Neighborhoods

2009 Neighborhoods Path Grants

A community health festival parade

All 2009 Neighborhoods Path grants are listed below.

Banner Neighborhoods, Inc. - $15,000

NGP Umbrella Grant that enables Banner to make small, block-level grants for community projects.

Belair-Edison Neighborhoods, Inc. - $15,000

To continue marketing efforts for this Healthy Neighborhood, commercial revitalization work through the Main Streets program, and foreclosure prevention services.

Citizens Planning and Housing Association, Inc. - $25,000

To provide expert advice and assistance to applicants and grantees of BCF's Neighborhood Grants Program.

Civic Works, Inc. - $15,000

To hire three Americorps members to organize neighborhoods participating in the Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge, which aims to reduce residential energy use.

Community Law Center, Inc. - $7,500

To help CLC provide free legal assistance to neighborhood groups and nonprofits pursuing cleaning and greening projects in their communities.

Community Mediation Program, Inc. - $5,000

To help Baltimore City residents defuse and resolve conflicts peacefully by providing free mediation services to individuals, families, and communities in conflict.

Garwyn Oaks Northwest Housing Resource Center, Inc. - $12,500

To continue to provide citywide homeownership education and counseling, as well as Healthy Neighborhoods revitalization work in the Hanlon, Garwyn Oaks, and Howard Park communities.

Greater Mondawmin Coordinating Council, Inc. - $7,500

To continue developing the organization's board, improve its website and the neighborhood's sustainability and master plans, and support an office coordinator position to strengthen communications.

HARBEL Community Organization, Inc. - $15,000

NGP Umbrella Grant that enables HARBEL to make small, block-level grants for community projects.

Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. - $40,000

For ongoing support for Healthy Neighborhoods, currently working in 40 strong but undervalued Baltimore City neighborhoods to increase home values and forge strong connections among neighbors.

Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition, Inc. - $15,000

NGP Umbrella Grant that enables HEBCAC to make small, block-level grants for community projects.

Neighborhood Design Center, Inc. - $7,500

To strengthen the organization's volunteer base and expand the green building design and planning assistance it provides to local nonprofits and community development corporations.

Neighborhood Grants Program - $107,713

BCF’s Neighborhood Grants Program (NGP) provides funding to help resident-driven and -led community-based organizations in Baltimore City and Baltimore County complete neighborhood improvement projects. In 2009, NGP awarded $107,713 in grants to 24 community projects in neighborhoods across Baltimore City and County. See the full list of 2009 NGP grantees.

Neighborhoods of Greater Lauraville, Inc. - $10,000

To support community organizing by paying the stipend for a Neighborhood Fellow from the University of Maryland School of Social Work Community Outreach Services.

Parks & People Foundation - $7,500

To provide grants, advice, and assistance to neighborhoods pursuing greening projects through the Neighborhood Greening Grants Program.

Reservoir Hill Improvement Council, Inc. - $10,000

To retain the coordinator for the Greening Reservoir Hill project, which focuses on increasing the tree canopy, getting more residents recycling, and cleaning and greening this northwest Baltimore community.

Sustainability Energy Fund - $10,000

For the start-up of the Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge, which aims to reduce residential energy use by raising awareness, improving energy efficiency of homes, and stimulating demand for energy conservation services.

University of Maryland School of Social Work - $12,500

To support the Neighborhood Fellows Program, which recruits graduate students to work on neighborhood revitalization efforts in Healthy Neighborhoods and other communities.
Youngsters in Patterson Park get a workout in the neighborhood’s youth soccer league.
One Step Up scholars Sherrone Ricks and Jeane’ Baker celebrate with donors Jonnie-Kay McLean and Norman Morrison.
A Baltimore City student soaks up the sun at North Bay Adventure Camp.
Enjoying the lake at Druid Hill Park. Photo by Middleton Evans.
Dreams do come true: Our Playground at Stadium Place, rebuilt by determined volunteers and generous donors after the original was destroyed by arson. The work was supported by a fund at BCF. 

BCF’s efforts through the Diversity Path will work to rebuild Baltimore’s black middle class.

Baltimore’s vibrant arts and cultural scene boasts innovative projects like the Contemporary Museum’s Mobtown Modern Music Series, which combines classical instruments, jarring visual components and DJ-style electronics into informal performances of works by modern composers. Photo by Robert McIver Photography.
Cyclists atop Federal Hill take in views of the city skyline and bustling Inner Harbor. Photo by Middleton Evans.
Collecting butterflies in the field for a nature study.
In the spring of 2009, an army of dedicated volunteers worked to rebuild Our Playground at Stadium Place, which had been destroyed by arson in September 2008. Photo by Kristine Buls.
Enjoying one of the simple pleasures of summer at a neighborhood camp.
BCF’s Human Services Path emphasizes health, aging, and family economic security.
Neighbors team up to beautify and reclaim a vacant lot.
Most Middle Grades Partnership scholars qualify for the city’s competitive high schools.
Rapid and reliable public transportation for our region is a central goal of the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, a fund of BCF. Photo by P.A. Greene.
Children beat the heat in the waters of the Walter Sondheim Fountain at the Inner Harbor. Contributions to construct the memorial were collected through a special project fund at BCF. Photo by Will Kirk, courtesy of Homewood Photography.
Students at Great Kids Farm learn about local food production, from “seed to fork.”
Baltimore’s successful One Plus One recycling program has engaged residents in making the city cleaner and greener.
Baltimore City students and farm manager Greg Strella (far right) with the summer harvest at Great Kids Farm.
Students at Baltimore’s Friendship Academy of Engineering and Technology, one of many public charter schools helping to transform public education in our city. Photo by Stephen Jones, courtesy of Baltimore City Public Schools.
BCF’s Promoting Baltimore Path works to ensure that Baltimore continues to retain and attract citizens and businesses.
Experience-Corps Baltimore places older adult volunteers in struggling city elementary schools to serve as classroom aides, mentors, and tutors. Photograph by Michael Ciesielski, courtesy of Greater Homewood Community Corporation, Inc.

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