Past Grantees
2023 Grantees
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Services to Seniors
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Grant covered general costs of transportation including drivers salaries, gas, insurance, and vehicle maintenance.
Mission: Empowering older adults in Baltimore City to age in place independently with access to transportation and social services, AIM has been serving Baltimore's older adults since 1973.
Website: https://www.actioninmaturity.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Literacy / Education
Grant Amount: $17,000
Project Description: Grant covered increases in general operating needs due to COVID and inflation.
Mission: To help Latina girls overcome the socio-cultural, economic and academic barriers they face in pursuing a college career.
Website: https://adelantelatinabaltimore.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Housing
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Grant covered general operations of the emergency shelter & supportive services programming.
Mission: To provide women and their children experiencing homelessness with a safe place to rest, recover, and heal. We then partner with them to devise and implement a path to long-term safety, stability, and independence in society.
Website: https://www.baltimoreoutreach.org/
Program: BSO OrchKids FY23 General Operating Funds
Category Name: Literacy / Education
Grant Amount: $22,500
Project Description: Grant covered continued work of OrchKids in schools through Baltimore City.
Mission: To perform the highest quality symphonic music of all eras that nurtures the human spirit. We are committed to engaging, inspiring, educating, and serving our audiences in meaningful and intentional ways, and to enhancing Maryland as a center of cultural vitality and importance.
Website: https://www.bsomusic.org/
Program: General Operating
Category Name: Grants Learning Lab
Grant Amount: $10,000
Project Description: Grant funds were used for Coach G general operating budget.
Mission: To engage youth in Education, Leadership, and Mentoring.
Website: https://www.coachgacademyinc.org/
Program: Applicant Award
Category Name: Grants Learning Lab
Grant Amount: $250
Project Description: Application Award
Mission: To provide avenues of successful communication in business and scholastic through exclusive, empathetic, and effective consulting and training.
Website: https://dijahstraining.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Case Management / Referral
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Grant covered general operating support for “Roadmap to Success” Program.
Mission: Supports all women, and serves young women ages 18-25, regardless of race, class, and background.
Website: https://www.herresiliency.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Food and Hunger Services
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Grant covered salary of a full-time kitchen staff member to oversee the four Baltimore City community food programs.
Mission: Empowers kids to cultivate healthy, successful futures for themselves and their families through food literacy, culinary competence, curiosity, and creativity.
Website: https://beachefforaday.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Grants Learning Lab
Grant Amount: $10,000
Project Description: Meeting ladies where they are, we provide supportive services to stabilize and empower their lives.
Mission: Empowers kids to cultivate healthy, successful futures for themselves and their families through food literacy, culinary competence, curiosity, and creativity.
Website: https://ledladies.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Food and Hunger Services
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Expanding of services to women and their families and establishing new programmatic personalized case management system.
Mission: Provides the homeless and poor of Baltimore City with the assistance and support to move towards independence and stability.
Website: https://mannahouseinc.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Housing
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Continue operations of the Marian House Transitional Supportive Housing Program.
Mission: A holistic, healing community for women and their children who are in need of housing and rehabilitative services.
Website: https://www.marianhouse.org/
Program: Free medical and dental care for women in Baltimore County
Category Name: Health Services
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: For clinic staff and to purchase medications and medical/dental supplies.
Mission: To restore dignity, “Healing through Love,” by providing free healthcare.
Website: https://www.amissionofmercy.org/
Program: Application Award
Category Name: Grants Learning Lab
Grant Amount: $250
Project Description: Application Award
Mission: To fulfill the Islamic principle of providing services and resources to those in need.
Program: NSNS Youth & Adult Reentry Program
Category Name: Mentoring
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Re-entry services to an additional 40 women who are currently incarcerated and awaiting imminent release.
Mission: To remove all obstacles and excuses from returning to prison. Delivering readily available resources to change the justifications that leads to using illegal “street” alternatives.
Website: https://nostrugglenosuccess.org/
Program: Per Scholas Baltimore IT Job Training Program
Category Name: Workforce Development
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Grant supported at least 65 women in the tuition-free IT job training program.
Mission: Empower learners with rigorous training for tech careers, and connect skilled talent to leading businesses.
Program: Sexual and Reproductive Health Peer Education Program
Category Name: Other
Grant Amount: $24,998
Project Description: Grant funds support staffing and program costs for the Sexual and Reproductive
Mission: Works to protect and expand access to sexual and reproductive health care and education, and provides support to its member affiliates.
Program: Reading Partners Baltimore: One-on-one Literacy Tutoring for Elementary-aged Students
Category Name: Literacy / Education
Grant Amount: $20,000
Project Description: Grant supported the stewardship of RPB's active volunteer community.
Mission: To help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results.
Website: https://readingpartners.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Domestic / Sexual Violence
Grant Amount: $22,500
Project Description: Grant covered salary of an additional staff member.
Mission: To build community while supporting the growth, healing, and empowerment of sex trafficking survivors.
Program: Healing Ourselves through Peer Empowerment (HOPE) Project
Category Name: Health Services
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Support the HOPE Program that works with women who have had perinatal or infant loss.
Mission: Provides trauma-informed care and addresses grief as a public health service. We believe all children, adults, and families suffering the loss or death of a loved one should have support and a safe place to heal and recover.
Website: https://robertashouse.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Services to Seniors
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Grant covered staff salaries and other operational costs.
Mission: Helps older adults meet the challenge of living self-sufficiently with dignity and respect.
Website: https://www.smocbaltimore.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Domestic / Sexual Violence
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Grant supported the costs to negotiate the legal system and clients' immediate needs.
Website: https://www.tahirih.org/
Program: General Operating
Category Name: Grants Learning Lab
Grant Amount: $4,500
Project Description: Grant expanded the program into a new location in Pig Town to serve more young people.
Mission: Forges a path to wealth building for Baltimore City’s Black and Brown adults and youth through year-round employment opportunities, workforce development classes, financial literacy programs, and an extended support network that breaks the cycle of generational poverty and mass incarceration.
Program: Judicare and Employment Law Hotline Legal Coordinator
Category Name: Legal Services
Grant Amount: $19,650
Project Description: Grant supported the salary of a new legal coordinator position to be filled by an attorney.
Mission: To ensure the physical safety, economic security, and autonomy of women throughout the State. We work toward this goal by providing direct legal representation, information and referral services, and legislative advocacy.
Website: http://www.wlcmd.org/
2022 Grantees
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Literacy/Education
Grant Amount: $20,000
Project Description: Grant supported the general operating funds.
Mission: The Community School is an academic and mentoring program that has worked with hundreds of students since its founding, helping them stabilize their lives, advance their education, and go on to college.
Website: https://tcshighschool.org/
Program: General Operating Funds
Category Name: Mentoring
Grant Amount: $25,000
Project Description: Grant supported the after-school program, pathway planning, community service outings and Thread Family activities.
Mission: Thread harnesses the power of relationships to create a new social fabric of diverse individuals deeply engaged with young people facing the most significant opportunity and achievement gaps. Our community is committed to ending social isolation and building a more equitable culture in which everyone thrives.
Website: https://www.thread.org/