Formed in 2023, the mission of TUEAP is to identify new/aspiring developers interested in and willing to work in economically disadvantaged communities and help them partner with community-based organizations to accomplish smaller neighborhood-based real estate projects to create wealth and scale their operations/real estate development pipelines.

Working with Baltimore Community Lending (who will serve as TUEAP’s fiscal sponsor until its 501c3 is secured) and local banking/financial partners First National, M&T, and PNC bank, a pipeline of six developers of color and a group of smaller nonprofit community-based organizations have already been identified as initial partners in the effort. This grant provided capacity building support.

UpSurge Baltimore is the outgrowth of an effort begun in 2021 to convene local leaders across the technology and industry sectors and academia to advance specific actionable strategies to nurture, support, attract, and retain more entrepreneurs and startups in Baltimore. Under a unifying theme of “Equitech,” UpSurge now represents a three-year, $17 million effort split between an LLC targeting $11 million in for profit investments and $6 million in start-up/annual operating expenses for the affiliated nonprofit. This grant provided core operating support.

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.