| Adoptions Together |
$25,000 |
| to support their outreach, education and counseling services for expectant parents facing an unplanned pregnancy |
|
| Arundel Habitat for Humanity |
$50,000 |
| for the acquisition of property and land in the Brooklyn/Curtis Bay sections of Baltimore City to build or renovate 12 houses for Habitat for Humanity during FY 2006 |
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| Baltimore Adapted Recreation & Sports |
$35,000 |
| to pay a part time Executive Director for one year for this organization which provides recreation and sports activity for disabled individuals |
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| Baltimore American Indian Center |
$37,000 |
| to help fund a part time position for an Executive Director |
|
| Baltimore Child Abuse Center |
$43,000 |
| to replace seven heat pumps and compressor systems that are functioning poorly and are far beyond their useful life span |
|
| Boys & Girls Club of Annapolis & AA County |
$65,000 |
| to fund the salary and benefits of a full time development director to assist in raising the necessary funds to sustain their services for the new Club at Bates and for their 4 branches and 2 outreach sites |
|
| CASA of Baltimore City |
$30,000 |
| to support two part time salaries and expenses associated with volunteer outreach and supersivion |
|
| CASA of Baltimore County |
$30,000 |
| to support the volunteers' advocacy efforts on behalf of children involved in abuse and neglect proceedings in juvenile court |
|
| Center for Fathers, Families and Workforce Development |
$50,000 |
| to support a year-long implementation of its Men's Services Program, which seeks to improve skills, competencies and self-esteem of low income fathers |
|
| Chesapeake Center for Youth Development |
$25,000 |
| to help support a basic employment assistance service available to youth in the Brooklyn Curtis Bay area |
|
| Civic Works |
$60,200 |
| to purchase two new vehicles, a 12 passenger van and a crew cab pickup truck to transport team members, tools and supplies to work sites throughout Baltimore City |
|
| Cumberland YMCA |
$25,000 |
| towards operational expenses of the YMCA Fit and Healthy Families Program, which serves a poor area in Maryland, and will help obese children, who are in danger of developing serious health problems |
|
| Downtown Sailing Center |
$30,000 |
| to assist with the salary of a new Director of Education and Programs, that will allow them to continue to grow their outreach efforts for inner City youth to acquire life skills taught by the sailing experience, including becoming mentors for younger children |
|
| Easter Seals Adult Day Services |
$20,000 |
| to purchase new and sturdy disability age-appropriate furniture, accessories and equipment to accommodate the expanded program space and increased enrollment to help senior and adults with disabilities avoid institutional care |
|
| Family & Children's Services of Central Maryland |
$35,000 |
| for operational support for counseling and outreach services for families with children in the FCS' North Laurel/Savage are of Howard County which has the highest percentage of female-headed multi-family households |
|
| Frederick Community Action Agency |
$35,000 |
| to complete the renovation of a 5,700 square foot facility to serve as a food bank |
|
| Holy Nativity/St. John's Development Corp. |
$45,000 |
| to install a commercial kitchen at the new Pimlico Road Arts and Community Center |
|
| House of Ruth |
$35,000 |
| to support the Maryland's Teen Initiative against Domestic Violence Program for 2007 |
|
| Junior League of Baltimore |
$50,000 |
| for the purchase and installation of a telephone and network system, technology for a multi-purpose training room, audiovisual system, LCD projector, laptop, viewing screen and electronic marquee |
|
| Marian House |
$42,000 |
| to cover the first year salary and benefits for a new case manager who will work exclusively with the Serenity Place residents |
|
| My Brother's Keeper |
$45,308 |
| towards the salary and benefits of a full time social worker |
|
| Notre Dame Mission Volunteers |
$36,000 |
| to help support ten AmeriCorp Volunteers |
|
| Paul's Place, Inc. |
$25,000 |
| to expand their adult basic literacy and computer literacy program |
|
| People Encouraging People |
$25,000 |
| to support a new case manager position for young adults |
|
| Southeast Youth Academy |
$25,000 |
| for general operating support of their after-school program |
|
| St. Francis Neighborhood Center |
