The Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle (BWGC) at the Baltimore Community Foundation brings together women philanthropists with a common goal: to empower women and their families in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. By pooling and leveraging their enthusiasm, intellectual, and financial resources, BWGC endeavors to bring about change through the power of grant-making. This grant provided support for strategic planning.

UMBC has provided school-time, after-school, and summer enrichment in partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools for over a decade. The Math Summer Program engages students in a five-week program to accelerate math learning and Algebra-readiness. The program began in 2020 at Lakeland and in 2022 at Cherry Hill.

The Edmondson Community Organization (ECO) represents the Midtown-Edmondson communities. Its work is centered in a corridor that is actively planning for Amtrak’s B&P tunnel replacement project, the large scale commercial transit-oriented development (TOD) associated with the new West Baltimore MARC station project, and the forthcoming iteration of the reinvigorated Red Line project. This grant provided core operating support.