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To Apply for a Grant
To learn more about BWGC's grants including eligibility, granting criteria, deadlines and a downloadable application, please click here. Read on to learn about the grants that BWGC has awarded.
Grants Awarded
By pooling their contributions, members of the Circle are able to leverage the impact of their charitable dollars. In its first granting cycle in 2002, the Circle made grants totaling $51,834 to ten non-profit organizations. In its second year, it awarded $100,720 in grants to ten non-profits. During the third granting cycle, the Circle gave $152,210 to thirteen non-profits. In 2005 the Circle gave $191,288 to nineteen non-profits. In 2006, the Circle gave $236,498 to nineteen non-profits. In its most recent cycle in 2007, the Circle granted $301,150 to twenty-two non-profits. Since its inception the Circle has awarded a total of $1,033,700 to ninety-three programs from seventy-seven different organizations. These grants will help women and their families, in the Baltimore area, achieve self-sufficiency.
Circle members are involved in all aspects of the decision making process associated with grants awarded by BWGC. Requests for proposals are mailed to non-profit organizations that have been identified by Circle members and others in December of each year. Teams of Circle members review the grant proposals received and conduct site visits to those organizations that have submitted particularly outstanding proposals. Team members report to the full Grants Committee on their recommendations for funding. The Grants Committee reaches consensus on funding recommendations and presents them to the BWGC membership at the annual May meeting for review and approval. Grants made since BWGC’s inception are listed below.
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2008 Grantees
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The 19 organizations listed here received a total of $305,663.
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Organization
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Amount/Program
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| Community Mediation Program |
$10,375
For a mediation and conflict resolution program for residents of The House of Ruth, a Baltimore City shelter for battered women and their children. |
| Episcopal Community Services of Maryland |
$15,000
Support for the Ark School, the only state-accredited preschool serving homeless children in Baltimore City. |
| Hampden Family Center |
$20,000
Funds a part-time case manager to serve low-income single women, children, and elderly women on fixed incomes |
| INNterim Housing Corporation |
$18,504
Funds “Learning to Be Self Sufficient” workshops for homeless women in Baltimore County, which address topics such as time and household management, life skills, job retention, budgeting, and employment resources. |
| Jewish Family Services |
$3,360
Supports two therapy groups for women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. |
| Kids on the Hill |
$20,000
Trains a group of teenagers to conduct peer education and outreach in Baltimore City around sexual and reproductive health issues. |
| Living Classrooms Foundation |
$14,400
Funds a part-time mentorship coordinator for the Girls’ Empowerment Mission (GEM), a program that serves at-risk, economically disadvantaged high school girls. |
| Mercy Health Services |
$18,024
Supports the SHINE program at Catherine’s Hearth, a Baltimore City support center for homeless families. SHINE, offered to adults in transitional and emergency housing, targets parenting and leadership skills, communication, adult education, self-esteem and confidence building, and artistic expression. |
| Mission of Mercy |
$20,000
Provides free health and dental care in Baltimore County via a mobile medical clinic. |
| Mother Seton Academy |
$15,000
To strengthen the Graduate Support Program, which provides academic and financial assistance to MSA graduates during high school and the college application process. |
| My Sister’s Circle |
$20,000
To hire a part-time college counselor for this mentorship program serving girls from disadvantaged neighborhoods through middle school, high school, and into college. |
| NAMI-Metro Baltimore |
$11,000
Funds two courses of Peer-to-Peer, a ten-week support program for mental health clients interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery. |
| The Power/Excel Foundation |
$20,000
To help prepare incarcerated women for reentry into their communities by teaching conflict resolution and financial skills, facilitating career planning and development, and providing support and reinforcement to help them stay in jobs.