$30,000 |
| towards a portion of their renovations which includes repairs to the building structure and exterior |
|
| Volunteers for Medical Engineering |
$25,000 |
| to increase the hours of its Executive Director to a full time position beginning in January 2007 |
|
| Woodbourne Foundation |
$25,000 |
| towards general operating expenses due to shortfalls in State funding in order to continue to serve their clients |
|
| Allegany Health Right, Inc. |
$30,000 |
| towards a Case Manager's salary for the ongoing project of linking low income individuals with health care services |
|
| Johns Hopkins School of Nursing |
$35,000 |
| to fund a part time, Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner at the Rutland Health Clinic for 12 hours per week for one year for the community outreach projects |
|
| Mercy Health Services |
$39,408 |
| to purchase a Giraffe OmniBed for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit |
|
| Mission of Mercy |
$35,000 |
| to cover the medical dental staff salary and associated equipment |
|
| PACT (Parents and Children Together) |
$50,000 |
| to cover the one-year salary and benefits for their new Development Director to help infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities |
|
| Pro Bono Counseling Project |
$25,000 |
| to help launch a new program called "Families Surviving Cancer Together", which will provide professional personnel to give free mental health care services to adults who are primary caregivers for children with cancer |
|
| Project PLASE, Inc. |
$37,000 |
| towards in-house nursing services |
|
| Shepherd's Clinic |
$37,000 |
| to replace the roof on their recently purchased building |
|
| Stella Maris |
$37,000 |
| to be used for health care related expenses for the terminally ill who struggle to pay for that health care |
|
| Therapeutic & Recreational Riding Center |
$20,000 |
| to install a sprinkler system, heaters and mirrors in a new indoor therapy riding arena |
|
| Greater Homewood Community Corp., Inc. |
$30,000 |
| to support their ongoing efforts to improve adult literacy in Baltimore City which continues to struggle with illiteracy and a poorly trained workforce |
|
| Hispanic Apostolate Immigration Legal Service |
$30,000 |
| for the purchase of 20 computers to accommodate their new computer lab |
|
| Irvine Nature Center |
$45,000 |
| for the construction of a green roof in their new complex at Caves Valley |
|
| Johns Hopkins University |
$60,000 |
| to launch a reading clinic in the former Seton High School Building to serve approximately 180 students, adult family members and reading specialists |
|
| Junior Achievement of Central Maryland |
$25,000 |
| to expand JA's Exchange City program to 647 4th and 5th grade students at 28 Catholic elementary schools within the Archdiocese of Baltimore |
|
| LINC (Learning Independence Through Computers) |
$35,000 |
| to fund 50% of the total salary and benefits for their first development director |
|
| Maryland Committee for Children |
$50,000 |
| to compete the $150,000 first phase of a pilot project that engages child care providers in recognizing recognition and response for four-year olds to be able to diagnose any learning disabilities |
|
| Mount Saint Joseph High School |
$79,000 |
| to purchase 52 new desktop workstations, to replace the current teacher computers located in each classroom, 6 LCD projectors, 4 tablet PC's and a wireless environment to be installed in the offices of the DePaul program (an educational program specifically designed for students with learning disabilities) |
|
| Saint Rose of Lima School |
$45,000 |
| to replace outdated computer lab equipment |
|
| SS Matthew & Thomas More |
$25,000 |
| to provide religious education services to a very diverse parish population by enhancing opportunities for people to learn and appreciate each other's culture through faith formation |
|
| St. Bernardine School |
$40,000 |
| for furniture and equipment upgrades for the science lab and the library |
|
| St. Frances Academy |
$37,000 |
| to cover the first year salary and benefits of a new faculty position which focuses primarily on supporting students with learning disabilities |
|
| St. Ignatius Loyola Academy |
$25,000 |
| to fund a reading specialist for their 70 middle school boys |
|
| St. Jerome's Head Start |
$25,000 |
| toward a summer program for 100 three and four year old children whose parents are working |
|
| Villa Maria Continuum |
$13,000 |
| towards the purchase of 17 Dell computers and 5 printers |
