Sandtown-Winchester Community Collective (Sandtown Collective) works to improve its neighborhood and the lives of local residents by engaging in community organizing, sponsoring youth-led programming, and conducting community clean ups. Through canvassing and door-to-door outreach, Santown Collective has been identifying and engaging prospective volunteers and growing monthly attendance at regular community meetings. This grant provided support for capacity building.

Since 1984, the Parks & People Foundation has worked to revitalize neighborhoods through hands–on community cleaning and greening activities, the building of public–private partnerships to sustain green spaces and programs that allow children to learn, grow, and explore their natural environment. This grant provided support for strategic planning.

Founded in 2002, Mariposa Child Success Programs Inc. (Mariposa) designs and delivers evidence-based curricula and trains educators and caregivers in brain-based and trauma-informed approaches to social emotional learning. This grant provided support for an independent evaluation of Mariposa’s curricula and training modules.