Hoffberger: Grant highlights 2006

Highlights of 2007 Grant Awards

Following are brief descriptions of grants (listed by category) that the Hoffberger Foundation awarded in fiscal year 2007. 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.

▪ Arts & Culture


American Visionary Art Museum Baltimore, Maryland
	$100,000 as part of a $500,000 multi-year commitment to support the general operations and museum expansion. The museum 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 Community Development


Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers Baltimore, Maryland
	$20,000 to support the Neighborhoods for All Ages Project, a collaboration which seeks to create a sustainable network of services to support low-income, elderly homeowners in Baltimore City neighborhoods.

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 that reflects pooled funds and collaborative grantmaking by area foundations interested in improving Baltimore’s neighborhoods.

Boys Hope Girls Hope
Baltimore, Maryland

$25,000 as part of a $75,000 multi-year commitment to support Boys Hope Girls Hope, an educationally focused residential program for at-risk youth in Baltimore City who demonstrate exceptional academic potential.

American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore, Maryland

$100,000 as part of a $500,000 multi-year commitment to support the general operations and museum expansion. The museum 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.

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 to develop communities for people in need by building and renovating houses, and creating homeownership opportunities.

Civic Works
Baltimore, Maryland

$7,500 as part of a $15,000 multi-year 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.

Community Law Center
Baltimore, Maryland

$10,000 as part of a $30,000 multi-year commitment to support the Community Law Center’s work in providing legal 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.

Friends of Patterson Park
Baltimore, Maryland

$5,000 to support children events programming in southeast Baltimore’s Patterson Park.

Jewish Funds for Justice
Baltimore, Maryland

$35,000 as part of a $50,000 multi-year commitment to the TZEDEC initiative, an initiative to organize Jewish funding to invest in the revitalization of economically marginalized neighborhoods while connecting it to Jewish service learning.

Legal Aid Bureau
Baltimore, Maryland

$35,000 to support a Legal Aid Bureau initiative aimed at saving homes for at-risk families and seniors.

Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations
Baltimore, Maryland

$20,000 as part of $40,000 multi-year commitment to support Maryland Nonprofits, which provides a wide range of programs and services dedicated to helping nonprofits strengthen their organizations and leverage resources so they are better able to meet their missions.

National Aquarium in Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

$50,000 as part of a $250,000 multi-year capital pledge to construct the Aquarium’s new exhibit, Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes. Access to the interior of the exhibit is by way of the Thunder George Bridge, underwritten by the Hoffberger Foundation. The Aquarium’s capital campaign to expand the facility is intended to increase visitors and membership.

Notre Dame Mission Volunteers
Baltimore, Maryland

$5,000 to support the Notre Dame Mission Volunteers program, which partners with national AmeriCorps volunteers to raise the academic achievement of at risk families while building stronger schools and communities.

Open Society Institute
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.

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 Head Start programs.

Public Justice Center
Baltimore, Maryland

$50,000 as part of a $175,000 multi-year commitment to support the Public Justice Center’s Appellate Advocacy Project. The Project serves as a resource for legal organizations, community organizations, and a national network of poverty and civil rights advocates. This grant is intended to provide appellate expertise to the legal services community in Maryland.

United Way of Central Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland

$50,000 to support the Community Safety Net Initiative. The 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.

▪ Education

Archdiocese of Baltimore, Partners in Excellence
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 nineteen participating parochial schools.

Art on Purpose Baltimore, Maryland
	$5,000 to support Art on Purpose whose mission is to provide art workshops, exhibitions and programs in support of education, social justice and community service.

Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust (B.E.S.T)
Baltimore, Maryland

$10,000 as part of a $120,000 multi-year commitment to provide tuition assistance. B.E.S.T helps promising students with limited financial means to gain access to independent schools in Maryland. Additionally, B.E.S.T seeks to increase the number of African American students attending independent K-12 schools in the Baltimore-metropolitan area in order to increase the racial and economic diversity of those schools.

Baltimore Urban Debate League
Baltimore, Maryland

$25,000 to support the Baltimore Urban Debate League, which enriches the academic experience and overall development of students from Baltimore City’s public middle and high schools through participation in debate-based educational activities.

Children’s Literacy Initiative
Baltimore, Maryland

$20,000 to support the Children’s Literacy Initiative’s University Partnership, a partnership with community groups, the Baltimore City Public School System, and Towson University to address literacy in the Cherry Hill and Morrell Park neighborhoods of Baltimore City.

Echo Hill Outdoor School
Worton, Maryland

$15,000 to provide residential outdoor education programs on the eastern shore of Maryland to underserved Baltimore City school children. These programs are designed to introduce children to the outdoors and to create environmental awareness.

