Year in Review 2018 fall 2018 A Letter Total Approved Grants FY 2018 From our President and Executive Director Historic Preservation $350,000 Discretionary 3% In these challenging times, it is more important than ever $726,290 are helping to strengthen the local community. We also 5% that we invest in initiatives, people and organizations that Conservation drove by 14 other sites, illustrating for the board how the $603,500 can have a positive impact upon our community. While 4% Foundation impacts many organizations in the community, the headlines of recent years have cast a negative light on and how these organizations reinforce neighborhood stability. some of ’s challenges, the grit and determination of so many in our community give us great hope for the Civic & Culture Health & Human Services $4,340,000 Capacity future. We are privileged to have a front row seat to witness $1,392,000 32% 10% the work of many dedicated citizens and we hope to We expanded our staff capacity this year by adding a continue to support them with strategic grant making. new full-time program officer, Kristen Campbell McGuire. Kristen is also helping the foundation branch out in a new area of capacity—communicating our work more As needs in the Baltimore Metro area evolve, the Community & Economic Development broadly. This is the first annual report that we are sharing Foundation is also evolving. When we reflect on $2,258,880 Introduction FY2018, we look back on the year as one of growth—in 17% with a wider audience and posting on our website. This year focus, learning, capacity building and grant making. we plan to launch an e-newsletter and to regularly post to Education $3,994,000 social media as a way of sharing the Foundation’s interests Building upon the legacy of its founders 29% Focus and impact in the broader community. To learn more about nearly 60 years ago, the France-Merrick the Foundation through the year, you can sign up for the FY18 brought the conclusion of a four-year process newsletter by emailing [email protected] or Foundation strives to improve and enrich of reviewing and refining the funding interests in each of follow us on Facebook, Linked In and Twitter. the quality of life throughout , our giving areas. This process began with a review of our efforts in supporting conservation and then moved Grant Making with a special interest in the Baltimore through a deliberative assessment to refine the focus of metropolitan region. The Foundation invests our grant making in regard to health and human services, that aim to foster mindfulness, collaboration and self- Given our new focus, increased staff capacity, greater community and economic development, civic and culture, agency. With a more strategic focus on career readiness learning and positive investment performance, we have in nonprofit organizations serving the unique historic preservation, and finally, this year, education. education, we funded Baltimore’s Promise Career Pathways been able to increase the number of grants given in FY18. needs of people and places in the region. Demonstration, which also connects to our workforce This year the Foundation awarded 99 new grants totaling As we assessed our approach toward education grant strategy. As we look for better ways to connect K-12 and $12,938,380 through its regular grant process. Paired with making, the Foundation decided to affirm our pre- the post-secondary system, a grant to Bard Early College payments committed in prior years and discretionary The Foundation strives to plant seeds of existing strategy for private schools and to make some is supporting students’ ability to graduate high school with giving, we paid out $10,691,170. We have maintained our substantial changes in our funding of K-12 public and college credit. And lastly, to help students succeed getting low administrative expenses for a foundation of our size, innovation, capacity building and program out-of-school time funding. We refreshed our strategy into and graduating from post-secondary education, we around 1% of total assets, in order to maximize the amount expansion through grants to organizations as it relates to public education, with an emphasis on made our first ever grant to a community college. We and of grant dollars available for investment in the community. Baltimore City Schools and the organizations that work Community College of Baltimore County are hoping to learn that positively affect people and their with schools to positively impact students. Our new from the implementation of some national best practices in As we look to the year ahead and the future, we look communities. The Foundation branches out public education strategy is focused on (1) improved retaining and graduating students through the three-year forward to continuing to grow and learn, with and from literacy as the foundation of all other learning, (2) grant initiative we supported. the community in which we serve. to touch many facets of civic, educational and effective implementation of socio-emotional learning social issues to help grow, strengthen and and trauma interventions in schools and (3) enhanced Learning Sincerely, career readiness education. In this third area, we are support vibrant and healthy communities. hopeful that our efforts will result in more graduates Two years ago, we added two board members, bringing our who possess the academic skills, employability skills, total to eight. At that time, we renewed an effort to learn and technical, job-specific skills necessary to succeed together as a board and our process continues to evolve. in career pathways. Our funding of nonprofits through This year our board toured Highlandtown and Patterson Wally and Amy the Baltimore Summer Funding Collaborative for the Park, where we have funded numerous projects over 30 last few years has reinforced the need for focusing on years that have been mutually reinforcing to neighborhood these areas. revitalization in that area. We were able to see our impact on the growth of the Creative Alliance and see This year we specifically made some grants to new- how investments are making a difference at Patterson to-us organizations in line with the above referenced Park Public Charter School. We also saw how a grant to strategies, such as our literacy grants to the Maryland Bayview’s Care-A-Van has been leveraged to help the Book Bank and Brown Memorial Tutoring, as well as uninsured while other populations are being served grants to eight summer providers of literacy instruction. through the continued use of the old van. Our board tour To support our social-emotional learning goal, we allowed us to see firsthand how the Southeast CDC and its predecessor organizations (that we have also funded) made grants to Thread, Playworks and Holistic Life 1