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| The Pro Bono Counseling Project |
$15,000
To reinstitute Parenting Alone: Helping Women to Build Healthy Families, a mental health counseling program that provides free counseling referral services and transportation to help low-income women and their families. |
| Ready by Five Partnership |
$15,000
To expand the Learning Laboratory program to Baltimore County in order to improve young children’s school readiness and promote parenting skills. |
| St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center |
$15,000
For the “hardship fund” of the Rental Services Supportive Housing Program. The fund assists low-income residents in St. Ambrose housing with items such as beds, cleaning supplies, and air conditioners. |
| St. Frances Academy |
$20,000
Tuition assistance for Baltimore City girls of limited means. |
| Susanna Wesley House |
$15,000
To support an increased organizational capacity as the Susanna Wesley House expands to serve more homeless women and their children in Baltimore City. |
| YMCA of Central Maryland |
$20,000
To support the Druid Hill Transitional Housing Project, which integrates transitional housing with substance abuse counseling, permanent housing support, life skills and job readiness training, healthcare services, and early childhood education programs. |
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2007 Grantees
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| Organization |
Amount/Program |
| Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma |
($15,000) - To provide an additional case manager. |
| Agape' House, Inc. |
($15,000) - Emergency shelter & transitional housing program, plus wrap-around services, for women who are employed and/or in an educational program or who demonstrate a desire to reach that status, to help them regain self-sufficiency. |
| Alternative Directions, Inc. |
($15,000) - Provided wrap around support services to women who are leaving prison on parole. Services include drug treatment, parenting classes, counseling. (Continuation of existing program). |
| Alzheimer's Association |
($8,000) - New project to support families of young onset dementia patients. Training caregivers, education for early-stage patients, support services for families. |
| Baltimore City Healthy Start, Inc. |
($10,400) - Bus signs to promote HIV Awareness. |
| Baltimore Outreach Services |
($15,000) - Conduct cooking classes and job placement for women. |
| Caroline Center |
($15,000) - Staff and support for job training, internships, job placement and retention, focusing on culinary arts. |
| Center for Addiction and Pregnancy |
($14,750) - To provide GED training for recovering pregnant and post-partum women. |
| CollegeBound Foundation |
($15,000) - Place College Access Program Specialist at Western High School. |
| Dayspring Village Children's Program |
($15,000) - Training and job placement. |
| Girl Scouts of Central Maryland |
($15,000) - Ongoing mentoring and training (in life skills, social skills, parenting, community experiences, etc) for incarcerated mothers and their daughters. |
| Learning, Inc. |
($15,000) - Enhancement of a current program to provide essential life skills and peer support programs for middle/high school girls. Programs include House of Ruth counseling, Yoga and positive peer discussion groups. |
| Literacy Works |
($15,000) - To expand a family financial program to other city locations. |
| Maryland New Directions |
($12,000) - To provide comprehensive career counseling and support services to help young, single mothers who are moving into employment by giving pre-employment counseling and continued access to support and information. |
| MEDBANK of Maryland, Inc. |
($15,000) - To provide prescription medication to low income needy (67% women). |
| Newborn Holistic Ministries |
($15,000) - Transitional-recovery house for women overcoming addiction; 6-month residential program combines communal environment, life-skills training with highly structured recovery program. |
| People for Encouraging People |
($10,000) - Assist children whose mothers are mentally ill/incompetent in every day life. |
| Public Justice Center |
($15,000) - To fund increased staff support of PJC from volunteer, part-time and leadership development of the youth-led membership in becoming an effective voice for foster children. |
| Students Sharing Coalition |
($15,000) - After school program that helps create service projects that address community issues. |
| TurnAround, Inc. |
($15,000) - Outreach Coordinator (20 hrs/week) to help identify abused women and children, refer/provide support services, train staff at International Rescue Committee in awareness of signs of violence. |
| Wide Angle Youth Media |
($6,000) - To give girls confidence in their abilities and potential and introduce them to careers in media arts. |
| YWCA of Greater Baltimore |
