BCF believes that the Baltimore metropolitan area needs a rapid and reliable transit system and a network of walking and biking paths that together link diverse neighborhoods, job centers, and entertainment and tourist destinations. Transportation infrastructure is generally financed through a combination of local, state, and federal transportation funds. The primary need for private philanthropy is to fund the public education, organizing, and advocacy efforts that help leverage those public funds.

BCFs Transportation Path focuses grants on:

• Building public support of and mobilizing key constituencies to advocate for better transit options;
• Improving the quality of our public transit system and MARC commuter rail service.

BCF invites all who share our vision for this region to join us and Invest in Baltimore. We believe that no one path leads to our common goal, but that by investing strategically in many paths we can create a Baltimore with a growing economy in which all have the opportunity to thrive. BCFs grantmaking is built around these nine paths, one of which is Transportation.