Focus area GRANTS AWARDED

Archdiocese of Baltimore $500,000 Bard Early College Baltimore $135,000 Construction of a school in West Baltimore, the first Learning Commons space renovations to assist high new Catholic School in Baltimore City in 57 years school students to attain a high school diploma and Education (over two years) an associate’s degree Baltimore's Promise $500,000 Mount St. Joseph High School $125,000 Implementation of the Career Pathways Demonstration to New HVAC system in St. Joseph Hall allowing for The Foundation’s education funding is its help more than 400 Baltimore City high school graduates year round use of facility access workforce training and support (over two years) “We understand that children growing largest area of focus, generally representing Maryland Book Bank $60,000 about 40% of annual grants. The Foundation Thread $500,000 Renovations for new space at the Baltimore Community up in concentrated poverty need more Warehouse, allowing for more literacy resources to supports projects directed toward improving Curriculum and technology to help underperfoming high school students reach academic and personal be collected and distributed to those in need than just improved financial resources educational quality and equity in Baltimore success goals (over four years) St. Francis of Assisi School $60,000 or better classrooms; they need the City public schools with particular focus on Community College $350,000 Renovations to space used by the Baltimore City same unassailable support and deep literacy, social-emotional learning and career- of Baltimore County school as a cafeteria, auditorium and gymnasium readiness. We also support private schools for Scholarship, advising and non-tuition monetary assistance interpersonal bonds that we all need. to support low-income, first generation students complete Play on Purpose $50,000 both capital projects and scholarships. community college in three years through the The Furnish and equip office and programming space Thread builds these bonds for students, for after-school programs France-Merrick Completion Pathway Initiative volunteers and collaborators.” - Thread (over three years) The Foundation also recognizes the importance Playworks Education Energized $50,000 Expand recess training services to reduce bullying of higher education and to this end supports St. Paul's School for Boys $300,000 Campaign support for the new 60,000 sq. ft. high and support social-emotional learning in Baltimore efforts to increase the number of students who school as part of $25 million campaign and Anne Arundel counties can access and complete degree programs. Bishop John T. Walker $250,000 Southwest Baltimore Charter School $50,000 The Foundation also aims to leverage higher School for Boys Renovate the school auditorium, which is used for performances, recreation and community meetings education institutions as community anchors Capital campaign support for expanded facilities, high school placement support and increased development and supports campus initiatives that increase capacity (over three years) Young Audiences of Maryland $50,000 Technology and office equipment for the expansion of access, revitalization, local hiring and partnerships. Goucher College $250,000 summer programs for Baltimore City students shown New Maryland Equine Education Center replacing to improve literacy instruction through arts integration 1950s facilities and allowing for strategic growth of the equine program in partnership with the Maryland Horse Centro SOL at $30,000 Breeders Association Johns Hopkins University Summer Funding Collaborative: Job and career training Baltimore School for the Arts $150,000 for immigrant and refugee youth. Expanded film editing suite and equipment cage for the film program to expose youth to new career City Neighbors Foundation $30,000 $3.9 million Malone Children Memorial Playground at City committed this year opportunities Neighbors providing a play space for the school Loyola Blakefield School $150,000 and neighborhood Construction of a new middle school building Community Law In Action $20,000 Summer Funding Collaborative: Summer Leadership Institute