($15,000) - A continuing project for a case manager to work with women residents to move homeless women to permanent housing. |
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2006 Grantees
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| Organization |
Amount / Purpose |
| Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity |
($15,000) - to teach financial literacy skills to families who become homeowners through Chesapeake's Habitat for Humanity home ownership program. |
| Community Colleges of Baltimore, Catonsnville Campus |
($12,000) - to provide tuition for training in allied health careers to 20 single parents. |
| Episcopal Community Services of Maryland |
($12,000) - for general operating support to conduct pre-school classes for homeless children. |
| Fusion Partnerships, Dance Girls of Baltimore |
($15,000) - to pay for a dance teacher and a yoga teacher to teach two classes at two middle schools. |
| House of Ruth |
($10,000) - to run an evening childcare program four nights a week. |
| Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing |
($7,500) - to offer excercise and health education programs for 120 senior citizens. |
| Kennedy Krieger South East Early Head Start |
($14,993) - to teach literacy skills and conduct family case management for recent Somalian immigrants. |
| The Light of the Truth Center |
($13,000) - to teach life skills to recovering addicts. |
| Living Classrooms Foundation |
($10,000) - for a mentoring program that teaches highschool girls to become independent and productive adults. |
| Mission of Mercy: Reisterstown Mobile Medical Clinic |
($15,000) - to provide free medical and dental care, as well as essential prescriptive medicines for the working poor. |
| My Sisters Circle |
($15,000) - to mentor low-income highschool students and develop their self-confidence to break out of the poverty they live in. |
| PACT Helping Children with Special Needs |
($11,760) - for salary support. |
| Paul's Place |
($5,000) - to expand a women's support group that encourages participants to become independent. |
| Project PLASE |
($15,000) - to purchase computer equipment and hire a trainer to teach basic computer skills, GED preparation and job readiness training. |
| Sisters Academy of Baltimore |
($15,000) - to instruct seventh grade students at this non-tuition school located in Southwest Baltimore. |
| St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore |
($15,000) - to support the expansion of the Adelante program, a comprehensive domestic violence prevention and intervention service for Baltimore's Latino commmunity. |
| University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation |
($10,300) - Project HOLA! through the University of Maryland School of Social Work |
| Washington Village Pigtown |
($14,945) - for youth opportunities |
| Women's Housing Coalition |
($10,000) - to purchase computers, provide drug testing, and offer a family enrichment program for formerly homeless women and their children. |
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2005 Grantees
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| Organization |
Amount/Purpose |
| Advocates for Children and Youth |
($10,000) - to help create the Self Sufficiency Standard for Maryland for dissemination |
| Baltimore County Department of Social Services |
($10,000) - to provide child care for applicants enrolled in job readiness classes |
| Baltimore Outreach Services |
($15,000) - to support a pilot program for culinary training |
| Caroline Center |
($12,000) - to help pay for a coordinator's position for the Health Career Training program |
| Chrysalis House |
($5,088) - to conduct retreats for women in drug treatment |
| Fusion Partnerships |
($15,000) - to provide general services to formerly incarcerated women |
| INNterim Housing Corporation |
($12,000) - to teach life skills for homeless women |
| Jones Falls Community Corporation |
($8,000) - to provide family support for women in drug treatment programs |
| Kids on the Hill |
($12,000) - to help pay for a coordinator's position in the mentor program |
| Learning, Inc. |
($14,000) - to support a social worker and conduct Violence against Women classes |
| Mother Seton Academy |
($7,000) - to support programs for at-risk youth |
| National Women's Prison Project |
($10,000) - to give parenting support for incarcerated women |
| St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center |
($12,000) - to support a homesharing program |
| St. Francis Academy |
($5,000) - to give counseling services for grandmother-caregivers |
| St. Jerome's Head Start |
($5,200) - to conduct parenting classes and support groups |
| The Enterprise Foundation |
($5,000) - to support the opening of a Community Resource Center at two schools |
| The Family Tree |
($5,000) - to pay for teenage pregnancy prevention programs |
| Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore |
($15,000) - to offer job training to low-income women |
| YANA |
($14,000) - to help fund the client emergency needs fund
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2004 Grantees
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| Organization |
Amount/Purpose |
| Alternative Directions |
($15,000) - to counsel women who have been released from prison |
| Baltimore Freedom Academy |
($4,320) - to support the Young Women's Leadership program, which mentors and engages 9th grade girls |
| Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central MD |
($15,000) - to mentor children whose parents are in prison |
| Bon Secours of MD Foundation |
($15,000) - to counsel abused women in a safe place |
| Center for Poverty Solutions |
($15,000) - to operate a food program that offers nutrition and parenting classes to low-income families |
| East Harbor Community Development Corp. |
($15,000) - to educate women on finances |
| Family and Children's Services of Central MD |
($10,000) - to extend counseling services to shelters |
| Girl Scouts of Central MD |
($4,200) - to provide transportation for incarcerated women and their daughters to attend Girls Scouts |
| International Rescue Committee |
($15,000) - to educate women refugees on how to start a small business |
| Julie Community Center |
($15,000) - to pay for parenting classes for at-risk mothers |
| My Sister's Place |
($10,000) - to teach parenting classes to homeless mothers |
| Samaritan Community |
($6,000) - to give emergency funds to women in transition |
| TurnAround, Inc. |
($12,690) - to conduct a domestic violence and sexual assault support group for abused women in prison |
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2003 Grantees
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| Organization |
Amount/Purpose |
| AIDS-Interfaith Residential Housing Inc. |
($5,000) - to provide cultural, recreational, and training for clients and families enrolled in the family enrichment program |
| CCBC Catonsville |
($6,300) - to support the New Opportunities Internship Program that gives academic, vocational and social services to low-income or low-skilled women |
Damascus and Herring Run
Career Centers, Associated
Catholic Charities |
($15,000) - to operate the Fork Lift Safety Program that conducts advanced training in forklift operations, thereby expanding job opportunities for trainees |
| Hampden Family Center |
($11,420) - to support a part-time case manager for the Family to Family Project |
| Maryland New Directions |
($10,000) - to offer career preparation training to female ex-offenders |
| My Sister’s Circle |
($13,000) - to pay operating costs for a mentor program |
| Newborn Holistic Ministries |
($15,000) - to help pay for in-house treatment and recovery programs at Martha’s Place located in the Sandtown/Winchester area |
| Open Doors Career Center, Inc |
($ 10,000) - to assist displaced women and single mothers in securing employment through the Women’s Employment Program |
| Paul’s Place, Inc. |
($5,000) - to expand and further develop the Women’s Support Center |
| YMCA of Central Maryland |
($10,000) - to pay for an after-school program focusing on education, social and emotional issues for girls at the Lombard Middle School |
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2002 Grantees
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| Organization |
Amount/Purpose |
| Caroline Center |
($5,834.00) - to provide books and an instructor for a geriatric nursing assistant training program |
| Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity |
($8,000) - to support the All Women's Build Program, which renovates a vacant row house with all women volunteers |
| Eden Jobs |
($5,000) - to provide a financial literacy class for women enrolled in Eden Jobs' $mart Money Savings Club, a money management and counseling program |
| Housing Authority of Baltimore City |
($5,000) - to support training in childcare and nursing home care for HABC residents |
| INNterim House |
($5,000) - to help pay for a case manager for this Baltimore County transitional housing program |
| Legal Aid Bureau |
($5,000) - to help elderly gain access to Medicaid waiver slots for geriatric or in-home care |
| Lighthouse, Inc. |
($4,000) - to provide three full-day retreats for girls aged 11-18 |
| Maryland Volunteer Lawyer Service |
($5,000) -for Project Money Wise, which helps area residents gain economic self-sufficiency through education and counseling |
| People's Homesteading Group |
($4,500) - to support counseling programs for new homeowners in home maintenance and repair, personal budgeting, and community involvement |
| Women's Housing Coalition |
($4,500) - to match contributions of low-income women into Individual Development Accounts (IDA's) |
Last updated: November 3, 2008
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