Youth Path Grants

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All 2010 Youth 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.

Other grantmaking programs continue to accept proposals; please visit the How to Apply page to determine whether your proposal might be a fit. 

Baltimore Academies Inc.  - $5,000

To support completion of the National Academy Foundation High School website, which also serves as a "living classroom" for the school's Academy of Information Technology students. 

Baltimore City Public Schools  - $9,000

To create Tiny Tot Learning Bags for distribution to 60 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.  - $10,000

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

Baltimore Urban Debate League Inc.  - $10,000

For BUDL's Summer Middle School Debate Institute, a 6-day summer camp for new and returning elementary and middle school debaters. 

Banner Neighborhood Corporation  - $7,500

To support year-round, out-of-school enrichment programs for at-risk Southeast Baltimore youth, including reading and art clubs, football and basketball leagues, and a summer youth employment project. 

Building Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc.  - $14,000

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.  - $9,000

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. 

The Maryland Mentoring Partnership  - $7,500

Training and technical assistance is a core function and a major asset for the mentoring movement. This grant will enable Maryland Mentoring Partnership to continue to provide resources, technical assistance and disseminate evaluation data and best practices to program partners through trainings, roundtables and one on one consultation. 

Middle Grades Partnership Fund at BCF  - $15,000

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

MPT Foundation Inc.  - $10,000

For Raising Readers Baltimore, online training for 80 childcare providers in developing specific early literacy skills in the children for whom they provide care. 

My Sister's Circle, Inc.  - $7,500

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

National Aquarium in Baltimore, Inc.  - $8,000

For Aquarium on Wheels, an after-school and summer learning program that provides education and job training experiences to underserved Baltimore-area high school students. 

Ready at Five Partnership  - $9,000

To provide professional development and curriculum instruction to early 40 educators serving the Patterson Park Public Charter School and St. Vincent de Paul Head Start. 

Safe and Sound Baltimore's Campaign for Children and Youth, Inc.  - $10,000

For the Ready by 21 Jobs Project, which helps young people successfully transition out of the foster care system by providing them with therapy, job training, paid internships, and advocacy. The grant will provide stipends for 10 youth who will participate as voting members of the project operations team. 

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

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

The Stadium School Youth Dreamers Inc.  - $5,000

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

Wide Angle Youth Media Inc.  - $5,000

For Baltimore Speaks Out!, a program in partnership with the Enoch Pratt Free Library that teaches introductory videomaking, teambuilding, public speaking, and other youth development skills to Baltimore City youth. 

Youth As Resources Fund  - $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. 
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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