Highlights of 2006 Grant Awards
Following are brief descriptions of grants the Hoffberger Foundation awarded in fiscal year 2006. This list is provided to inform the community, in general, and especially grant seekers about the Hoffberger Foundation’s current interests. For grant seekers, this list is provided to help you determine the appropriateness of submitting a proposal. Please be sure to consider this information carefully and in conjunction with the Hoffberger Foundation’s Grant Guidelines before submitting a proposal.
Baltimore, Maryland
$100,000 as part of a $500,000 multi-year commitment to support the general operations and museum expansion. AVAM is dedicated to presenting visionary art and related lessons about self-generated creativity to the greater-Baltimore community, students and teachers across Maryland as well as museum-goers from around the country and world.
Baltimore, Maryland
$10,000 to support the general operations of Art with a Heart which is dedicated to providing visual art classes to children, at-risk adolescents, adults, and elderly throughout Baltimore City.
Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative
Baltimore, Maryland
$15,000 as part of a $45,000 multi-year commitment to support the Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative (BNC) in continuing its mission to build thriving neighborhoods. The BNC is a project of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers and reflects pooled funds and collaborative grantmaking by area foundations interested in improving Baltimore’s neighborhoods.
Baltimore, Maryland
$5,000 to support the Opera to Go initiative of the Baltimore Opera Company. Opera to Go targets Title I schools in Baltimore City and County, exposing students to alternative music forms in the school environment.
Baltimore, Maryland
$10,000 to support the Baltimore Tennis Patrons after-school and summer program for low income children in Baltimore City. The public tennis program is used as a means to teach life values such as self-esteem, self discipline, health, and respect for diversity.
Baltimore, Maryland
$25,000 (capital) as part of a $100,000 multi-year commitment to support the renovation of the Zoo.
Baltimore, Maryland
$25,000 as part of a $75,000 multi-year commitment to support Boys Hope Girls Hope (BHGH), an educationally focused residential program for at risk youth who demonstrate exceptional academic potential in Baltimore City.
Baltimore, Maryland
$10,000 as part of a $30,000 multi-year commitment to support the Community Law Center’s (CLC) work in providing law services and technical assistance to community based organizations, nonprofits, and small businesses in order to improve the economic viability of low-income communities in Baltimore City.
The Community School
Baltimore, Maryland
$10,000 to support the Community School an alternative education program for youth aged 15-18 in the Remington neighborhood of Baltimore City.
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland
$25,000 to support Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Baltimore in its outreach efforts to attract more volunteers. It expects to recruit and train 65 volunteers over the year.
Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity
Baltimore, Maryland
$5,000 as part of a $15,000 multi-year commitment to support a partnership between high school students at the Park School and Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity.
Children’s Literacy Initiative
Baltimore, Maryland
$25,000 to support the Children’s Literacy Initiative’s (CLI) continued work in the Baltimore County Public School System (BCPSS). In the BCPSS, CLI will continue to train teachers on vocabulary and comprehension instruction. CLI will also assist teachers in the development of lesson plans addressing Maryland’s cross curricular standards.
Baltimore, Maryland
$7,500 as part of a multi-year $15,000 commitment to enable Civic Works to purchase equipment and other supplies needed to install community gardens in the Greenmount, McElderly Park, Sandtown, and Park Heights neighborhoods.
Dementia/Alzheimer’s Project
Baltimore, Maryland
$50,000 as part of a multi-year $150,000 commitment to support the Joint Community-Based Dementia Care Demonstration Project between Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and The Associated. It will be led by acclaimed physician researchers at Hopkins who are dedicated to developing a system of care aimed at prolonging the ability of victims of dementia to remain in their homes by receiving coordinated services from Associated agencies and other caregivers trained by Hopkins.
Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies
Baltimore, Maryland
$50,000 as part of a multi-year $250,000 commitment to support the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies (ICJS) in achieving its $4.5 million campaign goal for programming and scholarship endowment. Endowment funding will underwrite the cost of the "Hoffberger Studies" program which will be dedicated to continuing education for clergy and other educators.
The Independent College Fund of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
$10,000 as part of a $20,000 multi-year commitment to support the Urban Scholars program of the Independent College Fund. It offers low and moderate income minority students from Baltimore City a $10,000 scholarship for each of four years of college.
Israel
$100,000 to support The Associated’s Israel Crisis Relief Fund that is moving children in the north and south out of impacted areas so they can attend “camp” in youth centers throughout the center of the country, provide trauma counseling and relocation for new immigrants in absorption centers in the north, provide aid to victims of terror, and give assistance to Baltimore’s sister city of Ashkelon for identified current and evolving needs.
Israel
$25,000 as part of a multi-year $75,000 commitment to support scholarships at Hand in Hand's integrated bilingual and multi-culture schools serving Jewish and Arab students in three regions of Israel.
Jewish Day School Scholarships
Baltimore, Maryland
$4,000 per school (for a total of $44,000) is awarded to Baltimore area Jewish Day Schools to support scholarships. The schools have met the funding criteria of the Jewish Day School Fund at the The Associated.
Baltimore, Maryland
$10,000 to support an initiative of the Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI) called “The Mothers Circle.” This program is for non-Jewish women married to Jewish men to learn about Jewish heritage, explore Jewish holidays and rituals, and discover ways to enrich their family's Jewish experience – learning how to do so with non-Jewish women in the same situation.
Baltimore, Maryland
$75,000 to match a Johns Hopkins University challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to advance Jewish Studies initiatives at the University’s Sheridan Libraries. Among other things, this initiative seeks to establish a Jewish Studies librarian position and further develop research collections.