3 EDUCATION GRANTS CONTINUED SUMMER FUNDING Holistic Life Foundation $20,000 St. Francis Neighborhood Center $15,000 Summer Funding Collaborative: Literacy and arts Summer Funding Collaborative: YouthWorks job Many of our education grants were funded training program programming for neighborhood youth through the Summer Funding Collaborative. Parks & People Foundation $20,000 Baltimore Montessori $10,000 Summer Funding Collaborative: SuperKids Camp for Public Charter School This partnership between public, private and Baltimore City children Summer Funding Collaborative: Montessori Bridge for Young Learners nonprofit organizations supports high-quality Southeast Community $20,000 summer programs that serve low-income youth Development Corporation Baltimore Youth Arts $10,000 Summer Funding Collaborative: Southeast Youth Jobs Summer Funding Collaborative: Arts and in Baltimore City. While retaining individual entrepreneurship program Collaborative priorities, all 13 members of the collaborative Wide Angle Youth Media $20,000 Enoch Pratt Free Library $10,000 share the same goals: reduce summer learning Summer Funding Collaborative: MediaWorks workforce Summer Funding Collaborative: Community Youth development initiative that creates paid media education Corps program loss, give older youth exposure to work and experiences for youth Elev8 Baltimore $10,000 careers, and ensure all children have the Brown Memorial Tutoring Program $19,000 Summer Funding Collaborative: Multi-site literacy chance to reach their full potential. Furniture for newly renovated literacy tutoring space program for Baltimore City children at Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church Intersection of Change $10,000 Believe in Music $15,000 Summer Funding Collaborative: Art @ Work This year, the Foundation committed Summer Funding Collaborative: Music education and neighborhood mural program $350,000 towards the collaborative’s total entrepreneurship training Liberty Elementary School $10,000 of $3.5 million in summer funding. Bon Secours Community Works $15,000 Summer Funding Collaborative: Academy to prevent Summer Funding Collaborative: YouthWorks employment summer learning loss

Child First Authority, Inc. $15,000 Medical Education Resources $10,000 Strategic plan to establish priorities and future goals for Initiative for Teens (MERIT) providing quality out-of-school time programs Summer Funding Collaborative: Health Leadership Academy Civic Works $15,000 Summer Funding Collaborative: Baltimore Conservation Patterson Park Public $10,000 Leadership Corps Charter School Summer Funding Collaborative: Literacy education Code in Schools $15,000 as part of Summer Fun Camp Summer Funding Collaborative: CodeWorks to help high school students learn coding skills and earn Professional Development $10,000 college credit & Training Center Summer Funding Collaborative: Citizenship Law Related Green Street Academy $15,000 Education Program/Baltimore City Law Links Summer Funding Collaborative: Employment and career training for mostly first and second year students Sisters Circle $10,000 Summer Funding Collaborative: Summer Leadership Soccer Without Borders $15,000 Institute Summer Funding Collaborative: Academy to help immigrant and refugee youth gain literacy skills and Friends of Great Kids Farm $7,500 practice soccer Summer Funding Collaborative: YouthWorks Summer Employment

5 Civic & Culture

This is why we supported numerous organiza- Focustions ... area GRANTS AWARDED THE HIPPODROME Hippodrome Foundation $2,000,000 B&O Railroad Museum $50,000 Capital grant toward the renovation of the Bank Pavilion Construction of a new home for the Baltimore City to be a performance space and rental facility Police Mounted Unit Emanating from the vision of Baltimore Civic & (over four years) community leaders 20 years ago, the Hippodrome Maryland Art Place $50,000 American Visionary Art Museum $500,000 Capital improvement funding for the basement Theatre was the centerpiece of a project envisioned Construction of a freight elevator to facilitate event performance art space as a major force in the revitalization of the area Culture production and protect museum floors(over two years) Maryland Citizens for $15,000 and an “anchor of the west side.” The reborn Roca $500,000 the Arts Foundation France-Merrick Performing Arts Center opened The Foundation believes that civic and Launch of an intervention model for very high-risk Website design, social media engagement and increased young men in Baltimore as a means to provide in 2004 to great acclaim. Now, 14 years later, cultural vitality are key components for marketing and brand updates education, work opportunities and cognitive behavioral the center generates more than $25 million in a healthy, livable region. Within the civic supports to young adults involved with the criminal justice system (over four years) economic impact each year. It is ready for arena, priority is placed on projects that expansion into an adjacent building that will reinforce civic pride amongst residents, $375,000 Creation of a new waterplay space as part of the become a new event space and black box theatre. improve livability, promote Baltimore as France-Merrick Foundation Kids Room The Foundation is proud to help ensure a vibrant a strong and vibrant city, and help attract Baltimore Festival of the Arts $250,000 and sustainable future for the center. tourism. Our cultural grants aim to provide Support for Light City, a large-scale festival of experiences that enrich residents’ lives, light, music and ideas (over three years) bring people together, revitalize public $250,000 spaces, help communities thrive and make Campaign support to renovate the museum with new exhibits and remodeled spaces the metropolitan area a desirable place to live. Institute for Islamic, Christian $150,000 & Jewish Studies Continued endowment support for the Roman Catholic Scholar

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company $100,000 Walkover bridge connecting spaces at the CSC Theatre and The Studio in buildings on Calvert and Redwood Streets

