Background
Grants from the Maryland Tough Baltimore Strong Key Bridge Fund were made to organizations providing direct relief and human services, small business recovery, community resilience, and remembrance of the Bridge’s collapse.
Direct Relief and Human Services
Anne Arundel County Community Action Agency - $20,000
$20,000 to support staff time related to the delivery of application assistance services related with the administration of the cash relief program implemented by the CASH Campaign of Maryland in support of workers facing economic disruption resulting from work stoppages at the Port of Baltimore. (Anne Arundel County)
Associated Catholic Charities - $1,016,000
$1,016,000* to establish a human services center in Dundalk providing workforce development, case management, and mental health support. Additional funds will be disbursed in year two of center operations.
CASH Campaign of Maryland - $4,458,663
$4,458,663 to provide direct cash assistance to port workers impacted by the collapse of the Key Bridge.
City of Refuge - $20,000
$20,000 to support staff time related to the delivery of application assistance services related with the administration of the cash relief program implemented by the CASH Campaign of Maryland in support of workers facing economic disruption resulting from work stoppages at the Port of Baltimore. (Brooklyn Area)
Community Assistance Network - $366,000
$366,000 to support a surge in their usual services, including food distribution and transportation services. The Community Assistance Network will also produce 2,925 care packages, each of which would include food supplies for covering three meals and snacks for seven days for a family of four.
Heaven on Earth NOW (HOEN) - $54,120
$54,120 to partner with St. Matthew United Methodist Church in Turner Station/Dundalk to supply and distribute 168 bags of nonperishable Good for You Groceries through the end of 2024, and to cover the transportation for host 140 client households from Turner Station/Dundalk to attend free shopping events in a Timonium warehouse full of new clothing, household supplies and gifts for the holiday/winter season.
Latino Economic Development Center - $158,657
$158,657 to support eviction and foreclosure diversion programs in Southeast Baltimore City and Baltimore County.
Leftover Love - $5,000
$5,000 to support additional volunteer mileage reimbursements through the end of the year as they distribute more food to Southeast Baltimore City food pantries, churches, and human services providers seeing increased demand following the collapse of the Key Bridge.
Pro-Bono Counseling - $178,507
$178,507 to facilitate additional intakes for connecting clients seeking mental health care to permanent low- and no-cost suppliers, additional staff hours to operate their WARMLine emergency counseling service, and new temporary roles to conduct bilingual community outreach.
Student Support Network - $111,000
$111, 000 to support the expansion of the “Rooms of Support” program in four East Baltimore county schools.
Small Business Recovery
Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation - $1,631,766
$537,166 to support Bridges to Business program and Glen Burnie place-based investment.
$1,094,600 to support administration and distribution of 24 grants to impacted small businesses in Anne Arundel County as part of the Small Business Direct Grant Program.
- One-third of the businesses are logistics businesses. The remaining two-thirds are largely retail/service businesses.
Baltimore Community Lending – $924,600
$100,000 to support programs that provide technical assistance to impacted small businesses.
$824,600 to support administration and distribution of 18 grants to impacted small businesses in Baltimore City as part of the Small Business Direct Grant Program.
- Among those awarded, more than one-third were logistics/transportation companies; approximately one-third were retail/service businesses; and one-fourth were manufacturing/production companies.
Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council - $360,000
$360,000* to support personnel positions that will facilitate Key Bridge-specific small business technical assistance.
Greater Baybrook Alliance - $105,000
$105,000 to support Baybrook Retail Improvement grant program.
Latino Economic Development Center – $1,200,000
$100,000 to support programs that provide technical assistance to impacted small businesses.
$1,100,000 to support administration and distribution of 25 grants to impacted small businesses in Baltimore County as part of the Small Business Direct Grant Program.
- Among those awarded, 80% of the businesses were retail/service. The remaining were logistics businesses.
Maryland New Directions - $348,707
$348,707* to support the launch of an Industry Advisory Council composed of businesses affected by the loss the Key Bridge.
United Way of Central Maryland - $50,000
$100,000 to support programs that provide technical assistance to impacted small businesses.
Community Resilience
Bowleys Quarters Volunteer Fire Rescue & Marine - $100,000
$100,000 to support the purchasing and repair of a marine rescue vessel.
Central Scholarship of Maryland - $575,000
$575,000 to support the creation of scholarships for apprenticeships in technical careers in infrastructure and construction around the Port of Baltimore.
Community College of Baltimore County - $1,000,000
$1,000,000 in support of CCBC’s welding training program and new Trades and Technology Building at CCBC-Dundalk to prepare the future workforce.
Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County - $439,072
$439,072 to fund community resilience needs specific to food relief, health, and workforce development.
Essex Elementary School - $10,294
$10,294 for social emotional learning support to address the longer term effects of the Key Bridge collapse on students.
Maryland Latinos Unidos - $128,890
$128,890 to support Rebuilding Trust: Post-Trauma Community Confidence initiative.
Neighborhood Companions, Inc. - $25,000
$25,000 to fund the hiring of a Program Manager for transportation and companion services for elderly residents in Turner Station, as well as to support the Second Sunday Suppers Initiative.
Sollers Point Technical High School - $133,660
$133,660 to support the expansion of local partnerships between trade school and businesses.
Remembrance & Memorialization
Baltimore Civic Fund - $1,200,000
$1,200,000 in honor of the tragedy and to provide continued and direct support to the families of the six victims and the two survivors.
Baltimore Museum of Industry - $570,155
$25,000 to support an oral history memorialization effort around the loss of the Key Bridge and efforts of first responders to limit loss of life on the night of the event, the experience of road workers more broadly, and the disruption of work at the Port of Baltimore. The primary expense for the program is compensation for bilingual community engagement and oral historian contractors who will engage with the broad range of impacted communities respectfully and sensitively and collect their stories.
$545,155 to support the creation of a permanent exhibition to memorialize the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Learn more.
Maryland Higher Education Commission - $1,065,918
$1,065,918 to provide scholarships, including educational, education-related and workforce development support, for the families of victims and survivors of the March 26, 2024 Key Bridge collapse.