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 in achieving its $4.5 million campaign goal for programming and scholarship endowment. Endowment funding will underwrite the cost of the "Hoffberger Studies" program dedicated to continuing education for clergy and other educators.

Jewish Museum of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland

$15,000 to support the Jewish Museum’s cultural enrichment school programming for students who cannot afford these activities.

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 the college 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".

The Montessori School, Head Start Program
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 thirty-two pre-school aged Head Start children with a five week, five half-day per week Montessori educational experience during the summer.

Project BioEyes
Baltimore, Maryland

$15,000 to support the Baltimore launch of Project BioEyes, which fosters innovative science education for underserved populations through the use of hands-on scientific experiments.

Rebuilding Through Art (RAP)
Baltimore, Maryland

$20,000 to support Rebuilding Through Art (RAP)’s after-school art program at the Lockerman-Bundy Elementary School. RAP is dedicated to neighborhood improvement and engages youth and adults in creative art projects that transform public space and facades in their community.

SEED Foundation
Baltimore, Maryland

$50,000 to support the establishment of the SEED School of Maryland, a public boarding school providing innovative educational opportunities that prepare underserved students for success in college.

St. Frances Academy
Baltimore, Maryland

$25,000 as part of a multi-year $75,000 commitment to support the endowment of forty scholarships at St. Frances Academy, an inner-city Parochial high school in Baltimore.

▪ Health

Arc of Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

$15,000 to support the Arc’s Family Help Fund, which provides financial assistance for families with special needs children.

Dementia/Alzheimer’s Project (MIND at Home)
Baltimore, Maryland

$50,000 as part of a $150,000 multi-year 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 sufferers from dementia to remain in their homes by receiving coordinated services from Associated agencies and other caregivers trained by Hopkins.

The Joseph Richey House
Baltimore, Maryland

$50,000 to support The Joseph Richey Hospice in building Dr. Bob’s Place, a hospice for children.

Mercy Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland

$100,000 as part of a $500,000 multi-year pledge to support the Hoffberger 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.

PACT
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. PACT serves young children with medical and developmental challenges who need the assistance of skilled experienced professionals during their most formative years in order to reach their full potential.

People’s Community Health Centers
Baltimore, Maryland

$58,080 to support the renovation of the People’s Community Health Center, a clinic whose mission is to provide high quality, comprehensive medical, dental and mental health care to all who seek such care, regardless of barriers to care such as ability to pay, insurance status, transportation barriers, and language barriers.

The Shepherd’s Clinic
Baltimore, Maryland

$15,000 as part of a $30,000 multi-year grant to support Shepherd’s Clinic, which provides primary healthcare services to medically uninsured adults in Baltimore.

▪ Israel

Arava Institute
Israel

$15,000 to provide scholarship support for students to attend the Arava Institute program, which works in partnership with the Jewish National Fund to train Israeli and Arab leaders to cooperatively solve the regions environmental challenges.

Hand in Hand
Israel

$25,000 as part of a $75,000 multi-year commitment to support scholarships at Hand in Hand's integrated bilingual and multi-cultural schools serving Jewish and Arab students in three regions of Israel.

Melitz Center
Israel

$25,000 to support the education of immigrant children living in Ashkelon, Baltimore’s sister city. Melitz’s education program supplements academic skills and eases the transition into Israeli society.

Negev Institute for Strategies and Peace Development
Israel

$20,000 to support the Negev Institute for Strategies and Peace Development as it seeks to promote economic development and peace between Jews and Arabs.

PeacePlayers International
Israel

$25,000 as part of a $75,000 multi-year commitment to support PeacePlayers International’s program in Israel and the West Bank. PeacePlayers’ mission is to unite and educate children and their communities through the game of basketball.

Schneider Children’s Medical Center
Israel

$22,500 as part of a $67,500 multi-year 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.

Summit Institute
Israel

$15,000 to support foster care in the city of Ashkelon and the Bedouin people in Southern Israel.

▪ Jewish Community

THE ASSOCIATED
Baltimore, Maryland

$700,000 Annual Campaign and $200,000 Capital Campaign contribution from the Hoffberger Family Fund.

Jewish Day School Scholarships
Baltimore and the Greater Baltimore Area

$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.

Jewish Outreach Institute
Baltimore, Maryland

$10,000 to support an initiative of the Jewish Outreach Institute 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.

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 that reflects pooled funds and collaborative grantmaking by area foundations interested in improving Baltimore’s neighborhoods.

Boys Hope Girls Hope Baltimore, Maryland
	$25,000 as part of a $75,000 multi-year commitment to support Boys Hope Girls Hope, an educationally focused residential program for at-risk youth in Baltimore City who demonstrate exceptional academic potential.

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 to develop communities for people in need by building and renovating houses, and creating homeownership opportunities.

Civic Works Baltimore, Maryland
	$7,500 as part of a $15,000 multi-year 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.