Art with a Heart $50,000 Equipment, technology, construction costs and moving $4.3 million expenses associated with office relocation committed this year Baltimore Homecoming $50,000 Program support to attract outside positive attention of and investment in Baltimore

7 Economic and Commu- nity Development FocusThis is why area we supported numerous organiza- GRANTS AWARDED tions ... Y of Central Maryland $500,000 Wide Angle Youth Media $50,000 Renovations to expand and improve the Weinberg Y in One-time support of equipment upgrades for the Waverly with a focus on youth development programming Baltimore Speaks Out program Community space Y of Central Maryland $50,000 United Way of Central Maryland $300,000 Transition grant for the Big Brothers Big Sisters program Commitment to support United Way’s role in the to the Y & Economic community as convener, partner and program creator Power52 breaks the cycle of poverty, Intersection of Change $47,000 in areas of Foundation interest, such as homelessness, unemployment, under employment and education and food security (over three years) Support to purchase a van and supplies for the Strength to Love Farm II program and convert Martha’s Place from incarceration in urban communities Development Bon Secours Community Works $250,000 transitional to permanent supportive housing across the nation through economic Future Baltimore Initiative to develop a community resource center in a former library (over two years) Code in Schools $46,000 empowerment and clean energy access. The Foundation’s funding in this area strengthens Upgrade technology and purchase equipment and furniture Baltimore neighborhoods. We support workforce Habitat for Humanity $250,000 of the Chesapeake Providence Center $44,000 “Power52 will not only give people Installation of an additional greenhouse to increase development efforts that expand training and Expand the construction training program, Habicorps, opportunities, but it will also educate and complete 52 houses (over two years) sales production for the wetlands program skill development, and economic development people so that they can understand the that creates living-wage job opportunities. In American Communities Trust $200,000 Belair-Edison Neighborhoods $35,000 Toward purchase of a permanent office location and importance of energy independence while addition, the Foundation provides stabilization Baltimore Food Hub development project contingent on securing tenants. moving expenses cutting their utility bills.” funding to develop and sustain safe, diverse and Business Volunteers Maryland $25,000 - Ray Lewis, Co-Founder connected communities through planning and Itineris $150,000 Building purchase to increase space and support Technology upgrade to support office operations infrastructure improvements. The Foundation more adults with autism as part of capital campaign KaBOOM! $25,000 hopes to contribute to building community by Loading Dock $100,000 Creation of a new Baltimore Public Housing play space in creating or enhancing programs and spaces that Capital investment to improve the parking lot and South Baltimore support individuals, families and act as stabilizing technology as part of Service Expansion campaign forces in local neighborhoods. Power52 Foundation $75,000 Supply and install a solar energy system for Power House to reduce energy costs and serve as a neighborhood resiliency hub for Baltimore’s first responders

Baltimore Tech/Betamore $50,000 Expansion and customization of education offerings and technology upgrades $2.3 million Jane Addams Resource $50,000 committed this year Corporation – Baltimore Equipment to expand job training programs for unemployed adults and low skilled incumbent workers

