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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 Baltimore’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 Maryland, 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.