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2022 Grantees
BCYF awarded $150,000 three-year grants to up to 35 eligible community accountable organizations. The grants will be payable in nine installments over three years. Operating on a multi-year grant cycle allows BCYF to invest in building the capacity of its grantees, which positions organizations for success beyond BCYF funding. In addition to financial support, organizations awarded a Grassroots Fund grant will receive rigorous technical assistance and capacity-building support to help them sustain and grow.
2022 Fund Recipients
35 Organizations Supporting Youth Across Baltimore
Check out this map to learn more about main office locations for Grassroots Fund grantees. Please note: Although some of the grantees host office locations outside of Baltimore, it is a requirement that all funding from Baltimore Children & Youth Fund supports programming for children and youth directly in the city.
Additional 2022 BCYF Grantees
We celebrate these organizations as they join our 2022 grant portfolio.
Aligned Grantmaking Fund
The Aligned Grantmaking Fund provides opportunities to create granting partnerships that leverage the impact of collaboration.
Grant Recipient
- Summer Funding Collaborative – Baltimore’s Promise
President’s Fund
The President’s Fund aligns with the BCYF mission, vision, and values and offers flexibility to address pressing issues at the discretion of the President.
Grant Recipients
Bridging the Gap During the Summer
The Summer Funding Collaborative consists of public, private, and non-profit funders. The mission of the SFC is to fund different types of summer programs to keep students engaged and reduce summer learning loss so that more youth can reach their full potential. While members of the Collaborative bring their own priorities to the table, they work together to make complementary funding decisions with the goal of fully funding as many high-quality summer programs as possible.
Baltimore’s Promise is the Administrative Backbone for the Collaborative and works on its behalf to make sure that the youth review process, summer grant making, data collection and analysis, grantee professional development, and summer provider network-building are implemented.
Collectively the SFC invested $5.3 million into 93 high-quality summer programs. BCYF committed $2 million and prioritized organizations serving older youth (ages 18-24) and/or led by Black, Brown, Indigenous, or Asian folks (or BIPOC-led).
The following 36 organizations and programs received funding from BCYF:
Grantee | Program Name |
| ¡Adelante Latina! | Summer College Boot Camp at Notre Dame |
| A Revolutionary Summer | A Revolutionary Summer 2022 |
| Afrikan Youth Alchemy (AYA) | Griot Works Youth Program |
| AZIZA PE&CE | F.A.M.E. (Fashion, Arts, Music, & Entertainment) |
| Baltimore Youth Arts | BYA Studio Apprentice Program |
| Banner Neighborhoods Community Corporation | Go Kids Go! Summer Camp |
| Beadly Speaking Jewelry LLC | Beadly Speaking Kidz |
| Brittany K. Booker Foundation Inc. | Watch Us Win! (Weekend Retreat for Girls) |
| CASA | Mayor’s Scholars Program / Summer Bridge Program at CASA |
| Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Maryland | Sutton Scholars High School Enrichment Program |
| Creative City Public Charter School Foundation, Inc. | Branching Out |
| Dance and BMore Programs | Voices of Carmen – Camp Carmen |
| Dent Education | Bet on Baltimore |
| DewMore Baltimore | Maya Baraka Writers Institute |
| Elev8 Baltimore | Elev8 Freedom School |
| Excellence & Ambition Inc. | E&A Summer Program |
| Holistic Life Foundation | Holistic Me |
| I’m Still Standing Community Corporation | Clothing Manufacturing Entrepreneurship Program |
| Islamic Leadership Institute of America | Young Adult Career Readiness & Empowerment (EmpoweReer) |
| Johns Hopkins University | Centro SOL -YouthWorks Extension/Community Summer Corps Program |
| Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center Inc | LTYC All Stars |
| Let’s Thrive Baltimore | Youth in Action |
| Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center, Inc. also known as Little Flowers | Generation Recharge After School Program (GRASP) |
| Mending Broken Wings, LLC | TOGETHER WE HEAL |
| Mentoring Mentors Inc | L.E.A.D.E.R.S Summer Learning Camp |
| MOMCares, a fiscally sponsored project of Fusion Partnerships, Inc. | MOMCares for Young Mothers |
| Moving History | Moving History Summer African American Dance and History Intensive |
| MTM Foundation, Inc. | MTM Sports Education |
| MTM Foundation, Inc. | Pathways to College and Entrepreneurship |
| PeacePlayers International | PeacePlayers Baltimore Summer Leadership Program |
| R.I.S.E Arts Center of Baltimore | Teen Arts Collective |
| St Veronica Roman Catholic Congregation Inc | St Veronica Summer Academy |
| The Board Room Chess | Chess and Life Skills Summer 2022 |
| The Marching Elite Foundation | Marching Elite Summer Program |
| The Nolita Project Inc 501(c) 3 | The Nolita Project: Youth Summer Discoveries |
| W.O.M.A.N.(Working Organizing Making A Nation) | Njia Ya Tayari Martial Arts/Anti-Bullying Academic and Cultural Enrichment Summer Camp |
