Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative Announces 2024 Grantees

The Bal­ti­more Sum­mer Fund­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tive (SFC) will award more than $4 mil­lion in grants to 70 sum­mer pro­grams geared toward Bal­ti­more youth from low-income households.

Launched in 2014, the SFC pro­vides grant fund­ing to sum­mer pro­grams that sup­port the aca­d­e­m­ic and ear­ly career suc­cess of Baltimore’s young peo­ple. SFC-fund­ed pro­grams help youth con­tin­ue learn­ing over sum­mer break, con­nect young adults to valu­able work expe­ri­ences and enable par­tic­i­pants to devel­op new and exist­ing skills.

The Col­lab­o­ra­tive com­pris­es sev­er­al local insti­tu­tions, including:

• the Annie E. Casey Foundation;
• Bal­ti­more City Pub­lic Schools;
• Bal­ti­more Chil­dren & Youth Fund; and
• The Har­ry and Jeanette Wein­berg Foun­da­tion.

Orga­ni­za­tions Award­ed 2024 Grant Funds

As part of this year’s SFC, the Casey Foun­da­tion will fund grants for:

• Art With a Heart
• Bal­let After Dark
• The Be. Org
• BMore Empow­ered
• Camp Puh’tok
• CASA
• Cen­ter for Tech­nol­o­gy Access and Training
• Code in the Schools
• Cul­ti­vat­ing & Embrac­ing Change Inc.
• Dent Edu­ca­tion
• Dig­i­tal Har­bor Foundation
• Elev8 Bal­ti­more Inc.
• From Prison Cells to Ph.D.
• Green­mount East Lead­er­ship Project
• KEYS Empow­ers
• Mid­dle Grades Partnership
• MOM­Cares
• Nat­ur­al Born Cham­pi­ons Inc.
• No Bound­aries Coali­tion of Cen­tral West Baltimore
• Penn­syl­va­nia Ave Neigh­bor­hood Association
• R.I.S.E Arts Cen­ter of Baltimore
• Safe Alter­na­tive Foun­da­tion for Education
• The SEED School of Maryland

Grant Pri­or­i­ties

In choos­ing its 24 grantees, the Foun­da­tion pri­or­i­tized orga­ni­za­tions led by peo­ple of col­or and those with mis­sions focused on:

• youth with involve­ment in the child wel­fare or juve­nile jus­tice systems;
• LGBTQ youth;
• youth from immi­grant fam­i­lies;
• youth of col­or; and
• youth with disabilities.

“Casey is sup­port­ing some great pro­grams as part of the 2024 Sum­mer Fund­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tive,” says Adri­an McLemore, a pro­gram asso­ciate with the Casey Foun­da­tion’s Bal­ti­more Civic Site. ​“The mix of new and famil­iar ini­tia­tives ensures that youth and young adults will have oppor­tu­ni­ties to thrive this sum­mer while still hav­ing fun.”