Community Law Center Baltimore, Maryland
	$10,000 as part of a $30,000 multi-year commitment to support the Community Law Center’s work in providing legal 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.

Friends of Patterson Park Baltimore, Maryland
	$5,000 to support children events programming in southeast Baltimore’s Patterson Park.

Jewish Funds for Justice Baltimore, Maryland
	$35,000 as part of a $50,000 multi-year commitment to the TZEDEC initiative, an initiative to organize Jewish funding to invest in the revitalization of economically marginalized neighborhoods while connecting it to Jewish service learning.

Legal Aid Bureau Baltimore, Maryland
	$35,000 to support a Legal Aid Bureau initiative aimed at saving homes for at-risk families and seniors.

Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations Baltimore, Maryland
	$20,000 as part of $40,000 multi-year commitment to support Maryland Nonprofits, which provides a wide range of programs and services dedicated to helping nonprofits strengthen their organizations and leverage resources so they are better able to meet their missions.

National Aquarium in Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland
	$50,000 as part of a $250,000 multi-year capital pledge to construct the Aquarium’s new exhibit, Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes. Access to the interior of the exhibit is by way of the Thunder George Bridge, underwritten by the Hoffberger Foundation. The Aquarium’s capital campaign to expand the facility is intended to increase visitors and membership.

Notre Dame Mission Volunteers Baltimore, Maryland
	$5,000 to support the Notre Dame Mission Volunteers program, which partners with national AmeriCorps volunteers to raise the academic achievement of at risk families while building stronger schools and communities.

Open Society Institute 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.

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 Head Start programs.

Public Justice Center Baltimore, Maryland
	$50,000 as part of a $175,000 multi-year commitment to support the Public Justice Center’s Appellate Advocacy Project. The Project serves as a resource for legal organizations, community organizations, and a national network of poverty and civil rights advocates. This grant is intended to provide appellate expertise to the legal services community in Maryland.

United Way of Central Maryland Baltimore, Maryland
	$50,000 to support the Community Safety Net Initiative. The 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.


Archdiocese of Baltimore, Partners in Excellence 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 nineteen participating parochial schools.

Baltimore Urban Debate League Baltimore, Maryland
	$25,000 to support the Baltimore Urban Debate League, which enriches the academic experience and overall development of students from Baltimore City’s public middle and high schools through participation in debate-based educational activities.

Children’s Literacy Initiative Baltimore, Maryland
	$20,000 to support the Children’s Literacy Initiative’s University Partnership, a partnership with community groups, the Baltimore City Public School System, and Towson University to address literacy in the Cherry Hill and Morrell Park neighborhoods of Baltimore City.

Echo Hill Outdoor School Worton, Maryland
	$15,000 to provide residential outdoor education programs on the eastern shore of Maryland to underserved Baltimore City school children. These programs are designed to introduce children to the outdoors and to create environmental awareness.

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 in achieving its $4.5 million campaign goal for programming and scholarship endowment. Endowment funding will underwrite the cost of the "Hoffberger Studies" program dedicated to continuing education for clergy and other educators.

Jewish Museum of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland
	$15,000 to support the Jewish Museum’s cultural enrichment school programming for students who cannot afford these activities.

The Montessori School, Head Start Program 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 thirty-two pre-school aged Head Start children with a five week, five half-day per week Montessori educational experience during the summer.

Project BioEyes Baltimore, Maryland
	$15,000 to support the Baltimore launch of Project BioEyes, which fosters innovative science education for underserved populations through the use of hands-on scientific experiments.

Rebuilding Through Art (RAP) Baltimore, Maryland
	$20,000 to support Rebuilding Through Art (RAP)’s after-school art program at the Lockerman-Bundy Elementary School. RAP is dedicated to neighborhood improvement and engages youth and adults in creative art projects that transform public space and facades in their community.

SEED Foundation Baltimore, Maryland
	$50,000 to support the establishment of the SEED School of Maryland, a public boarding school providing innovative educational opportunities that prepare underserved students for success in college.

St. Frances Academy Baltimore, Maryland
	$25,000 as part of a multi-year $75,000 commitment to support the endowment of forty scholarships at St. Frances Academy, an inner-city Parochial high school in Baltimore.


Arc of Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland
	$15,000 to support the Arc’s Family Help Fund, which provides financial assistance for families with special needs children.

The Joseph Richey House Baltimore, Maryland
	$50,000 to support The Joseph Richey Hospice in building Dr. Bob’s Place, a hospice for children.

Mercy Medical Center Baltimore, Maryland
	$100,000 as part of a $500,000 multi-year pledge to support the Hoffberger 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.

PACT 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. PACT serves young children with medical and developmental challenges who need the assistance of skilled experienced professionals during their most formative years in order to reach their full potential.