Thread is focused on engaging the most at-risk high school students by weaving together a network of volunteers who customize support to meet individual student needs over the course of a decade. Thread’s model seeks to radically reconfigure social support structures for students enrolled to establish a wealth of human connection, permanently linked by unconditional love and support. More than 80 percent of Thread’s alumni have completed a post-high school academic or training program within their ten years in Thread. This grant provided core operating support.

Morgan State University serves the community, region, state, nation, and world as an intellectual and creative resource by supporting, empowering and preparing high-quality, diverse graduates to lead the world. This grant supported the Goldseker Fellows Program, which provides financial assistance to graduate students pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees at Morgan State University. Fellows are selected by the University. Up to $20,000 of this grant may be used at the discretion of the President of Morgan for activities designed to improve the University’s relationships and visibility in the Baltimore metropolitan community.

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America’s first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university. This grant funded the continuation of the Goldseker Scholars Program, which provides need-based scholarship awards to undergraduates from Baltimore City Public Schools.