Program Name: Creating Possibilities from Probabilities for Baltimore’s Youth Award Amount: $200,000 Partner(s): Growing Griots Literacy Learning Program of the Griots Circle of Maryland, National Association of Black Storytellers, Discover ME/ Recover ME: Healing and Enrichment through the
Program Name: BAAMARTS Award Amount: $62,480 Project Description: BAAMARTS is an Out-of-School-Time (OST) high school arts program serving 75 youth, grades 9-12, at Patterson High School in Baltimore’s Hopkins Bayview neighborhood. Patterson has (77%) low-income students and a state-high
Program Name: Free for All at the Rec Award Amount: $20,000 Project Description: Free for All Baltimore will provide for the play of children and young people in northeast Baltimore who want and need a place to be. The initiative will create free, open and authorized youth-led spaces and
Program Name: Beadly Speaking Jewelry Program Award Amount: $9,000 Project Description: The Beadly Speaking Jewelry Making Program will address issues facing our community from a unique perspective. There will be a topic or question that will be related to the jewelry-making activity of the
Program Name: AZIZA PE&CE Award Amount: $200,000 Partner(s): IDEAL Project Description: ILLUMINATE is a collaboration between AZIZA/PE&CE, an award winning fiscally sponsored organization committed to marginalized youth (specifically young women and LGBTQ+ youth), and IDEAL, a national
Program Name: Let’s Invest in Neighborhood Kids (LINK) Award Amount: $237,000 Partner(s): Art With a Heart, Baltimore Green Map, Code in the Schools, FutureMakers, SABES, Single Carrot Theatre, and Stocks in the Future Project Description: The Let’s Invest in Neighborhood Kids
Program Name: Baltimore Clayworks; HandBuilding, Resilience, and Transformation Award Amount: $157,401.33 Partner(s): Walter P Carter Recreation Center, Evening Reporting Center of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, The House of Ruth, The Arc Project Description: Baltimore Clayworks
Program Name: The Next Generation Youth Advisory Council Award Amount: $29,642 Partner(s): The Y of Central Maryland Project Description: The proposed Next Generation Youth Advisory Council will be a youth-driven leadership group serving to increase and enrich communication and collaboration
Program Name: Sista SoulQuest Award Amount: $85,748.25 Project Description: Sista SoulQuest is a culturally informed, inter-generational sister circle program intended to provide safe space for girls of color. The organization holds space to cultivate intergenerational bonds, develop social
Program Name: Youth Organizing Leadership Academy Award Amount: $82,375 Project Description: The Youth Organizing Leadership Academy is a six-month program for youth 16-24. The purpose is to provide basic community organizing skills, building from participants’ own lived experience, to
