Grantees
Grantees
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Gary Ashbeck
2010
Using The Samaritan Women (TSW) as a base of operations, Ashbeck will create opportunities for food sustainability for residents in the Irvington, Yale Heights, and Beechfield communities. He will work with residents to start community gardens and establish a community gardening collective and a local community market and encourage residents to eat more healthfully.
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Jessica Turral
2010
Turral will administer Hand in Hand, an organization she founded to connect juvenile males with mental health, case management, and rehabilitation resources while awaiting trial as adults at the Baltimore City Detention Center and upon release into the community. The program will seek to lower the juvenile recidivism rate while empowering youth.
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Koli Tengella
2010
Tengella will engage youth, primarily in East Baltimore, in the development of a theater and filmmaking troupe to explore social justice issues, enrich academic studies and learn life skills. The cadre of youth performers will use poetry, dance and hip-hop in short 5 to 45 minute performances that will encourage positive behavior changes and improve academics.
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Meshelle Foreman Shields
2010
Foreman Shields will establish GoalDIGGERS: The Sankofa Project, which will encourage African-American girls, ages 14-18, to study their ancestry and heritage using technology, anthropology, and DNA testing. Girls will also participate in journaling and relevant cultural exchanges to learn about indigenous communal mores, bolster their identity and self-esteem and become more civically engaged citizens.
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Rebecca Coleman
2010
Coleman will launch the Baltimore Creditor Abuse Prevention Project to protect low-income residents who have been victims of creditor abuse, by providing training, assistance and co-counseling services to attorneys who pledge to take on the victims cases. The project will increase the number of attorneys representing Baltimore debtors and help consumers become more aware of their rights.
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Sarah Tooley
2010
Tooley will solidify 901 Arts, a community-based arts organization in Better Waverly, by improving its organizational infrastructure and expanding its programming. 901 Arts is dedicated to the development of youth leaders and is an integral part of the community s ongoing efforts to build a safer, stronger, and more vibrant neighborhood.
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Stephanie Murdock
2010
Murdock will launch Skateboarding for Success, which will provide a safe place for youth to skateboard while learning important independent living skills and gaining leadership experience. By partnering with local schools, the program will offer mentoring, beginner lessons, private lessons, park clean-ups, and the motivation and skills necessary for the youth to graduate from high school.
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Advocates for Children and Youth, Inc.
2009
A grant to engage in coalition-building, public education and advocacy efforts to support juvenile justice reform.
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Alternative Directions, Inc.
2009
A grant to conduct grassroots organizing and leadership development to engage formerly incarcerated people in criminal justice policy.
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Associated Black Charities
2009
A grant to create and administer a small grants fund for community-based nonprofit organizations that addresses the health and economic needs of the most vulnerable Baltimoreans.