Neighborhoods Path Grants

A community health festival parade

All 2010 Neighborhoods Path grants are listed below.

During 2011, we are refining our priorities for strategic grantmaking. During this transition, we will not be accepting proposals for grants from the paths of Invest in Baltimore.

The Neighborhood Grants Program and other grantmaking programs continue to accept proposals; please visit the How to Apply page to determine whether your proposal might be a fit. 

Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, Inc. - $10,000

For the Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative (BNC), which works to create and promote economically diverse and revitalized neighborhoods, as well as to build a strong network of community development organizations across the city.

Banner Neighborhood Corporation - $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 the organization's neighborhood revitalization efforts through marketing and outreach, community organizing, housing counseling, and small business development work.

Citizens Planning and Housing Association - $25,000

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

Civic Works, Inc. - $7,500

For Project Lightbulb, which improves the energy efficiency of low- and moderate income households by installing energy-saving fixtures and educating homeowners on ways to reduce energy use.

Community Law Center, Inc. - $15,000

To provide free legal assistance to neighborhood groups and nonprofits and to help market the organization by supporting its website enhancement and a client brochure.

Community Mediation Program, Inc. - $5,000

A fundraising challenge grant to support the organization as it helps 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 support the organization's homeownership program, which offers pre- and post-purchase homeownership education and counseling, home improvement loans, community outreach and marketing, and block beautification programs to residents in the Howard Park, Hanlon, and Garwyn Oaks communities in Northwest Baltimore.

Harbel Community Organization, Inc. - $15,000

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

Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. at BCF - $15,000

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.

Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. at BCF - $60,000

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. The grant will also support a series of small environment-centered projects undertaken by school-community partnerhips in the Healthy Neighborhoods.

Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition Inc. - $5,000

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

Neighborhood Design Center, Inc. - $7,500

To help the GREENDC program recruit more volunteers, expand its "Green by Design" workshop offerings, and provide green design services to projects in low- and moderate-income communities.

Neighborhood Grants Program- $85,647

Small grants were awarded to 23 community-led projects in neighborhoods across Baltimore City and County. View the complete list of grantees

Parks & People Foundation for Baltimore Recreation & Parks - $12,500

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

Reservoir Hill Improvement Council, Inc. - $12,500

To continue implementing the neighborhood's Green Master Plan, which focuses on increasing the tree canopy, getting more residents recycling, and cleaning and greening this northwest Baltimore community.

Southeast Community Development Corporation - $1,000

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

Sustainability Energy Fund at BCF - $10,000

To expand the Baltimore Neighborhood Energy Challenge (BNEC), which launched in eight neighborhoods in 2009 to help reduce residential energy use.

University of Maryland School of Social Work - $10,000

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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