St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center runs six core programs: foreclosure prevention; legal services; homeownership counseling; home sharing; housing development; and rental services. St. Ambrose is one of the more productive nonprofit housing developers in Baltimore and operates a successful program renovating HUD Asset Control Area properties in Belair-Edison for resale to new homeowners. In the wake of national attention on Baltimore’s challenges with vacant properties in 2015, several national housing organizations approached St. Ambrose about developing partnerships. This grant provided general operating support for staff time to develop project ideas, negotiate with potential project funders, and subsidize the overall cost of carrying out new project development.