-pays, ID applications, and bus passes.
Health Care for the Homeless
Health Services
Grant: $25,000
Health Care for the Homeless’s Pediatric and Family Care serves Baltimore’s unhoused individuals, most of whom are women, children, and immigrant families. The program assures that children meet vaccination and developmental height and weight milestones; it also offers mental health care, addiction treatment, obstetric care, and dental care, and connects clients with housing assistance, legal support, and employment resources. The Circle grant will enable this work to continue.
Heaven on Earth NOW
Life Skills
Grant: $25,000
https://www.heavenonearthnow.net/
Heaven On Earth NOW creates a fresh start for people emerging from homelessness and crises. Its Begin Again program provides household essentials and a year-long program that teaches skills needed for employment, financial discipline, safety, and health. BWGC’s grant will help provide a year of life skills teaching, mentoring, and individual casework for newly housed women and their children.
Helping Up Mission
Workforce Development
Grant: $25,000
Helping Up Mission provides comprehensive, individualized support to women, including pregnant women and post-partum mothers with infants and toddlers, in a long-term, residential addiction recovery program. It provides addiction services, education, and vocational training. This grant will help 115 women find sustainable employment and self-sufficiency.
Jeremiah Program
Education
Grant: $25,000
https:/jeremiahprogram.org/campuses/baltimore/
Jeremiah Program disrupts the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children, two generations at a time, by providing the resources for low-income, single mothers to graduate from college. Each mother receives six years of coaching, backup childcare, and emergency funds while children have access to education programs and tutoring. This grant will support salaries for family coaches.
Michele's Haven, CDC, Inc.
Miscellaneous
Grant: $12,500
Michele’s Haven provides job training, housing assistance, and mental health counseling to women re-entering society after incarceration. BWGC funds will be used to pay the salary of a part-time re-entry specialist.
Per Scholas, Inc.
Workforce Development
Grant: $25,000
https://perscholas.org/locations/baltimore/
Per Scholas Baltimore provides women with technology training and business contacts for IT careers that pay a living wage. The job placement rate within a year of graduation is 80%. The BWGC grant will fund free tuition and other support services.
Public Justice Center
Housing
Grant: $25,000
https://www.publicjustice.org/en/
Public Justice Center advocates for and provides free, same-day legal services to Baltimore’s most vulnerable renters at risk of losing their homes: households headed by single Black women. BWGC funds will help pay the salaries and benefits for attorneys and paralegals, and for know-your-rights materials for tenants.
Rebuilding Together Baltimore
Housing
Grant: $10,000
Rebuilding Together Baltimore repairs dilapidated houses owned mostly by elderly low-income women, allowing their occupants to age in place in safety and the neighborhood to maintain its occupancy rate. BWGC funds will be used to directly support home repair and program growth.
St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center
Housing
Grant: $25,000
St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center provides home-sharing programs, counseling, and legal services to young homeless adults. Women homeowners open their homes to young homeless adults, mostly young women with a history of family trauma. BWGC funds will be used to pay stipends to the hosts, and basic necessities for the clients.
Student Support Network
Food and Hunger Services
Grant: $25,000
https://studentsupportnetwork.org/
Student Support Network provides students in need with food, clothing, school supplies, backpacks, hygiene, and personal care products, such as menstrual supplies, deodorant, and shampoo, so that students can focus on learning. BWGC funds will be used to purchase supplies and to support staff.
Tahirih Justice Center
Domestic/Sexual Violence
Grant: $25,000
Tahirih Justice Center serves immigrant girls and women who are survivors of sexual abuse, domestic and dating violence, kidnapping, forced marriages, and sexual and labor trafficking. It provides free legal and social services, emergency shelter, food, and healthcare. Circle funds will be used to pay the salary of one part-time re-entry specialist.
Teachers' Democracy Project
Education
Grant: $12,500
Teachers’ Democracy Project teaches positive discipline in the public schools to teachers and parents, focusing on listening skills and setting healthy boundaries as alternatives to corporal punishment that replicates the cycle of violence. BWGC funds will go directly to supporting the program.
The Family Tree, Inc.
Workforce Development
Grant: $25,000
The Family Tree trains women to become licensed family child care providers and business owners, and supports working mothers through community education and representation on state and local child welfare councils. BWGC funding will support its Growing Opportunities for Family Child Care program.
Women's Housing Coalition
Housing
Grant: $25,000
https://www.womenshousing.org/
Women’s Housing Coalition provides affordable housing, stability, and economic opportunity to low-income families and individuals with disabilities through case management, transportation, referrals, and counseling. BWGC funds will support general operations and program growth.
Women's Law Center of Maryland
Legal Services
Grant: $25,000
Women’s Law Center of Maryland advocates for the physical safety, economic security, and autonomy of survivors of intimate partner violence and provides free legal services to women and their families in need, including protective orders, family law, and immigration status independent of abusers. Circle funds will support free services to eligible women.