Baltimore Collaborative Grants $4.2 Million to Summer Programs

The Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative (SFC) is proud to announce the awarding of more than $4 million in grants across 70 high-quality summer programs for children and youth living in families with low incomes in Baltimore City.

These grants help fund summer programs that provide academic support to reduce summer learning loss, connect youth to valuable work experiences, and engage young people in enrichment activities that allow them to pursue interests, discover talents, and develop skills.

The SFC’s grant process includes a community review of applicants. This year, nearly 150 youth 14-24 and caregivers to children 13 and under categorized applications into funding priority levels, from highly recommended to not recommended. Another 36 community members facilitated the review sessions.
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This community review is vital for helping SFC funders align their spending with high-impact programming that meets the needs of our young people.

SFC funders relied on community review results for decision-making or incorporated the scores and feedback into an existing decision-making process.

The SFC’s funding members include some of Baltimore’s largest public, private, and nonprofit institutions: The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore Children and Youth Fund, BGE, the Blanket Fort Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Constellation, Family League of Baltimore, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, The Richman Foundation, and the West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation. Baltimore’s Promise acts as the collaborative’s administrative backbone.
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While each funder has its own priorities for grantmaking, ranging from literacy and STEM to youth employment and social-emotional wellness, they work collaboratively to make complementary funding decisions to support a diverse set of summer programs, as evidenced by this year’s recipients:

• Access Art | Youthlight Summer Arts, STEM, Reading Program 2024
• Active Achievers (formerly Inheritance) | Active Achievers Summer Camp
• Art with a Heart | HeARTworks
• Arts for Learning Maryland (formerly Young Audiences of Maryland) | Summer Arts for Learning Academy (SALA)
• AZIZA PE&CE | F.A.M.E. (Fashion, Arts, Music & Entertainment)
• B-360 Baltimore | Sound of Summer
• Backyard Basecamp | Fox & Heron
• Ballet After Dark | BAD Camp
• Black Girls Cook | BGC Summer of Food 2024
• Bmore Empowered | Girls Empowerment Summer Camp (4-8th Grade)
• Bmore Empowered | Girls Empowerment Summer Camp (9-12th Grade))
• Building Blocks Services | Entrepreneurship 10.0: Turn Your Hobby or Side Hustle Into a Business
• BYKE Collective | Rise Up Ride Out 24
• Camp Puh'tok for Boys and Girls | Summer Youth Leaders Workforce Development Program
• CASA | Mayor's Scholars Program / Summer Bridge Program
• Catherine's Family and Youth Services | CFYS Summer Enrichment and Leadership Development Program
• Center for Technology Access and Training (CETAT) | Create Initiative
• Civic Works | Baltimore Conservation Leadership Corps
• Coach G Academy | STEP is life Summer Experience
• Code in the Schools | CodeWorks
• Community Law In Action | Summer Leadership Institute
• Corner Team | Summer Champions Club ‘24
• Cultivating & Embracing Change | HBCU Mental Health and Wellness Program
• Dance & Bmore | Voices of Carmen - Camp Carmen
• Dent Education | Bet on Baltimore (BoB)
• Digital Harbor Foundation | Tech Coach Corps - Future of Work
• Downtown Sailing Center | Young Mariners
• Elev8 Baltimore | Elev8 Freedom School
• From Prison Cells to PhD | 2024 Programming
• Full Gospel Fellowship Church of Deliverance | Project Success Youth Place
• Girls Getting Better | Summer Hoop Series Pt 1
• Greenmount East Leadership Project | Summer Hoop Series Pt 1
• Harlem Lacrosse - Baltimore | High School Summer Program
• Harlem Lacrosse - Baltimore | Middle School Summer Program
• Heartsmiles | Success Sessions
• KEYS Empowers, Inc. | The Game of Life
• Let’s Thrive Baltimore | Youth in Action
• Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center | Generation Recharge After School Program (GRASP)
• Living Classrooms Foundation | BEES: Baltimore Environmental Education Superheroes
• Magic Minds | Summer Camp: Rhythm and Reps
• MERIT Health Leadership Academy | Summer Matters at MERIT - STEM Career Readiness
• Middle Grades Partnership | Middle Grades Partnership Summer Programming
• Mindful Mentors | Mindful Mentors Planting Seeds
• MissionFit | Strength Academy
• MOMCares | MOMCares for Young Mothers
• MTM Foundation | Pathways to College and Entrepreneurship
• Natural Born Champions | Camp Champions
• Natural Born Champions | Natural Born Champions Mentorship Pathways
• No Boundaries Coalition | No Boundaries Youth Organizers
• Parks & People | Branches Summer Program 2024
• PeacePlayers Baltimore | Baltimore Summer Leadership Program
• Pennsylvania Ave Neighborhood Association | Pathways to Prosperity: Youth Workforce Empowerment Program
• Port Discovery Children's Museum | Port Discovery: Summery Camp 2024
• R.I.S.E Arts Center of Baltimore | R.I.S.E Performing Arts Camp
• Safe Alternative Foundation for Education | SAFE Camp
• Safe Alternative Foundation for Education | SAFE CTE Camp
• Soccer Without Borders | International Summer Academy
• Springboard Collaborative | Springboard Summer 2024
• Temple X Schools | Baltimore Forest School
• The Be. Org | Be. Virtual
• The Board Room Chess | Summer Enrichment
• The Central Baltimore Partnership | Central Baltimore YouthWorks Collaborative
• The Complete Player Charity | City Girls Lead
• The SEED School of Maryland | 2024 SEED Summer Enrichment Program
• The William J. Watkins Sr. Educational Institute | All This Math
• University of Maryland, Baltimore Foundation | CURE Summer Program
• Village Learning Place | LINK (Let's Invest in Neighborhood Kids) Leaders Summer
• Volo Kids | Summer Sports for Baltimore Youth 2024
• Xaala Mainama Community Development Center | CityBeat Youth Drum Circle: Empowering Roots, Rhythms, and Resiliency (9-12 Application)
• Xaala Mainama Community Development Center | CityBeat Youth Drum Circle: Empowering Roots, Rhythms, and Resiliency (PreK-8 Application)

For the 2024 season, the SFC received 160 grant applications equalling more than $13 million in requests. The SFC is always seeking new funding partners to close the gap between requests and funded opportunities. Organizations interested in joining the SFC should email [email protected].