The League for People with Disabilities
Baltimore, Maryland
$25,000 to purchase a new “lift” vehicle to use in the transportation of campers to Camp Greentop throughout the year.
Baltimore, Maryland
$10,000 to support a project of the Living Classrooms Foundation called the Girls Empowerment Mission (GEM). GEM is focused on disadvantaged Baltimore County High School girls in grades 9-11 at Chesapeake High School located in Essex which has a high population of minority, at-risk and low income students.
Baltimore, Maryland
$20,000 as part of $60,000 multi-year commitment to support the expansion of the Standards for Excellence (Standards) program which is designed to strengthen individual nonprofit organizations and eventually the nonprofit sector as a whole; increase the public's trust in Maryland's nonprofit organizations and assist nonprofit organizations in acting in an ethical way and accountable manner.
Maryland Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped
Baltimore, Maryland
$20,000 to support the Maryland Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped in serving five hundred disabled people in need of dental care. The Donated Dental Services (DDS) program provides pro bono dental care for citizens who are disabled, cannot afford treatment and are ineligible for public aid.
Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland
$50,000 as part of $500,000 multi-year endowment pledge that will assist in augmenting MICA’s existing scholarship endowment for the Hoffberger School of Painting. This scholarship endowment is used to provide educational access to qualified minority, economically disadvantaged and international candidates. The mission of the Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA is to, "Provide motivated, talented, promising students with the environment to create art without distraction for two-years...under the mentorship of a master artist."
Baltimore, Maryland
$100,000 as part of a $500,000 multi-year pledge to support the Breast Center at Mercy Medical Center. The Center is a part of Mercy's Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Center for Women’s Health and Medicine.
Baltimore, Maryland
$7,500 to support the Montessori Head Start Partnership that is a collaboration between the Montessori School and the St. Vincent de Paul Baltimore City Head Start Center. The partnership provides 32 pre-school aged head start children with a 5 week, 5 half-day per week Montessori educational experience during the summer.
National Aquarium in Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland
$50,000 as part of a $250,000 multi-year capital pledge to support the Aquarium’s capital campaign, Opening Eyes Changing Lives. The campaign is designed to expand facility to house more than two million visitors per year. The capital campaign will also allow for more and better connections between visitors and exhibits as well as enhance and diversify educational opportunities.
Negev Institute for Strategies and Peace Development
Israel
$20,000 to support the Negev Institute for Strategies and Peace Development (NISPED) as it seeks to promote peace and development in Israel.
Baltimore, Maryland
$50,000 as part of a $100,000 multi-year commitment to support the Open Society Institute fellowship program, which awards grants to individuals who wish to employ their professional and educational attainments in service to disadvantaged communities in Baltimore.
Partners in Excellence, Archdiocese of Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland
$25,000 (tuition assistance) as part of a $150,000 multi-year commitment to support the Partners in Excellence initiative that provides low and very low income Baltimore city children with partial scholarships to one of the 19 participating parochial schools.
Baltimore, Maryland
$25,000 as part of a multi-year $50,000 commitment to support PACT in addressing two areas of its campaign: services in the community and transportation.
Pimlico Road Arts and Community Center
Baltimore, Maryland
$50,000 to support the design and construction of the Pimlico Road Arts and Community Center which will be located in Southern Park Heights. The Center will provide high quality space for music instruction, arts and dance, a computer room, the Holy Nativity and St. Johns combined after school programs and Headstart programs.
Baltimore, Maryland
$5,000 to help underwrite the cost of the Ambassador Program; an initiative of Paul’s Place geared toward unemployed and recovering addicts in Southwest Baltimore. The Ambassador Program serves unemployable adults (individuals with physical or mental disabilities that limit their employability), senior citizens, and is open to any community member 18 years of age or older who is willing to volunteer ten hours per week at assigned times and duties.
Baltimore, Maryland
$75,000 as part of a multi-year $175,000 commitment to support the Public Justice Center’s (PJC) Appellate Advocacy project which is designed to advocate for the interests of poor people in ways that other legal organizations are not. The purpose of the project is to influence the development of civil rights and poverty law before state and federal appellate courts.
Baltimore, Maryland
$25,000 as part of a multi-year $75,000 commitment to support the endowment of forty scholarships at St. Frances Academy, which is an inner city, Parochial high school in Baltimore.
Schneider Children’s Medical Center
Israel
$22,500 as part of a multi-year $67,500 commitment to support the Crisis Intervention Program at Schneider Children's Hospital in Israel. The program is designed to benefit thousands of Israeli children who are brought to the emergency room requiring immediate crisis intervention and follow-up treatment as a result of the trauma or stress they have suffered.
Baltimore, Maryland
$20,000 as part of a $40,000 multi-year commitment to support Teach for America in the recruitment, selection, training and placement of teachers in Title I schools (high poverty levels) in the Northwest section of Baltimore City.
Baltimore, Maryland
$700,000 Annual Campaign and $200,000 Capital Campaign contribution from the Hoffberger Family Fund.
United Way of Central Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
$50,000 to support the Community Safety Net initiative. The Community Safety Net Initiative permits the agency to allocate funds equitably, on an annual basis, to more than 100 charities that provide over 200 human service programs in Baltimore City, and the five surrounding counties.
Women’s Law Center of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland
$10,000 as part of a $30,000 multi-year commitment to support the Women’s Law Center, dedicated to advocating for an equal playing field in law for women and children, and its Protective Order initiative. This initiative provides a range of cost-free services to women in need including: full trial preparation and representation, legal advice, and safety planning.