|
| Westminster Astronomical Society, Inc. |
$10,000 |
| towards the $74,000 cost of constructing a new observatory |
|
| Youth Enterprise Services, Inc. |
$45,000 |
| to fund an after-school tutorial program |
|
| Mgr. O'Dwyer Retreat House |
$50,000 |
| towards repairs of their swimming pool which is used during the summer by St. Vincent de Paul Society, Camp St. Vincent and Camp Glow |
|
| Our Lady of Fatima |
$38,372 |
| to replace their 53 year old boiler with a brand new boiler |
|
| Saint Ambrose Church |
$35,000 |
| to complete the renovation of their parish and community center |
|
| Seton Keough High School |
$50,000 |
| to help fund the pre-construction planning of a new Science & Technology Center |
|
| St. Francis of Assisi School |
$45,000 |
| towards repaving and relining the playground/parking lot and landscape the perimeter to be used by the students for science projects |
|
| The Villa |
$52,411 |
| to modernize the kitchen appliances (commercial oven and ice maker), upgrade nursing capability (bathing lift and scale, side-entry tub, 6 side rail beds) and replace dated furniture, (10 dressers, mirrors, nightstands), draperies and a big screen t.v., for this retirement home for the Sisters of Mercy |
|
| Subtotal of grants paid for 2006 |
$2,273,699 |
| Contemporary Arts, Inc. |
$1,000 |
| towards the Summer Activity Extraordinaire (SAX): music and Dance Program held at Loyola College for as-risk youth ages 4 - 17. Participants learn to play an instrument of their choice leading up to a final concert performance |
|
| Community Free Clinic |
$923 |
| towards the purchase of surgical instruments, and glucometers and test strips for diabetic patients |
|
| Dove Center |
$923 |
| to purchase a new sleep sofa for the shelter facilities living area to be used when all bedrooms are full |
|
| Everyman Theatre |
$1,000 |
| to cover the shortfall for fiscal year ending June 30, 2006 because of public funding cuts in their education program funding |
|
| Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County, Maryland |
$1,400 |
| for purchase of two (2) desktop computer packages towards development of a computer network to aid in the mission of building affordable housing in the Frederick County area |
|
| Impact Youth Training Center |
$1,500 |
| towards operating costs of the Friday Night Leadership Training Program which meets from September through May where middle and high school students learn to be effective leaders in their school and in the community |
|
| I Say No 2, Inc. |
$2,500 |
| for emergency food, clothing, shoes, personal hygiene supplies and bedding due to fire, smoke and water damage at this shelter for men with HIV/AIDS and who are in recovery from substance abuse |
|
| Loyola Blakefield |
$500 |
| in memory of Maryanne C. Knott - to be used towards any need other than a scholarship program |
|
| Oblate Sisters of Providence |
$1,000 |
| to purchase an updated computer with a 19 inch flat panel screen (to use large type) plus a fax/scanner/copier/printer to be used by the Office of Historical Reseach |
|
| St. Augustine School |
$1,000 |
| to purchase 30 new desks for the fourth grade students to replace the ones which were very old, non-adjustable, and at various heights making them uncomfortable and non-conductive to learning |
|
| St. Brigid Church |
$754 |
| to replace the furnace circulator on the heating system in the rectory and the parish center which delivers heat to the Head Start Program in the lower level |
|
| St. Frances Academy |
$500 |
| to purchase prizes, decorations and games for the 5th Annual Halloween party and Haunted House for over 1,000 children at SFA Community Center |
|
| St. Thomas Aquinas School |
$1,000 |
| to purchase much-needed supplemental reading materials for students in grades K-3 which includes computer software, teacher manuals, workbooks, reading charts and big books to aid in reading instruction for students |
|
| The Community School |
$2,500 |
| to humanely relocate a large colony of bats from the school attic and repair their damage including the removal |
|
| United Churches' Assistance Network (UCAN) |
$2,500 |
| for procuring and installing wireless equipment to create a computer network bridge from the building which houses UCAN to that of St. Joseph Parish (Texas) where the network infrastructure is located |
|
| Volunteers for Medical Engineering |
$1,000 |
| to match a leadership grant to expand and help jump-start a new marketing program |
|
| Total awards for 2006 |
$2,293,699 |