Youth

2009 Youth Path Grants

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All 2009 Youth Path grants are listed below.

Advocates for Children and Youth, Inc.  - $5,000

To help secure federal "Race to the Top" funding for Maryland, strengthen principal leadership in Baltimore City schools, and increase early interventions for low-performing students.

Baltimore City Public Schools  - $6,000

To create Tiny Tot Learning Bags for distribution to 77 families with infants and toddlers who have learning delays. Each bag contains materials suitable for the particular child, and parents and caregivers are taught how to use them to stimulate their children's learning at home.

Baltimore Montessori, Inc. - $6,000

To help operate the Children's House, the program for preschoolers and kindergarteners at the newly created Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School, now in its second year.

Baltimore Urban Debate League, Inc.  - $10,000

To enable 500 Baltimore City public middle school students to participate in BUDL’s after-school debate program.

Banner Neighborhoods Community Corporation - $10,000

To encourage young people in Southeast and East Baltimore to learn new skills, have fun, and become good community citizens through Banner's year-round neighborhood athletics, academic support, and arts activities.

Building Science Technology and Education Partnerships, Inc.  - $10,000

To fund seminars, internships, and intensive college counseling and support for Baltimore public high school students interested in pursuing careers in science and technology.

Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. - $10,000

To support the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program, an in-home, early childhood education program for families with children in Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester, Druid Heights, and Harlem Park communities.

Episcopal Community Services of Maryland, Inc. - $6,000

To support an assistant teacher position at the Ark Preschool, which provides daycare for homeless preschool children.

The Maryland Mentoring Partnership - $10,000

To help fund the Maryland State Mentoring Resource Center, which recruits, trains, and supports high quality mentors for Baltimore area youth.

Middle Grades Partnership - $10,00

To support the growth and general operations of this summer and after-school learning program for academically promising Baltimore City middle school students.

MPT Foundation, Inc. - $7,082

For Raising Readers Baltimore, online training for 100 childcare providers in developing specific early literacy skills in the children for whom they provide care.

My Sister's Circle, Inc. - $15,000

To maintain and enhance this mentorship program serving girls from disadvantaged neighborhoods through middle school, high school, and into college.

Parks & People Foundation - $15,000

For BRANCHES (Building Resources and Nurturing Community Health and Environmental Stewardship), a workforce training and educational enrichment program for youth ages 14-20 in park forestry management and maintenance.

Ready At Five Partnership - $10,000

To continue the Learning Laboratory at Patterson Park Charter School, a model that provides professional development for early educators and parent-child learning opportunities.

Sandi's Learning Center, Inc. - $10,000

To help pay for preschool programming at the only accredited daycare and nursery school in the West Baltimore neighborhoods in zip code 21216.

The Stadium School Youth Dreamers, Inc. - $10,000

To support the Youth Dreamers' Project Class and after-school program, which offers a homework club, health club, modeling club, art classes, and a book buddy program to 80 youth in grades 1-8.

Wide Angle Youth Media, Inc. - $10,000

To help fund Baltimore Speaks Out!, an after-school program that teaches youth ages 11-15 skills in introductory video making, critical thinking, teambuilding, and public speaking as they create videos about community issues.

Youth As Resources - $15,000

To support the annual grantmaking pool and operating expenses of this youth-led grantmaking, community problem-solving, and leadership development project housed at BCF.

Explore this section:

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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