Since 1995, Baltimore Public Markets Corporation (BPMC) has maintained Baltimore City’s historic public market tradition by selling fresh and prepared foods, providing affordable retail opportunities for locally owned businesses, and supporting neighborhoods’ commercial centers. Hollins Market is one of six public markets operated by BPMC, and one of four public markets to recently undergo significant renovations. This grant provided support for first-year operations of The Market at Hollins, a small-scale grocer offering prepared foods, and SNAP-eligible dry goods, pantry staples, and fresh produce to local residents.

The Compound is an artist-run nonprofit located in Central Baltimore that supports individual and collective production within experimental cultural, social, and urban space. Prioritizing affordability and sustainability, the Compound provides quality spaces to Baltimore’s artists and artisans. The complex of spaces that makes up the Compound includes local small businesses, individual artist studios, event spaces, and an experimental communal living space for artist-residents of the Compound. This grant provided core operating support.

BCF is a philanthropic foundation created by and for the people of Greater Baltimore, where many donors join together to make the region they love a better place, today and for future generations. BCF carries out its mission in two primary ways: by building a civic endowment as a permanent source of charitable support for the Baltimore region, and by helping donors plan and carry out their charitable giving. Working in partnership with others across the public, private and nonprofit sectors, BCF brings a consistent voice of leadership to critical civic issues. This grant provided funds to support the Civic Leadership Fund.