9 Focus area GRANTS AWARDED Focus area Focus area

First Fruits Farm $250,000 Purchasing and equipping a new property to enhance the production of donated produce to Health & address food insecurity Conservation Historic The Foundation supports organizations that preserve Institute for Integrative Health $250,000 Capital kitchen renovation project for program space and protect the environment. Funding focuses on Human to allow for nutrition and wellness education improving the ecological health of the Chesapeake Preservation Bay, enhancing connections to the environment The Foundation funds projects that restore and maintain St. Vincent de Paul Society $200,000 through experiential education, and protecting open properties of historic and architectural significance, Renovation and conversion of three projects for 30 space for education and enjoyment. Services units of permanent housing for families in Baltimore primarily in the Baltimore region, but also across City and County GRANTS AWARDED Maryland. We hope that preserved historical assets spur economic development and teach community The Foundation’s grants in this area aim to Westminster Rescue Mission $200,000 University of Maryland $250,000 history. When possible, the Foundation prioritizes Improvements to renovate an outbuilding into a improve health and wellness, increase access to Center for Environmental Science recovery “sober” house projects that positively affect community development care and strengthen healthcare in community Ecological assessment of the Inner Harbor and Patapsco and contribute to environmental sustainability. River Estuary to better understand Baltimore’s estuarine settings. Health funding focuses on prevention Manna House $150,000 Renovate existing space and build a new kitchen, ecosystems and potential impacts of future management GRANTS AWARDED and population health as well as supporting anchor storage area and entrance for better access to food and development decisions (over two years) institutions’ work to contribute to improved and health services Franciscan Friars Conventual $150,000 Mount de Sales Academy $150,000 Restoration of Carrollton Hall as part of a $3.3M neighborhood health and community development. Marian House $150,000 Funding for an ecologically-innovative water management campaign to make the campus more sustainable Human services grants support organizations that Renovations for Independence Place, which provides system as part of campus expansion project supportive housing for homeless women and families Baltimore Lab School $100,000 increase access to food, housing and disability American Chestnut Land Trust $113,000 Capital improvements to the historic Goucher Hall, assistance. Nutrition funding helps ensure people At Jacob’s Well $50,000 Land acquisition and easement to help preserve Holly Hill designed by Stanford White, which now houses a Capital acquisition and renovation to add eight permanent along the Parkers Creek Watershed in Calvert County school for students with learning disabilities will have access to sufficient and healthy food supportive housing units with an emphasis on fresh and local. In addition, Ladew Topiary Gardens $70,000 Evergreen Heritage Center Foundation $50,000 Hearing and Speech Agency $50,000 Restoration support for the Nature Walk, including new Restoration of the Historic Evergreen Barn in Allegany the Foundation funds strategies that effectively Technology and communication upgrades to improve path, observation areas and entrance gate County to provide environmental education move families out of homelessness through service delivery Smithsonian Environmental Research Center $20,500 Historic Sotterley $50,000 placement into permanent supportive housing. Light of Truth Center $50,000 Support for the construction of an education pavilion Repairs to the exterior and interior of Historic Sotterley Renovation of two single family properties into Recovery Visitor Center in St. Mary’s County Residences for women

ShareBaby $30,000 Support build-out costs for warehouse space to enable $1.4 million program to grow to distribute two million essential $604,000 $350,000 committed this year items by 2019 committed this year committed this year

Dyslexia Tutoring Program $12,000 Computers and a server to support program delivery

11 France-Merrick Foundation France-Merrick Foundation Grantmaking Leadership

Priorities Applying to the Foundation Board of Directors Investment Committee

The France-Merrick Foundation concentrates its Organizations should send the Foundation a Letter of President Walter D. Pinkard, Jr. Robert G. Merrick, III grantmaking within the State of Maryland and primarily Inquiry (LOI) containing the following information: Senior Advisor Investment Committee Chairman within the greater Baltimore area. Applicants must • Brief description of organization including mission, Cushman & Wakefield Principal be non-profit organizations holding 501(c)(3) status population served, scope of activities and current Asset Strategy Consultants under the Internal Revenue Code. organizational budget size. • Goals and objectives of the proposed project for Vice Robert G. Merrick, III Michael K. Barry The Foundation favors one-time, project-oriented which funding is sought. President Principal Chief Investment Officer requests that have defined beginnings and endings, • Total cost of the project, funds already committed, Asset Strategy Consultants Georgetown University as opposed to annual giving or ongoing operational the fundraising gap and the amount of the request support. Our funding is aimed at increasing capacity • Timeline over which funding is needed, and overall Kathryn J. Crecelius by making investments in the future positive impact timeline of the project. Former Chief Investment Officer Secretary Robert M. Pinkard of a nonprofit, either through improved quality of Johns Hopkins University Principal programs or expansion of the number of people Letters are accepted on a rolling basis and can be The Pinkard Group served. Funding targets organizations who already addressed to the Executive Director and emailed to Stephon A. Jackson demonstrate the ability to sustain their work and are [email protected]. Vice President looking to the Foundation to provide one-time funding to T. Rowe Price Associates enhance the organization’s ability to fulfill its mission Please visit www.france-merrickfdn.org for more Treasurer Gregory C. Pinkard over time for the benefit of individuals and communities. information. Principal Robert M. Pinkard Pinkard Properties Principal Grants that impact multiple funding areas, as well as The Pinkard Group projects that are able to leverage additional resources, Foundation Staff are especially appealing. Member Juliet A. Eurich Walter D. Pinkard, Jr. Former Executive Director Senior Advisor Amy M. Gross, Executive Director Alvin and Fanny B. Thalheimer Cushman & Wakefield Foundation Rosanne DiFonzo, Investment Administrator Executive Committee Kristen Campbell McGuire, Program Officer Member Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, Ph.D. Robert M. Pinkard, Chairman President Sheree Norton, Grants Administrator University of Maryland, Baltimore County Robert G. Merrick, III Dan Redfield, Business Administrator Walter D. Pinkard, Jr. Elizabeth Perriello Rice, Program Officer Member Jeannie Merrick Maddux Freelance Artist

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